Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOANNE HOCKLEY from Felixstowe Ferry booked her place in the match-play stages of the British Women 's Amateur Championship when she handed in a 72 during the second qualifying round at Royal Lytham and St Annes . |
| 2 | Gwendolen is a Jamaican girl who is sexually abused first by an ‘ uncle ’ in Jamaica and then , when she joins her parents in London , by her father . |
| 3 | A MOTHER is living in a nightmare from which her only possible escape is that her tiny daughter may win her fight for life . |
| 4 | She stands upright in her long white cotton nightgown from Laura Ashley , scratches her bottom through the cambric , and yawns . |
| 5 | She would dig and cultivate her plants with great gusto and had one of the finest gardens in the Institute compound . |
| 6 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 7 | Belief in some prancing horned beast who conjured up all the mischief in the world strained her tolerance to the limit . |
| 8 | She might as well have addressed her request to the tablecloth . |
| 9 | He lives her life with her , year by year , seeing her become what she is . |
| 10 | I 'd rather be a paid-up churchgoer with a sense of pride in myself and my family than a part-time schizophrenic who lives her life in a fog of garbled third-hand mysticism and a building that houses goats , chickens and , from the feel of it , fleas like small sharks . |
| 11 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 12 | Fans send her presents of teddy bears and expensive perfume . |
| 13 | Before she had time to think he had wrenched her case from her and , pushing it in front of him , used the sharp ends as a battering ram to force his way through the crowds . |
| 14 | She had a boyfriend on an American station just outside Huntingdon , and it did n't suit her book at all to be shifted . |
| 15 | Like we might buy , my sister is , she loves chocolate , my mother would buy her packet of of Secrets or something , she buy a |
| 16 | Using a heavy Tesco bag to help batter her way through the TV crews and a gaggle of amused onlookers , she reached the National Westminster Bank just after water privatisation 's witching hour of 10am . |
| 17 | Laura , who had a horror of pubs , dedicated her life to improving home comforts . |
| 18 | Mary was married but with her husband 's cooperation dedicated her life to God . |
| 19 | Then she went on and dedicated her song to all those men here tonight who are still hunting , all of those who are unhappy in love , all of those who are putting up with second best , all those who are not getting what they want . |
| 20 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 21 | This is about as convincing as claiming that her signing ‘ clock ’ manifests her mastery of ‘ time ’ . |
| 22 | He bowed over her hand , then dismissed her fears of an imminent French invasion . |
| 23 | He dismissed her apology with a curt wave of his hand . |
| 24 | President Corazon Aquino dismissed her deputy within the Cabinet , Executive Secretary Catalino Macaraig , on Dec. 10 . |
| 25 | But the Stokesley sprinter , whose season has been delayed by the combined effects of study and injury , summarily dismissed her chances of qualifying for a second successive Olympic Games after winning the 200 metres title for the third time in seven years . |
| 26 | He dismissed her accusation with a brief gesture of one hand . |
| 27 | He dismissed her thanks with a wave of the hand . |
| 28 | She is nonetheless scathing of the intellectuals in the Hamburg legal establishment who ‘ did n't raise a finger ’ when the Nazis dismissed her father from his job . |
| 29 | Three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn dismissed her appeal against the tribunal 's finding but varied the sentence to one of suspension for five years . |
| 30 | She saw her tutor 's enquiring look and dismissed her benefactor for the moment . |