Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] her [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the increasing employment of women in the growing sector of food , drink and tobacco manufacture by the end of the century , and even the dramatic growth in the number of women commercial clerks ( 4,467 in Edinburgh by 1911 , compared to only 366 in 1881 ) did little to alter the fact that in Scotland generally ( perhaps rather more than England in the same period ) there was a very clear division of the labour market and a de facto segregation of " men 's work " from " women 's work " , which would face any girl looking for her first job . |
| 2 | Rita 's teaching experience has been enormously full and varied , including recreational classes ranging from her first class of East-enders at Plaistow to her university class at Newcastle 20 years later , courses for schoolchildren , for Civil Defence trainees and for physiotherapy students ( only this year , at the Sports Medicine exhibition , physiotherapists came up to the Medau stand to say that they had been taught Medau by Rita Quick ) , and work with the mentally ill and disabled . |
| 3 | A Cardiff woman , aged 35 in 1939 , suffered from decayed teeth , bronchitis every winter and a prolapsed uterus dating from her second pregnancy , yet she did not consider herself ill . |
| 4 | Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary : |
| 5 | In her admittedly bland , yet rather touching view of the Queen Mother , Alison Watt included her trademark , a lone tea-cup , which brought forth the scorn of critics like Brian Sewell , who called it ‘ a hideous jumble ’ , making the Queen Mother look like ‘ an ancient pensioner waiting for her 100th birthday telegram from the Queen ’ . |
| 6 | Having passed the equivalent of the first MD examination , the universities could hardly turn her away , though places were made conditional on her waiting for her eighteenth birthday before going up . |
| 7 | On Saturday and Sunday , however , Sheppard will be concentrating on making a good start to the long-course season , and improving upon her seventh place in the sprint freestyle Grand Prix category . |
| 8 | Elaine giggled again , a schoolgirl going on her first date . |
| 9 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 10 | She was nervous and excited all at once just as if she was a young girl going to her first ball . ’ |
| 11 | With a brief wave Lindsey hurried along the corridor towards the consulting-room , where she sat at the desk , taking several deep breaths to compose herself before calling for her first patient . |
| 12 | I can tell Fräulein Silber that I 'll be staying with her next week then ? ’ |
| 13 | He paused in his work to stare at what Dolly was doing to her first potato . |
| 14 | ‘ I will explain it to you presently , ’ said the Reverend gentleman , with a harassed glance over his shoulder to where Theda stood glaring at her second visitor . |
| 15 | I was talking about her last week when our Queen came to visit me Elizabeth , with her white painted face , black teeth and red wig . |
| 16 | At sixteen , having taken her Higher School Certificate , she was already preparing for her first MD examination . |
| 17 | If he had n't posted bail for her she would now be preparing for her first night in jail . |
| 18 | So he , he , as I was talking to her last night on the phone the front door bell 's going and it 's our Fred from next door right looking after her and bringing forms for her to fill in to get dial-a-ride . |
| 19 | Now in her seventies and embarking on her fiftieth novel , she revels in the peace of the countryside . |
| 20 | ‘ You were not thinking about her last night , petite , ’ he taunted . |
| 21 | When Ruth climbed into her bed that night Miss Beard was packing for her next day 's departure and she was far more talkative than usual , regaling Ruth with the names and pedigrees of notables with whom she might be privileged to breathe the same air . |
| 22 | She knew he was referring to her last meeting with Jake and that explosive love scene in the drawing-room , only the sketchiest version of which he 'd been privy to . |
| 23 | A nurse working in her first ward is going to need a very different experience from a senior student preparing for her final examination . |
| 24 | In real life Britt is starring in her first pantomime role as the Genie in Aladdin at the Birmingham Hippodrome . |
| 25 | Not content with writing for magazines Vanessa is currently working on her first novel , a humorous look at xxxxx xxxxx . |