Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The princess was taught to curb her natural impetuous temper and to own her mistakes to all she had wronged , regardless of rank . |
| 2 | His words , deliberately intended to curb her growing assurance , struck home . |
| 3 | The mere thought of being confined made her breathless . |
| 4 | A London grandmother was particularly troublesome because of her drinking sprees , but her granddaughter was expected to clean her front doorsteps every Saturday : ‘ the old bugger used to sit at the window and watch me clean 'em . |
| 5 | He had an idea that Dinah might not be permitted to open her own letters , or perhaps would throw them aside if there were too many admirers ; but surely she would take notice of the sketch . |
| 6 | Among friends who had come to wish her further success were Mr Bernard Leser the head of Condé Nast in America , who had just flown in ; Earl and Countess Alexander of Tunis , the Hon. |
| 7 | Although he was still hungry , he decided against asking her for second helpings now that he had forgotten to use her new name at the very first test . |
| 8 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |
| 9 | Her husband , although not a ‘ representative ’ , was expected to join her later in the day . |
| 10 | It was a burning , raking scrutiny , designed to make her aware of his pulsing desire to slake his sexual hunger with her that only needed her nod to unleash itself . |
| 11 | Twenty-two years old , she had already lost count and lost interest in the number of men she had let penetrate her slender frame . |
| 12 | From Hampton Court , I drove back to London , and to the Ritz Hotel for the luncheon that Mr Allan Davis and friends of Miss Evelyn Laye had arranged to celebrate her ninetieth birthday . |
| 13 | But Foggo was clearly not prepared to surrender her national No 1 position without a fight and held on bravely to finish 1.61sec ahead in 8min 53.19sec . |
| 14 | Dear God , what the devil had his poor ghost done to excite her vicious enmity ? |
| 15 | Having decided to start her own nursery playgroup , Clare sold her engagement ring , a flashy marquise diamond , in order to buy the lease of the first floor of a big Edwardian house in Pimlico : it contained a ballroom , a small rear room , and a bathroom . |
| 16 | The leitmotifs for Giselle created by Adam and Perrot can be said to disclose her emotional development . |
| 17 | She had decided to overcome her natural ‘ laziness ’ and keep a diary on the fourth day of George IV 's reign , 1 February 1820 . |
| 18 | Like Banquo 's ghost her figure would be seen haunting her old stamping ground . |
| 19 | Joyce wisely decided to take her three smallest charges around the block to get away from the trauma , and to give herself chance to adjust to the idea . |
| 20 | Charity sensed an easy victory and prepared to close her front door . |
| 21 | Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party . |
| 22 | Following Macha 's own death when giving birth to twins , she grew to prefer the fields of war and death and would be heard celebrating her morbid surroundings in a howling ecstasy of grief . |
| 23 | SOCIETY party organiser Lady Elizabeth Anson , a cousin of the Queen , has had to curb her lavish lifestyle after losing millions in the Lloyd 's insurance crash . |
| 24 | She felt bad enough as it was , so it just was n't the moment to remember how he 'd ‘ overlooked ’ having agreed to see her last Friday ! |
| 25 | Without this ambition she probably would not have dared to paint her allegorical decorations , such as ‘ The Zone of Love ’ ( c.1930 ) and ‘ The Zone of hate ’ ( 1914–15 ) at the Tate Gallery , which are not only large in size but in concept too . |
| 26 | We are glad that is able to be with us twice this season , and that has agreed to continue her regular music lessons for the early birds as well as taking a number of sessions. , and make up the rest of the team and we all look forward to working with you . |
| 27 | I would have liked to have got to know her better but I drank too much . |
| 28 | Yolande , his queen , who could not even be bothered to inspect her dead husband 's corpse but keeps herself closeted at Kinghorn , claiming she is pregnant ? |
| 29 | Alison 's general fitness helped keep her alive . |
| 30 | She 'd got to paddle her own canoe , as she always had done . |