Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Oxford police must have interviewed her several times already . |
| 3 | Joy had surrounded her final hours . |
| 4 | No-one had penetrated her proud defences like this since her father . |
| 5 | The chill of fear and loneliness that had penetrated her very bones was suddenly consumed by the fury that engulfed her like a wave . |
| 6 | An eleven year old girl has witnessed her two brothers , who were Roman Catholics , being shot dead in their home by terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | The fact that Marc had registered her exact words seemed to say that they meant something — that he had n't simply dismissed what she had yelled out from the shower , but that he had remembered and , as it seemed now , had brooded over them for some time . |
| 8 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
| 9 | She welcomed her mother 's suggestion of Dudley Poplak , a discreet South African-born interior designer who had furnished her own homes . |
| 10 | A few swift strokes of the comb smoothed her bubbly curls into soft wings which lay neatly against her well-shaped head and feathered down the nape of her neck . |
| 11 | She was very kind to the patients , and for that they would gladly have forgiven her personal idiosyncrasies , if they noticed them , which was unlikely . |
| 12 | Through the mist he could see the vague outlines of the priory church and followed its outline round to the ruined oak stump where Lady Eleanor had received her mysterious messages . |
| 13 | LOUISE STUART faces her first serious test of the summer track season in the Northern Championships at Blackpool this weekend having completed her final exams at Newcastle Polytechnic yesterday . |
| 14 | Her mother had by now recognized her favourite foods and deliberately offered her one new food every day in order to increase the range of foods she would try . |
| 15 | And she has taught her new classmates a few words in Serbo-Croat . |
| 16 | The nuns , Nenna 's nuns , what a very long time ago it seemed , in a class known as plain sewing , had taught her bygone arts , darning , patching , reinforcing collars with tape , which at last found their proper object in Willis 's outmoded garments . |
| 17 | Tucking the little girls up under their light sheets , she could n't prevent tears from coming to her eyes when one of the children placed her thin arms around her neck . |
| 18 | He had prowled contentedly in and out of the vestry and bellroom while she got on with her chores , had watched critically while she had arranged her six daffodils eked out with foliage in the vase at the foot of the Virgin , and had viewed with the bland indifference of childhood Miss Wharton 's frequent genuflections , obviously taking these sudden bobbings to be one more manifestation of the peculiar antics of adults . |
| 19 | She says delays from the Department of Social Security in paying out housing benefit have given her financial problems . |
| 20 | But of course , her father had confused those looks for her , given her hazel eyes and hair whose redness owed more to carrots than claret … |
| 21 | Yet , given her great fears on that score , Rosemary , when she knew full well that Travis was in their flat , came across the corridor for coffee later that night . |
| 22 | The doctor had come and given her two tablets to take , he had said there was n't a thing wrong with he that would n't be wrong with any red-blooded girl who had seen a fatal accident . |
| 23 | And he 'd given her two fivers first . |
| 24 | Rose had already given her two weeks ' salary . |
| 25 | Dr Neil could have given her several answers , beginning with the beautiful hands lying in her lap which had visibly never done a stroke of work in their owner 's life , but said instead , ‘ A strange place for a young lady like yourself to look for it . ’ |
| 26 | I 've given her strict instructions never to do anything like that again ! ’ |
| 27 | Oh Adam 's given her strict instructions as to how to make tea . |
| 28 | I could have strangled her many times ; only the fact that she 's your sister prevented me . ’ |
| 29 | He had barely noticed her raised eyebrows . |
| 30 | By the time they 'd parked the car and were hurrying towards the station platform , the little girl 's enthusiasm had soothed her tattered nerves , and she was really looking forward to their day together in London . |