Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN academic has been banned from sleeping or eating in her office at Stirling University after being told it was so cluttered with papers and food that it constituted a health and fire hazard . |
| 2 | ‘ She has minimal response to pain and noise , there is little eye movement , she is unable to communicate , she ca n't move her limbs or eat on her own . ’ |
| 3 | ( At Taï , a young chimpanzee will often harass its mother in order to use her tools , to eat her fruit or to sit on her branch . ) |
| 4 | Their case would stand or fall on her reliability . |
| 5 | It was hard to decide if he was laughing at her or impressed by her performance . |
| 6 | Instead of rushing to a telephone box less than 40 yards away or walking to her nearby home , Joanna trudged to the leisure centre . |
| 7 | He walked to his car and did not look back or glance in her direction as he drove quickly out of the drive . |
| 8 | The vigour , sometimes amounting to brutality , with which she utilized her seapower in time of war , by wholesale interference with neutral shipping carrying contraband or trading with her enemies , did much to increase the hostility with which she was now widely regarded . |
| 9 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 10 | It was a matter of debate whether she was a widow or separated from her husband But I was not interested in such things ; the biggest mystery to me was how she ever got involved with a dog like Cedric . |
| 11 | The Court decided that , although as a general rule dismissing a pregnant woman for a reason arising from or related to her pregnancy will result in direct discrimination under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 , this is not an inevitable consequence . |
| 12 | Some described a future Anne unmarried and unhappy , for instance , or told of her helping and subsequently marrying the second-ranked , male student . |
| 13 | She complained that British men must be homosexual not to make a pass at her or look at her legs . |
| 14 | She had the feeling she must either give in to that showy and heady beatification or run for her life . |
| 15 | But retiring is more often a one-sided affair , with a wife still perhaps in part-time employment or used to her own routine during her husband 's working hours . |
| 16 | But it is not yet known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 17 | But because the case was heard in private it is not known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 18 | This can occur at any time but particularly when the student has been observed or supervised in her nursing care . |
| 19 | Katherine knew each of those stones , each of those flowers intimately-so often had she concentrated on them so as not to cry or react to her mother 's jibes . |
| 20 | At least , if she was unhappy , or fretted for her family , she did n't say so . |
| 21 | Her occasional protestations of being moved by Dame Freya 's works or touched by her personality read like sops — a pretence of even-handedness — in a narrative of quiet , relentless aggression . |
| 22 | The rationale of treatment should be explained fully , reassuring the patient that she will not be confined to bed , subjected to high doses of drugs , or isolated from her family and friends . |
| 23 | She could therefore only love her sister more that , when it came to choosing between this most important interview of her career or flying to her husband 's bedside , Cara was n't hesitating to fly to where love and instinct guided . |
| 24 | He could not bear to see the pale cream child tied to her back with his small head bobbing on her shoulder , or bundled to her breast , asleep in satisfaction after food . |
| 25 | Lucy was treating Jay like a delightful new acquaintance she could n't quite place or fit into her life . |
| 26 | Any chance of aid or succour from her brother-in-law , William Charles Titford , would have been swept away by his death in 1828 ; but two years earlier than that , Elizabeth 's name appears in the registers of Shoreditch Workhouse . |
| 27 | But sometimes Creggan and Kraal would ask Minch questions and she would speak of things she knew and wisdom she had taught herself or remembered from her distant past at Callanish . |
| 28 | She did n't like him sitting on her cushions or dirtying her nice clean towels or weeing in her water closet or dripping on her bleached oak vinyl tiled floor . |
| 29 | It was a long while before Mary could forgive her husband 's infidelity , and she had never seen or spoken to her sister since then . |
| 30 | She shut her eyes , unsure if she was trying to blot out the unexpected hunger in his kiss , or opting for her ostrich trick again and trying to pretend this was n't happening to her . |