Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was held up briefly in the final when the in-form Sanchez-Vicario swept to a 4–1 lead ( and deservedly so ) and yet Martina , the grass court player supreme , merely drew on her experience , stepped up a gear , kept her nerve and won 5 games in a row to deflate the Spanish challenge . |
| 2 | the last sixteen days she just lived on her drip . |
| 3 | I humoured the old lady , who soon went on her way . |
| 4 | And Miss Streep duly arrived on her bicycle which she chained confidently to the theatre railings . |
| 5 | Daisy was mildly encouraged that Ricky deliberately sat on her right , on his non-scar side . |
| 6 | In the early evening , Hari restlessly drew on her shawl . |
| 7 | Amnesty International also intervened on her behalf and only days before she was due to leave , she was given a passport . |
| 8 | Afterwards , as her mother got on hands and knees to pick the objects up , Kim repeatedly climbed on her back and insisted she played ‘ horsey ’ . |
| 9 | If she really raced on her bike over the footpath , she might just manage to get to the low bridge before the van reached it . |
| 10 | She had sat down opposite him and immediately started on her inquisition . |
| 11 | The first name on the ‘ 92 list is that of a lady who insisted on coming out in her dressing-gown to rill the boot of the car with bags of glossy paperbacks one freezing February night , and then stood on her doorstep waving till I was out of sight . |
| 12 | She devoured it , not having eaten for twenty-four hours , and then stayed on her cot until Duncan and Myeloski arrived . |
| 13 | She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum . |
| 14 | She twisted her body a little , so that she too lay on her side , facing him now , decreasing the distance between them . |
| 15 | Pauline Leyshon said her clothes were burning and some actually melted on her body . |