Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOANNE HOCKLEY from Felixstowe Ferry booked her place in the match-play stages of the British Women 's Amateur Championship when she handed in a 72 during the second qualifying round at Royal Lytham and St Annes . |
| 2 | She stands upright in her long white cotton nightgown from Laura Ashley , scratches her bottom through the cambric , and yawns . |
| 3 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 4 | Belief in some prancing horned beast who conjured up all the mischief in the world strained her tolerance to the limit . |
| 5 | She might as well have addressed her request to the tablecloth . |
| 6 | Using a heavy Tesco bag to help batter her way through the TV crews and a gaggle of amused onlookers , she reached the National Westminster Bank just after water privatisation 's witching hour of 10am . |
| 7 | President Corazon Aquino dismissed her deputy within the Cabinet , Executive Secretary Catalino Macaraig , on Dec. 10 . |
| 8 | Three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn dismissed her appeal against the tribunal 's finding but varied the sentence to one of suspension for five years . |
| 9 | She saw her tutor 's enquiring look and dismissed her benefactor for the moment . |
| 10 | Ms Siobhan Fahey ( see below ) has been explaining her emigration to the south of France . |
| 11 | In turn , this is likely to produce a commitment from her to do the utmost to meet her obligations to the job . |
| 12 | The likelihood of Britain having to meet her obligations in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula increased in step with the raucousness of Radio Cairo 's ‘ The Voice of the Arabs ’ , adjuring all true followers of Islam to oust every vestige of European colonialism from their lands . |
| 13 | Agnes pushed Jessie towards the basin , hissing , ‘ Stay there ! ’ then hurried out of the room to meet her mother in the corridor , the while calling , ‘ I 'm coming . |
| 14 | ‘ To meet her couturier at the Hilton . |
| 15 | He had asked Christina to attend this meeting too , saying he 'd value her opinion on the revised pool plans which Paul was bringing in . |
| 16 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 17 | She retained her faculties until the day she died . |
| 18 | He did not deny her assertion but smiled contentedly as Constance drew her dish from the oven . |
| 19 | Rows of simple wooden benches drew her gaze towards the altar , where candles burned beside a tall , plain wooden crucifix . |
| 20 | As she drew her finger along the initials , her stomach clenched and her eyes misted . |
| 21 | Thérèse drew her forefinger across the cool iron and traced a zigzag . |
| 22 | The snorting of a horse drew her attention to the right , and she saw Scathach 's stolen mount , roughly tethered . |
| 23 | When she was about to move forward though , ready to go up to that front door and ring the bell , some sound drew her attention to the corner of the house . |
| 24 | If you think I will respect her honour to the point of releasing her , you much mistake the matter ! ’ |
| 25 | She did not resist , but narrowed her eyes at the children . |
| 26 | It was still early , as she could tell from the light filtering through her curtains , and she narrowed her eyes at the sight of a cross Dana , who was obviously prepared to shake her again . |
| 27 | The girl in the Chinese house-coat narrowed her eyes upon the central figure in the tableau before her , and the supple lines of her face sharpened into crystal , and lost their smiling gaiety . |
| 28 | She found herself hurrying unnecessarily , weaving her way through the groups of people that drifted along the narrow paths , side-stepping the large and opulent prams that were moored to benches where smug mothers sat knitting and staring , dodging the children who chased each other in and out of the grown-ups ' legs . |
| 29 | Fran hurried across the street , weaving her way between the busy traffic towards the underground car park favoured by the staff at the radio station . |
| 30 | It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped . |