Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next to him , I saw my mum push her grey hair from her temples . |
| 2 | How naïve of her to let Roman de Sciorto 's powerful charm override her normal caution ! |
| 3 | She crept quietly down to find out what was happening and heard her 5-year-old girl tell her 3-year-old brother to open the fridge and get out some chocolate . |
| 4 | Potiphar 's wife , likewise , had made an article of clothing serve her own purpose , in that case to convince her husband that Joseph had tried to seduce her . |
| 5 | Greetings from the Queen Mother , the Archbishop of Canterbury and a visit from the Mayor of Darlington helped a former teacher celebrate her 107th birthday this week . |
| 6 | Mandy was peering through the binoculars with the intensity of an army scout who had just discovered the enemy , and with a defeated sigh Charity let her own gaze drift in the same direction . |
| 7 | ‘ Would n't your … your wife do her own cooking ? ’ |
| 8 | In this case , the hand is simply an autoscope — a ‘ stageprop ’ — used to help a medium contact her familiar spirit . |
| 9 | I read Jemima Harrison 's feature abut her horrific experience at the hands of a brutal rapist with tears in my eyes . |
| 10 | ‘ How can the Prime Minister achieve her national targets when US corporate plans move in a diametrically opposite direction to compound Britain 's trade problems . |
| 11 | She was not accustomed to ask questions , and obeyed ; Dinah accompanied her , saw her seated in the chair , the anaesthetic given , and the extraction begun ; then for the first time let her own mind admit the possibility that Paul 's illness might have some such origin , that she herself had in that case been the wife of a syphilitic for years , and might have caught it ; that she might lose her face or her mind ; that Robin had inherited it ; and now — |
| 12 | LAST week on a bus I saw a young mother spank her little boy when he said the F-word . |
| 13 | It would probably be more fun than listening to some self-deceiving gilgul spin her miserable yam . |
| 14 | Erm does er Martin 's mother own her own home ? |