Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather be a paid-up churchgoer with a sense of pride in myself and my family than a part-time schizophrenic who lives her life in a fog of garbled third-hand mysticism and a building that houses goats , chickens and , from the feel of it , fleas like small sharks . |
| 2 | He dismissed her apology with a curt wave of his hand . |
| 3 | He dismissed her accusation with a brief gesture of one hand . |
| 4 | He dismissed her thanks with a wave of the hand . |
| 5 | Elaine dismissed her husband with a wave of her hand . |
| 6 | She fears that its plans will confine her sex to a social ghetto |
| 7 | She was not grief-stricken the way she had been when her father died , but sorrow was a weight which kept her from opening her eyes on a world where she would sorely miss his company . |
| 8 | For example , in the British Picture Vocabulary Test , the child is required to point manually or to eye-point to indicate her selection from a set of pictures . |
| 9 | Sapphire is murdered after consummating her relationship with a White student ; in A Taste of Honey , Jimmy is despatched once he has had sexual relations with Jo , never to be seen again ; in Flame in the Streets Gaby Gomez is badly burned ; in the same film Peter Lincoln manages to escape ‘ punishment ’ , other than a humiliating first encounter with his White fiancèe 's father , Jacko , but then the progression of the narrative is frozen before closure . |
| 10 | ACTRESS Britt Ekland is to try her luck as a novelist following the failure of her eight-year marriage to toy boy ‘ Slim ’ Jim McDonnell . |
| 11 | Following an illness , and dismayed at the prospect of remaining a home-bound spinster , she began , when already nearly forty , to travel rough in the then hardly visited Balkans , and she described her experiences in a series of vivid and forthright books . |
| 12 | Taking to Water ( July ) , in which Jeannette Kupfermann described her stay at a thalassotherapy centre , had a huge response . |
| 13 | She described her protest as a " fast to the death " , but abandoned her hunger strike on May 25 after an appeal to desist by Cardinal Jaime Sin , the Archbishop of Manila . |
| 14 | She felt unable to marshal her thoughts into a semblance of logic . |
| 15 | Anna had dropped her voice to a whisper . |
| 16 | Dora jerked her head like a horse shying at a pheasant . |
| 17 | Irina jerked her car to a stop in her reserved bay and hurried up the steps into the main hall . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what I thought , ’ Dana said , mopping her eyes with a corner of the towel . |
| 19 | Many commentators interpreted Aquino 's action as an attempt to revive her reputation as a populist and to distance herself from the charges of nepotism , corruption and incompetence which had been increasingly directed against her government by critics from both the right and the left . |
| 20 | Although she was terribly fond of the children she found that working with them was like banging her head against a brick wall . |
| 21 | Five years later she was to be found lecturing on her expedition to the Gabon , she had climbed Mount Cameroon , and her Travels in West Africa was published to consolidate her reputation as a ‘ fish and fetish ’ expert . |
| 22 | Fran struggled briefly , but soon gave up the uneven match , letting herself rest against his chest while he stroked her hair with a surprisingly gentle hand . |
| 23 | Then he gently stroked her stomach in a circular motion , luxuriating in the feel of her pubic hair brushing the edge of his hand . |
| 24 | She bent her head in a quick , brief nod . |
| 25 | She bunched her fingers into a sharp cone and stabbed above the Daughter 's girdle-line , aiming for the throat , but the Daughter was too fast , and chopped her wrist , deflecting the blow . |
| 26 | Emily Lloyd is charmless as the daughter of Peter Falk 's ageing gangster , though Dianne Wiest has her moments as a fluffy moll with claws of steel . |
| 27 | She would like to qualify as a lawyer , while Lynlea has her eyes on a medical career . |
| 28 | Yet it never entered her head for a moment to think that Prince Charles was remotely interested in romance . |
| 29 | When she meets other animals , walk on and ignore her — as she is timid of strange people , I think this will overrule her aggression towards a strange dog , and she will catch up very quickly . |
| 30 | Whether she was star struck , or simply just ambitious for her daughter , Patsy failed in her primary duty of protecting her daughter from a confused and selfish man . |