Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His widow , Jeanne , held the Joinvilles ' English lands but , like Aymer de Valence , agreed to renounce her claim to a part of the Lusignan inheritance ( 1308–10 ) , although she held four Poitevin and Limousin lordships in reversion until her death in April 1323 . |
| 2 | This was an obvious choice made to evade her concern . |
| 3 | Ms Alexander , calling on Mrs Bottomley to meet a delegation of parents , said : ‘ Although it was Beverly Allitt who committed these crimes , my concern is that the hospital management failed to spot her character defects , failed to supervise her and failed to act on numerous clues , and delayed inexcusably before calling in the police . |
| 4 | The woman looked around the yard as if she expected to see her daughter emerge from one of the doors or from behind a pile of rubbish . |
| 5 | Mary Moore , 17 , of Chatham , Kent , was starved of oxygen after doctors failed to diagnose her presence in the womb . |
| 6 | Miss Norma Scott , aged 23 , failed to report her mother 's death because she did not want the council to discover the squalid conditions at her home in Bilsmoor Avenue , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 7 | On Remembrance Sunday last year strangers came up to Irene in the street and asked to shake her hand . |
| 8 | She sought to hide her nervousness with levity . |
| 9 | That er that 's got the greengrocers , she got to know her daughter 's phone number and phoned round for her |
| 10 | Her friends in the West were told that she would be beaten until they stopped publicizing her case . |
| 11 | Mortified , Maudie tried to silence her son . |
| 12 | Robyn swallowed , tried to steady her voice . |
| 13 | He also promised to promote her son , then studying at Cambridge , to appropriate benefices and to make other benefactions . |
| 14 | He also promised to promote her son , then studying at Cambridge , to appropriate benefices and to make other benefactions . |
| 15 | There was a smell of lemon like bath-salts and she could hear the slap , slap , slap of flesh against flesh as somebody tried to stimulate her circulation . |
| 16 | Donna tried to quicken her pace , hoping the conductor would do likewise . |
| 17 | A woman 's laughter rang out and Caroline flushed and tried to quicken her step , but the man beside her would not match it . |
| 18 | Smiling to herself , she listened to the hissed shushing that ensued as Mrs B. tried to impart her news . |
| 19 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 20 | She bent to retrieve her bag from where it had fallen under the seat and saw the parcel which made her heart sink . |
| 21 | Over breakfast on the day following Nora 's departure , Louise tried to encourage her niece . |
| 22 | Conscious that her feet were bare and her ankles in full view , she constantly tried to adjust her skirt to cover more of her ankles and yet keep the material out of the water . |
| 23 | Sometimes he tried to catch her style in scraps of speech that he wrote in a notebook , because she had often told him to listen to the way strangers talked and to keep a record of conversations overheard in the Underground . |
| 24 | During a lull , when for once nothing seemed to have fallen under the machine , she tried to catch her attention . |
| 25 | She tried to shake her head , but found she was pressed so hard against the stack behind her that movement was impossible . |
| 26 | Sophie said shortly , ‘ I 'm sure she will , ’ then relapsed into silence and tried to hide her apprehension as she thought of the task that lay ahead . |
| 27 | She blinked and tried to hide her longing for him . |
| 28 | He rose to his feet , making it clear the question was rhetorical , as Gina , feeling as humiliated as if he had actually slapped her face , tried to hide her chagrin by swallowing the remains of her coffee . |
| 29 | Breeze tried to hide her dismay . |
| 30 | She tried to hide her disappointment . |