Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | How lucky she had been to meet Violet , but was n't that the story of her life ? |
| 2 | There had been nothing achieved by the expedition save the coachman 's cold which now threatened to lay low the rest of her staff . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher expressed confidence that she would win and declared again , as she had at the outset , that even if she did not win outright she would continue to a second ballot no matter how narrow the margin of her majority over Heseltine . |
| 4 | Was this the cause of her blindness ? |
| 5 | Was this the reason for her return to Silas ? |
| 6 | As time had gone by , and Constance 's conversation had made clear the depth of her friendship with his great aunt , he had been afraid to tell her , fearing exactly the reaction he had now received . |
| 7 | Needlework and laundrywork provided an effective class and gender strategy , designed to prepared the prostitute for her correct place in the female labour force and to re-educate her into an approved feminine role . |
| 8 | She then kneads it with her mandibles and front legs into a soft pellet about half the size of her head and flies off with it to her building site . |
| 9 | Well it was n't , it was n't that bad but like it was really weird because like you could see like , people like , especially the lads , just sort of looking at you and then like not meaning to be pervy but just like , looking again as if to think why has Emma got a , a extraordinary lump on half the top of her boob , you know ! |
| 10 | She would just lie awake half the night with her conscience pricking guiltily , and that would be a nuisance , because she really needed some sleep . |
| 11 | But there was another woman , at the second table : a woman only half the age of her executively suited escort ; a woman who was having a fairly difficult time by the look of things , earnestly rehearsing a whole chapter of body language with her ringless hands . |
| 12 | Stephen pinched half the slice from her plate . |
| 13 | The widow smiled and unloosed the clasp of her cloak . |
| 14 | She was too good a cook and I was too faithful a disciple of her art Just lounging by our bed-sitter 's fireside was the sweetest of all occupations . |
| 15 | They spent their evenings together in a trattoria on the square beside the Ponte Milvio or down in Trastevere , before a couple of hours at his place , or half a night at her apartment . |
| 16 | Now it 's been found in a river half a mile from her home . |
| 17 | Tell her there will be half a pie for her tea otherwise she do n't get none . |
| 18 | She clutched a black shawl above a patched and shabby skirt , her eyes sunken in her gaunt face , and on an impulse he put half a crown in her hand and hurried away . |
| 19 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 20 | Maureen Gilbert 46 , of Hallam Close , Filey , went missing a year ago just half an hour after her husband Derek , a self employed plasterer , left for work . |
| 21 | I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove . |
| 22 | He felt ashamed of her , and he could not work out why her mother should have such a smile on her face . |
| 23 | She had apparently already put such a proposition to her mother on the telephone . |
| 24 | And with that she turned on him herself and raising up her wings struck him such a blow with her talons that he rolled back out of control in the air , the tops of the pine trees below spinning before his eyes . |
| 25 | Friday had come round so quickly again — such a contrast to her old life when the week had often seemed boringly endless . |
| 26 | She owed that to him at least for having been , over the years , such a disappointment to her father . |
| 27 | She was such a heroine in her own way because it was not possible to give her the attention and comfort she deserved yet she never complained . |
| 28 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |
| 29 | Ann would never have taken such a step of her own accord . |
| 30 | Women may find her image within themselves , or see her reflected in a mythical , historical or living person who carries such a quality in her being . |