Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] her [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Someone points her to an unimportant stool in a far comer .
2 Therapist Julia Blackburn 's heart sinks when someone visits her at The Maidenhead Natural Therapy Clinic and says , ‘ I 've tried a grapefruit diet , a pineapple diet , a very low-calorie diet , and now I 've come to see whether hypnotherapy might work . ’
3 The posting , which places her in command of some 12,000 soldiers across four counties , makes her the first woman brigadier to be appointed to a command role .
4 Whilst the pert , Californian sexuality of Baywatch bimbos seems to be aimed at the heart of adolescent lust , Schiffer possesses a vital ambiguity within her features and her poise which recreates her as a story waiting to be told , as opposed to a fantasy waiting to be fulfilled .
5 And before long Mala was actually responding to some of my witticisms with that flashing smile which alters her from being pretty in to being staggeringly beautiful .
6 CROWDS are flocking to see a painting of the Queen which shows her with grey hairs , worry lines and crows ' feet .
7 She describes her readers ' profession as ‘ dynamic and exciting ’ , all of which presents her with the problem of writing content erudite yet lively , weighty but not pompous .
8 Not a full-time neglect , but one which sets her as a decoration on the perimeter of his life as a busy executive setting up a new venture .
9 None of the kids know who the hell she is , which pisses her off no end , but she does n't visit much . ’
10 The continuing emphasis on family relationships may well affect the way Japan copes with the rapid ageing of the population which faces her over the next three decades .
11 Everyone admires her for working so hard , for thrashing herself relentlessly to entertain the troops and keep the fans happy .
12 If she has lost her partner to another woman , it will be assumed that she must be more beautiful , more clever , more sexy : in fact she wants her to be .
13 There , she is befriended by Stoney , a sexy rock ‘ n ’ roller who rescues her from a world of LSD that she has dropped into .
14 Never before has a member of the Royal Family stepped so far out of line and the Queen is not the only one who blames her for many of the misfortunes which have befallen the House of Windsor this year .
15 A presentation was made by Dr. Alan Wilson , who succeeds her as chairman .
16 But she 's secretly ambivalent about her friends and an open breach looms when she 's drawn to charismatic outsider J.D. who seduces her into an apparently humorous plan of attack .
17 A drug specialist service works out a withdrawal programme with her GP who introduces her to a support group and individual counselling .
18 3 She breaks her X block defence , once the fist is out of harm 's way .
19 My daughter wo n't let go of my wife 's hand when she takes her to school .
20 TENSE , WHITE-knuckle narco drama starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as a rookie cop and Jason Patric as the seasoned , streetwise superior who takes her under his wing and into a maelstrom of danger and addiction .
21 I had to find her a flat , move her in , go to the Electricity Board , and then her husband Monica 's one of those who need a mother , someone who takes her on An idea came into Alice 's head of such beautiful and apt simplicity that she began laughing quietly to herself .
22 Yes , it was true a woman must marry any man who asks her on Remembering Night — by order of the Star Council .
23 She carries her in a sling on her back .
24 It can be very nice for an older woman to have a partner who treats her as an equal , ’ says Dr Tysoe .
25 Anatole France , more effusive , likened it to a woman who ‘ is so beautiful , so proud , so modest , so tough , so touching , so voluptuous , so chaste , so noble , so familiar , so crazy , and so good that one loves her with all one 's soul , and one is never tempted to be unfaithful to her . ’
26 But one of them wants my daughter to die , and one wants her to be free . ’
27 In a towering rage , her orders her to be tortured ; unbowed and defiant , she walks towards the red-hot furnace upstage , as the curtain falls .
28 That 's why she wo n't move back in with him , cos she says there 's too much stuff there reminds him reminds her of her his ma or your ma .
29 Not many women reach her years and have as much — for everything he can imagine her wanting he hastens to provide ; and it is bestowed as if she were a young and lovely creature at her first ball , and when he helps her down the stairs or into a taxi — for she is getting frail — he turns her into Gloriana .
30 Moving from her external trappings to her internal structure , he represents her as a sort of wooden skeleton .
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