Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was awoken , what seemed only minutes later , by a heavy weight suddenly landing on her chest . |
| 2 | Her father , Stefano , who had listed himself as joint coach , is now once more directing her training on court , while Laurie Schuett , a trainer from the Palm Beach Sports Institute , Florida , has been drafted in to work on her fitness . |
| 3 | She was held up briefly in the final when the in-form Sanchez-Vicario swept to a 4–1 lead ( and deservedly so ) and yet Martina , the grass court player supreme , merely drew on her experience , stepped up a gear , kept her nerve and won 5 games in a row to deflate the Spanish challenge . |
| 4 | Anyway , I 'm only passing on her message . |
| 5 | For a time DeVore simply watched her , following her every movement with the hidden cameras , switching from screen to screen , zooming in to focus on her face or watching her from the far side of the room . |
| 6 | How could she say , politely , that she had better calls on her time and money than to devote either to mendicant little talents ? |
| 7 | Moving with a superb masculine grace which suggested the muscular co-ordination of a regular sportsman , Rune side-stepped her , blocking her way , his hand moving swiftly to fasten on her arm . |
| 8 | Shelley suddenly swung on her heel and ran down towards her jeep , her breath coming in searing sobs as she ran . |
| 9 | She hurtled over cliffs in flaming cars or was brutally murdered on her way to the dry cleaners . |
| 10 | Distraught Sarah Miles was forced to wait twenty minutes for a rival bus — just days after another girl the same age was brutally raped on her way to school in Essex . |
| 11 | the last sixteen days she just lived on her drip . |
| 12 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 13 | A hostess in tight teeshirt and jeans lingers only long enough to assure Kate discreetly with her eyes that she is not poaching on her territory , smiles velvetly at Jeremy , brings them their drinks . |
| 14 | BARBARA Bush seems hurt and angry that the American voters have finally turned on her husband . |
| 15 | is risk management assistant at Lower Brook Street , and will soon become on her marriage to systems analyst , on . |
| 16 | Romantic attachments did not feature on her agenda . |
| 17 | Mrs Dibble experienced Lena 's generosity when the ribber attachment she had bought from a mail order company would not work on her machine . |
| 18 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 19 | Dressed with extreme casualness himself in trainers and jeans , he ignored her outfit and she was left feeling uncomfortably in the wrong , almost as if he was doing her a favour by not commenting on her appearance . |
| 20 | A little further away was a young woman who had just arrived on her horse , with her maid on foot . |
| 21 | The grey eyes flicked over the curves of her body , and finally rested on her face . |
| 22 | This may say something about Bridget Freemantle , that she did not stand on her dignity in her friendship with the poet , even though she came from a more genteel background , and was about the age of Leapor 's parents . |
| 23 | Not contrived on her part at all . |
| 24 | I humoured the old lady , who soon went on her way . |
| 25 | She often works up to 16 hours a day and says that her role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor does not intrude on her research . |
| 26 | The Chief Engineer , was on the dawn watch and shook me with a cup of tea at daybreak saying , " Hey Ron , I think that boat we wanted has just passed on her way into Poole . " |
| 27 | ‘ It 's Loretta Lawson , ’ she said lightly , in case the messenger had not passed on her name . |
| 28 | Mrs Bennet had hurried away to check on her house but was soon back . |
| 29 | Only the highest quality product wins the approval of quality controller pictured with assistant ( soon to become on her marriage to fiancé ) . |
| 30 | And Miss Streep duly arrived on her bicycle which she chained confidently to the theatre railings . |