Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snoopy the donkey was left without quarters and paid several unsuspecting guests a visit in a attempt to re-occupy her old home . |
| 2 | It was a pleasure to wear her former clothes again ; fashions had changed so little that Selene had contrived very well . |
| 3 | LIZ McCOLGAN will play ‘ mind games ’ tonight in a bid to drive her main rivals for the 10,000 metres gold crazy . |
| 4 | A SECRET exorcism took place at Princess Diana 's ancestral home in a bid to save her dying father , The People can reveal . |
| 5 | Twelfth-century romances make it plain that for a noblewoman to suckle her own child implied a quite exceptional degree of love . |
| 6 | It would be a delight to have her bright spirit about the place . ’ |
| 7 | She made threats like : ‘ If you love me , you wo n't leave me here ’ as her father gently explained the benefits of attending a school which offered ballet , swimming , riding and a place to keep her beloved Peanuts , her guinea pig . |
| 8 | She wore a corset to support her broken body , and she lived to be only 47 . |
| 9 | A middle-aged man recalled his feelings of being ‘ the only 12-year-old queer in Great Britain ’ and a girl confided a desire to snog her best friend . |
| 10 | In the rear of their hut his wife was bending over a bowl of water , naked to the waist , washing herself , and she snatched up a towel to cover her bare breasts when she heard Loc hiss a sudden warning . |
| 11 | In 1976 Charles , then 12 , spelled out his feelings by sending Raine a ‘ vile ’ letter while Diana encouraged a schoolfriend to write her prospective stepmother a poison pen letter . |
| 12 | Her mother leaves her one boliviano ( 40 cents ) a day to feed her five brothers and sisters . |
| 13 | Since an average-sized woman would be eating 2,000–2,300 calories a day to maintain her normal weight , the reduction should result in a loss of about 2lb a week . |
| 14 | A SMART sales rep persuaded a thief to return her stolen car by calling him on her mobile phone . |
| 15 | But the little dog I went , I took a friend to collect her little dog from the vet it 's had a double hernia , has n't it , double hernia , it , it had a tremendous operation dear little thing , but she said he had a wart under he 's eye and on it 's own accord it dried up and dropped off . |
| 16 | So that each member of staff got a chance to give her own opinion , the staff were interviewed individually . |
| 17 | This way , everyone — including the other mums — has a chance to forget her bad behaviour , and you 'll break the habit of aggression that your child might have been getting into early . |
| 18 | She was n't going to risk being thrashed again in conversation , not yet , not until she 'd had a chance to recharge her worn batteries . |
| 19 | Yearning for a drink to ease her parched throat , Polly moistened her lips with the tip of her tongue . |
| 20 | A woman accused of hiring a hitman to murder her former boyfriend has denied that she wanted him killed . |
| 21 | In addition , clothes must help a woman to fulfil her special roles . |
| 22 | On the opening night of a tour to support her new album Mir Mamma , there were first night nerves floating around on stage , but the performance did n't suffer and ranks as the best of the year . |
| 23 | He put out a hand to smooth her untidy hair . |
| 24 | Only when she stretched out a hand to replace her own receiver did Fabia realise that she was shaking . |
| 25 | Janet Prescott wanted to create a garden to compliment her beautiful home . |
| 26 | ALISON Streeter , 28 , of Dover , set a new women 's world record yesterday when she braved a thunderstorm to complete her 20th Channel swim . |
| 27 | In 1894 she was in a position to build her own home at Munstead Wood and it was Lutyens , sharing her feelings for the Surrey vernacular and the arts and crafts lifestyle , who designed it for her . |
| 28 | Mrs Linley , who has waited more than a year to swap her previous house in Trafford Close for a larger property , feared she might have to replace the lock herself . |
| 29 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 30 | Would the promise of a complete stranger to pay a mother to maintain her illegitimate child be binding on the promisor ? |