Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt regret undulate through her system as the hot sweet stuff soaked into her cells and the ethereal stars of meanings left her farther and farther behind . |
| 2 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 3 | These rooms housed two family heirlooms ; a tilting-top circular oak table , standing on a pillar with three splayed legs , made by my great-grandfather prior to his wedding , and a patchwork quilt made by Gran Tapper in preparation for her marriage . |
| 4 | In 1951 came the excitement of the MEdaus ' visit ; the next year Hilda became the Society 's first reassurer ; then in preparation for her move to Weston-Super-Mare in 1961 , she took the leaders ' training . |
| 5 | ROYAL Mint worker Alan Meredith gave his wife fake bank notes for her shopping . |
| 6 | She glanced through Nina 's notes for her Editor 's piece at the front of the magazine and since it was by no means complete , jotted down some further ideas . |
| 7 | Q2 appears to be a fast yacht for her waterline length , close hauled and off the wind |
| 8 | He paused to chat with 15-year-old High School pupil Charlotte Blair about her school 's forthcoming dance before heading into the Caird Hall . |
| 9 | A wash basin neatly boxed in , a big fitted wardrobe with even a rail for her shoes in it . |
| 10 | He had wrapped her in a blanket off her bed and made her more coffee . |
| 11 | My wife began , I know not whether by design or chance , to enquire what she should do , if I should by any accident die , to which I did give her some slight answer , but shall make good use of it to bring myself to some settlement for her sake , by making a will as soon as I can . ‘ |
| 12 | What Margaret had n't known were the twin reasons for her decision to immerse herself in work : her need to occupy each waking moment with creative thought so that she had no time to dwell on Marcus 's sudden vitriolic departure from her life , and the struggle for economic survival which was facing the advertising agency where she was employed . |
| 13 | She will give reasons for her decision in public on Monday . |
| 14 | Noele Gordon says she does not know the reasons for her dismissal . |
| 15 | One of the reasons for her unpopularity could be because right now she — and only she — has the full confidence of Kurt Cobain , the man without whom Nirvana ca n't function . |
| 16 | It seems impossible to pinpoint the reasons for her success ; in many ways she defies normal marathon logic . |
| 17 | A subsequent search and investigation of her papers , such as they were , revealed a very large cargo of brandy in the hold , damning correspondence with the ships ' agent in Belgium , and some unconvincing reasons for her change of destination from Sweden to Spain . |
| 18 | Julia insisted the reviews and subsequent calls for changes from the BBC hierarchy were not the prime reasons for her departure after six months . |
| 19 | No , not at all , and then , even in her confused state , her mind shied away from the reasons for her distaste , and she found herself saying even through her pain and shock , ‘ I will not think about that , I will not , ’ and so saying she stopped struggling and sank back into oblivion once more . |
| 20 | The reasons for her popularity however owed little to her musical or thespian talents . |
| 21 | In 1585 , Lambarde wrote a long letter to Lord Burghley stating reasons for her Majesty to proceed with speed in the defense of the Low Countries . |
| 22 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 23 | Associated reasons for her death were the severe injuries to her nose and mouth , which was broken and swollen , the multiple attempts that had taken place to strangle her and the fact that she also had a large quantity of alcohol in her body about six times the legal level for drivers . |
| 24 | The reasons for her loss of popularity is not hard to find . |
| 25 | In a verse autobiography which survives in two manuscripts , she characterizes herself as ‘ Fidelia ’ , and the political and theological reasons for her conversion are given in powerful Drydenesque polemic . |
| 26 | As she stepped away from the wardrobe she felt the moisture between her legs . |
| 27 | Carolyn Henderson signs off her diary on an optimistic note for his future . |
| 28 | The 1990s provide a great opportunity for Her Majesty 's Government to demonstrate to our Community partners the validity of the new hybrid approach that the Government have pioneered . |
| 29 | Jane had indeed been hinting at the opportunity for her husband 's murder , but she could not admit as much . |
| 30 | She felt this would make her ‘ singled out ’ , so she preferred to take on similar clerical work doing the accounts for her father 's farming business . |