Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minutes earlier , one of the girls had claimed her 64-year-old grandfather had abused her . |
| 2 | Though back was hardly the word since she had dropped her English origins , as so many other things , along the littered roadway of her life . |
| 3 | The Oxford police must have interviewed her several times already . |
| 4 | Joy had surrounded her final hours . |
| 5 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 6 | Under the Conservatives , Britain has regained her rightful influence in the world . |
| 7 | She , on the other hand , having finally regained her own life and independence after years of child-rearing , wanted to turn her attention to her own needs . |
| 8 | His cool request bruised her very soul . |
| 9 | And without Maurice , Shirley , two months ago , probably would n't have won her first honour . |
| 10 | The British Medical Journal ( June '90 ) reports that Miss Pauline Bousquet , an Obstetrician who supports natural childbirth at St. Thomas ' Hospital , London has won her 11 year battle to clear her name on charges of professional incompetence brought by male colleagues . |
| 11 | In a minute , they climbed into the big bed , Jessica having discarded her blue shirt , and cuddled to each other . |
| 12 | Why she should have discarded her confident pose of earlier in the evening he could not understand . |
| 13 | A knife wound had severed her jugular vein and her jaw was broken from a punch or a kick , the jury was told . |
| 14 | She has boldly paraded her stocky figure at charity fashion shows and at one time was famous for wielding equally chunky Havana cigars . |
| 15 | Given another chance , she would n't have let her stupid pride or injured dignity become a barrier between them . |
| 16 | ‘ That idiot Amanda ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ has let her long hair grow even longer during the hols and her mother has plaited it into pigtails . |
| 17 | She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all . |
| 18 | Thirty-five years old , she stood only five feet five and had let her dark hair grow long to change her appearance . |
| 19 | It seemed there was no love for the boy in this house , and though Sarah could hardly believe it , Maggie had let her own well-being be bought at Patrick 's expense . |
| 20 | She had lain with Maggie beside the swimming pool and had let her whole body soak up the sun . |
| 21 | And , of course , the fact that Jeanette Winterson had picked her own novel as her ‘ Book of the Year ’ had to be dragged up again . |
| 22 | The last few years Sarah had practically suffocated her only daughter . |
| 23 | The overweight 45year-old was believed to have suffocated her 65-year-old victim during a furious row . |
| 24 | Travis dumped the firewood he had collected and eyed her dishevelled figure with a vague twist of his lips . |
| 25 | Kate had enjoyed her late lunch with Patrick Kelly very much . |
| 26 | And the glint in his eye as he had enjoyed her earlier discomfiture convinced her he would not miss such an opportunity to embarrass her further . |
| 27 | She would have enjoyed her little trip to London . ’ |
| 28 | Natalie is dying from a rare form of cancer that has attacked her nervous system and is spreading to her bones . |
| 29 | Such a different walk from the day she arrived and had carried her own bag into the house . |
| 30 | No-one had penetrated her proud defences like this since her father . |