Example sentences of "[vb -s] her [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we saw in chapter two , the number and variety of messages with which the main character is bombarded causes her to reflect on the role they play in her daily life . |
| 2 | She is still haunted by the grief of her husband 's death and this causes her to shrink into her own world of deception . |
| 3 | They both want to own their loved ones and have their complete faithfulness , but Gatsby wants to earn Daisy 's respect and wants her to choose for herself to belong to him only . |
| 4 | ‘ Loulou wants her to go with him , ’ said Jeannine . |
| 5 | Rachel cheers me up by saying she was leaving anyhow , and if he wants her to pay for the night then she will and to hell with it . |
| 6 | Bathsheba stands framed and illuminated by lamplight in the window as Gabriel , outside with the men , accompanies her singing on the flute , and Boldwood , to her left within the room , hums the bass line . |
| 7 | She has a highly interesting job which allows her to remain in close contact with patient care . |
| 8 | A three-and-a-halfoctave range allows her to move from a fire-and-brimstone holler to a murmur to a speech in tongues . |
| 9 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 10 | The crooked tycoon who plunged overboard from his yacht a year ago assigned his wife a sub-lease which allows her to live in part of the Victorian mansion regardless of the impending sale of the 15 acre estate . |
| 11 | Hussein in The Languages of Love is a Muslim , yet it is he who reveals to Julia the beauty of genuine love expressed in honest language which leads her to convert to Catholicism . |
| 12 | I sees her get to the door and open it . |
| 13 | MORGAN FAIRCHILD : Ex-star of Flamingo Road whose latest role sees her guesting alongside the Franks in their latest video . |
| 14 | Mira falls asleep and dreams luridly about Celia whose father keeps her locked in a room in a castle , and will not feed her . |
| 15 | The small Year Niner , who did not even realise that there were taps in room 19 , never mind streams , is a little interested by this offer but explains that her Mum never lets her drink the water at school and always provides her with a carton of fruit juice which keeps her going through the day . |
| 16 | She suffers from arthritis in her hip which keeps her confined to her home in the town of Maesteg . |
| 17 | In both novels the heroine undertakes a search for her identity that requires her to navigate between the attractions of two men who represent two different attitudes to life . |
| 18 | He takes her to live in the Valley of Paradise , where all her desires are met except one , which is to see the face of her husband . |
| 19 | Hears her talking about Angy and is madly jealous ? |
| 20 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 21 | Hannah is obviously a natural musician , although the aforementioned modesty forbids her to agree with that assessment But as a child she quickly learned to play both piano and organ with none of the pain and stress often endured by most youngsters , even those with natural skills . |
| 22 | Equity treats her as if she was the unmarried owner of it ; it lets her dispose of it as she pleases in her lifetime , it lets her leave it by will , it even lets her make contracts which can be enforced against it , and against it only . |
| 23 | Our author , entirely uninfluenced by the dismissive judgements of her distinguished compatriots Jacques Monod and Francois Jacob , hankers after evidence that lends colour to the possibility in principle of an imprinting of somatic characteristics upon the genome , believing in particular that the comparatively recent discovery of the possibility of mapping RNA upon DNA ( ’ reverse transcription ’ ) entitles her to think in terms of ‘ reverse translation ’ — that is a mapping of amino acid into nucleotide sequences . |
| 24 | He asks her to go to a doctor to be tested for syphilis . |
| 25 | As they approach the valley overlooked by the Mountain of God , he asks her to accept from him the gift of a necklace . |
| 26 | The pronouncement of big statements is anathema to Juliana because she feels her point of view changes from time to time and she 's afraid of saying too much in case she alienates people , but she does admit to finding life in America ‘ scary ’ at the moment . |
| 27 | Later , in the interplay of presence and absence , the lover expresses her yearning for her absent lover : |
| 28 | In Eliza 's fourth letter home to her mother ( the third was lost ) in which she again expresses her yearning for the children , she also describes her developing attachment to the Franklins , and her husband 's first significant expedition under their auspices : |
| 29 | Rosemary now combines her writing with a catering business specialising in small dinner parties called ‘ Book the Cook ’ and her successful specialist delicatessen ‘ The Cook 's Counter ’ in Arundel , West Sussex . |
| 30 | Her release sends her soaring in grands jetés en avant through the magic garden . |