Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] who [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
| 2 | More recently , in November 1982 BBC2 showed the Alan Bennett play ‘ Our Winnie ’ , a story about a mother of a mentally handicapped teenage girl who takes her daughter to a cemetery to visit the grave of her husband . |
| 3 | I had my first client within days , an old lady who wanted her ceiling painted and the walls papered . |
| 4 | THE story of Kelly Good , the 11-year-old girl who planned her own funeral when her heart and lung transplant failed , moved me to tears . |
| 5 | HAVING taken her revenge on Sue Wright , the English girl who beat her last year , world champion Susan Devoy of New Zealand will be challenged by Cassie Jackman , England 's No 5 and world junior champion , in the semi-finals of the Hi-Tec British Open Championships , at Wembley , today . |
| 6 | Weary not only with Stephen , but also , perhaps even more , with this lady who sinks her teeth into empire and will not let go . |
| 7 | Here was another person who knew her father better than she did , a person who was pointing it out with little subtlety . |
| 8 | It follows the case of a forty two year old woman who broke her neck and was lucky not to be paralysed . |
| 9 | A young German student who finishes her school studies in June this year , is anxious to come to England as an au-pair for six months or a year . |
| 10 | It had been hidden by the mother , a 16-year-old pupil who kept her pregnancy secret even from her parents . |
| 11 | The top breeder who left her sheep to starve . |
| 12 | Who was he , this man who knew her name , who got up from a collision that should have killed him outright , and still managed to outrun a healthy man ? |
| 13 | Her body was a new one under his sensual caresses , reborn for this man who held her heart . |
| 14 | Old Man with a Child has a little girl facing a seated old man who holds her hands , and in Old Man Holding an Infant the tiny baby is being cradled by a bald old man with bushy white side-whiskers . |
| 15 | A TEENAGE mother who stabbed her daughter to death after giving birth because she was too terrified to seek help , walked free from a court yesterday . |
| 16 | A TEENAGE drink-driver who killed her boyfriend and best friend escaped jail yesterday after a plea by one victim 's mother . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't remember the small dark girl who had her baby only minutes after you , that your aunt also delivered ? ’ |
| 20 | She will play a bored wife who scandalises her village in the 1920s by having a passionate love affair with a young pianist . |
| 21 | The modern equivalent of Mary Queen of Scots might well be the unsuccessful businesswoman who owes her position to her family , and therefore profoundly irritates women who are achieving success — against the natural order of things . |
| 22 | Above all , she had been mistreated , a sad mother who opened her arms to him . |
| 23 | As far as Sarah was concerned Charles was her domain at that time and trespassers were not welcome by the sparky redhead who applied her competitive instincts to the men in her life . |
| 24 | Possibly her father had earlier taken her up into the workings to show her where he was working ; even so it would have been an apprehensive little girl who made her way along that long tunnel . |
| 25 | BEREAVED parents Roy and Linda Grainger are to set up a support group as a tribute to their little girl who lost her battle against brain cancer . |
| 26 | BEREAVED parents Roy and Linda Grainger are to set up a brain tumour association as a tribute to their little girl who lost her battle against cancer . |
| 27 | Helen was a determined little girl who bore her illness with great courage . |
| 28 | ‘ She is simply a normal balanced youngster who knows her own mind and goes her own way ’ Bellamy writes . |
| 29 | Magistrates used the in loco parentis provision of the Criminal Justice Act to impel the authority to compensate the 78-year-old woman who had her bag snatched by the youth . |
| 30 | AUDREY Segal was a remarkable woman who overcame her disabilities — she was confined to a wheelchair for 23 years after contracting a virus in Morocco — to invent and develop careers education in this country , and to remain its foremost exponent for more than 20 years . |