Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them turns her tired beam on us . |
| 2 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 3 | I met her last year , you know . ’ |
| 4 | I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property . |
| 5 | I found her calm assumption that I needed cheering up restful after my mother 's blind denials . |
| 6 | ‘ From your conversation with Nina , can I assume that Jennifer told you why I visited her last night ? ’ |
| 7 | Mind I 'll tell you honest she asked , fat lady this take your troubles to her I forget her bleeding name . |
| 8 | So I phoned her last Nancy phoned me last Friday afternoon before she went on holiday to tell me , and I phoned I was n't sure whether just to sort of play it low key or then I thought , Well I know I really should just give here a wee ring . |
| 9 | No , I phoned her last night , she . |
| 10 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 11 | I mimicked her formal tone . |
| 12 | I told her next door you 'd be coming , but I did n't think you 'd be so long about it . |
| 13 | some little bits round the fence first then I put her ordinary food on her hut and do you know that little old beggar was |
| 14 | I stroke her blonde hair . |
| 15 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 16 | I hid her precious sleeping pills for two days till she signed the form , and we ate for a while . |
| 17 | For the years from the fourth to the tenth I assess her net earnings at twelve thousand three hundred pounds and award the sum of thirty six thousand nine hundred pounds on a multiplier of three . |
| 18 | For the third period in general management for the rest of her working life , I assess her annual salary at fifteen thousand nine hundred pounds net , to which I apply a multiplier of twelve to reach the figure of one hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred pounds . |
| 19 | I poured her neat tequila which she swilled greedily . |
| 20 | I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too . |
| 21 | I remember her very words . |
| 22 | I followed her spindly legs issuing from the bunched-up clothing up and down and along , in and out and under ; squirting , rubbing , shining ; kneeling , crawling , climbing ; gasping , panting , grunting . |
| 23 | ‘ I heard her dying screams . |
| 24 | I flew her three times straight off , and then returned her to the aviary . |
| 25 | She 's all of five feet five but I suppose her slim build gives the impression of being petite … |
| 26 | I watched her knotted calves rise and fall below her heavy , woollen dress . |
| 27 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ She did n't want it coloured or layered , but I felt her original style was too long and dragged her down . ’ |
| 29 | Then I saw her toothless gums . |
| 30 | Her large black hat covered most of her face , but when she lifted her head , I saw her dark eyes . |