Example sentences of "[prep] her [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young woman seemed to know what she was talking about , and Shelley suddenly felt sorry for her , in spite of her flashing Spanish beauty . |
| 2 | They did n't like the idea of her taking this trip . |
| 3 | Judy was throwing a ball to Mandy Maddison , who was learning to catch a ball with the left hand as part of her Keep Fit Challenge . |
| 4 | ‘ There was no question of her getting preferential treatment because she is the Secretary of State 's mother . |
| 5 | He titillated himself with thoughts of her applying that cruelty to him . |
| 6 | But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned . |
| 7 | LITTLE Laura Davies , who is critically ill following rejection of her transplanted small intestine , was last night facing a massive new operation , to replace her entire digestive system . |
| 8 | For she was pleased , just as she always was when people pointed out how much she looked like her adored older brother . |
| 9 | It would be just like her to expect some recompense for whoever caused the crash . |
| 10 | But the pressure did n't help , and nor did the night air , nor any of the great machinery of circumstance that had , without her realising it , been combining against her to produce this moment . |
| 11 | I may plea with her to spend more time with me , but finally she chooses . |
| 12 | It 's the trend which has seen Martina Navratilova arrange her playing schedule around selected tournaments compatible with her receiving minimal strain on her knees and back . |
| 13 | Lucy went — and as she walked back to the office she wondered what had got into her to cause such unruliness of her tongue and to bring her claws to the surface . |
| 14 | Although in her writing this objection is expressed in literary , not architectural , terms , it chimes exactly with Sir John Soane 's criticism of NeoGothic : ‘ Irregularity is … too generally admitted . ’ |
| 15 | Her teeth caught in her trembling lower lip for a moment . |
| 16 | ‘ I ought to haff got to my tree by now , ’ she told herself presently , in her lilting Welsh voice . |
| 17 | His long , inexplicable silence had resulted in her feeling such misery that she was finding it difficult to eat or sleep . |
| 18 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 19 | Abruptly , unexpectedly the anger simmering inside her reached boiling point . |
| 20 | Ember would n't even tell her what from , but she could sense through the flux of data that came from her paling blue awareness that the others had something planned for her , something that she did n't want . |
| 21 | However , if your baby is a picky eater and you 're worried about her getting enough iron , there 's still no need to change to follow-on milk . |
| 22 | Something on the local news about her poking some television woman in the eye , to say nothing of her dancing the night away with John Major . |
| 23 | The police are very unwilling to interfere in family matters and apparently when she threatened to go to the police whatever he told her he would say to them if she did report her daughter missing convinced her it would be useless for her to take such action . |
| 24 | How terrible it must be for her to attend this service for Mrs Wright whose baby had survived and while the Padre was speaking the Collector accompanied his words with a silent , sympathetic prayer for Mrs Bennett : " O God , whose ways are hidden and thy works most wonderful , who makest nothing in vain , and lovest all that thou hast made , Comfort this thy servant whose heart is sore smitten and oppressed … " but the rest of the prayer was no longer in his mind , stolen no doubt by the foxes of despair that continued to raid his beliefs … in any case , it faded into a mournful reverie in which he sought an explanation for the death of Mrs Bennett 's child . |
| 25 | Having been to a coeducational school , she did not find men a novelty , and in theory ought to have been able to discriminate better than Liz ( who endured some fairly dreadful experimental evenings in her search for entertainment ) , but her natural kindness made it almost impossible for her to refuse any overture , however offensive , however louche . |
| 26 | Why had she felt so — so vulnerable , so edgy with him , that , when Cara was so desperate for her to do that interview , she had by her uppity manner just about said goodbye to all chance of that . |
| 27 | It was OK for her to do this kind of thing when in a mediumistic trance , but this was n't quite that , was it ? |
| 28 | When her father died it had been necessary for her to do some kind of work and the training in librarianship had seemed the most suitable . |
| 29 | What probably happened was that she suddenly decided the time was right for her to do some publicity and she had something to talk about , her book , Elizabeth Takes off . |
| 30 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |