Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Justifying her decision to bar the return of the former president 's body for burial , Mrs Aquino told judges and legal workers that there was ‘ a clear and present danger of the ambition of some to destabilise the government … ’ |
| 2 | A technical flaw in her papers invalidated her nomination , but the fact that the returning officer was prepared to accept her candidature ended the controversy about women 's eligibility . |
| 3 | The trial judge found against the wife on her contention that the husband acted as the bank 's agent to obtain her attendance to sign the charge , but made no finding whether the husband had exerted undue influence upon her . |
| 4 | The President underlined her determination to pursue the coup plotters by naming a former police chief , Alfredo Lim , as the new director of a greatly strengthened National Bureau of Investigation . |
| 5 | Julia bent her head to conceal the tears which she could no longer restrain . |
| 6 | And with that vague promise , she bent her head to study the plans . |
| 7 | Tess helped her mother move the big bed against the church wall . |
| 8 | In 1864 the family moved to St Leonards , where Florence helped her mother visiting the sick . |
| 9 | In the boathouse , she helped her father tie the boat down to the rock . |
| 10 | She clenched her jaw to kill the sultry languor that was stealing over her at the sight of his thick lashes lying in two black arcs on his gilded cheekbones . |
| 11 | The aims of St Bridget in founding her order concentrate the cultural significance of this increasingly high-profile female piety in the Middle Ages . |
| 12 | Piper O'Rourke used her hand to shield the beam of her torch as she crept along the darkened corridors of Belial Base towards the main airlock . |
| 13 | Joan Halton used her husband to express the emotional greed of which she was so frightened in herself . |
| 14 | Meredith lowered her head to hide the fact that she was having to swallow away the dryness in her throat . |
| 15 | She entered upon the slow crucifixion of seeing her son take the lonely , sad and inevitable road to his cross . |
| 16 | She had blackened her body to signal the blackening of her spirit . |
| 17 | London was her kingdom and she did n't want her sister taking the spotlight away from her . |
| 18 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |
| 19 | All the girls opened their grammar books at the page Mademoiselle commanded then Mary-Lou found she had her English grammar instead of her French one so she reopened her desk to get the right book . |
| 20 | After being cook on the last Whitbread she announced her intention to enter the next Whitbread in her own yacht , with an all women crew . |
| 21 | Kathleen flushed and was angry with herself for it and for allowing her sister to get the better of her again . |
| 22 | After thought , she asked her mother to bring the remaining Potters — Bill and Frederica — to Christmas dinner in the cottage . |
| 23 | Rachel even thought of going down to Phoebe 's bed room and using her phone to reassure the outside world , and protect themselves from its invasion . |
| 24 | In 1979 she made a new will ; after making changes to some specific bequests , she again appointed her husband to receive the income from her father 's estate . |
| 25 | Her time of 31.15sec puts her in today 's final , helping her club maintain the pressure on Portsmouth Northsea , the defending champions . |
| 26 | Helen , the second daughter , had left the Wimbledon school when she was sixteen and was at home helping her mother to run the house and , as his fatal illness developed , to assist in nursing her father , to whom she was particularly close . |
| 27 | She was pleased to see that the 460 uses unleaded fuel , helping her bid to escape the city smoke . |
| 28 | She espied her daughter rounding the corner from Berkeley Square . |
| 29 | He saw her raise her arm to touch the corner of her mouth with her handkerchief , and when she turned her head the features were blurred like a lump of clay when the wet cloth is removed . |
| 30 | His mother , Jean , had paid £30 at a charity auction to enable her son to visit the quarry . |