Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But an even greater cause for resentment is that she may feel guilty about meeting her friends or pursuing her usual weekday activities unless her partner is also busy . |
| 2 | Annunziata looked in to Julia 's room at fairly frequent intervals to turn her pillows or sponge her hot face , but would not let her try to talk . |
| 3 | Although in each one Ayesha is engaged in military as well as emotional conflicts , the sequence of events is suspended on endless dialogue as Ayesha defines or defends her amorphous philosophy . |
| 4 | All that she could identify as remaining of herself was the Jew ; she would never leave unpaid or transfer her spiritual account , if for no other reason than that payment safeguarded what little survived of her identity . |
| 5 | At first she identified herself by initials alone , styling herself a ‘ minister or servant of the Gospel ’ , and she did not indicate her gender or give her full name until 1651 . |
| 6 | Mrs O'Brien here at her home in Slough , was told by her husband that the loan back in nineteen eighty seven was only for sixty thousand pounds , the bank did n't correct this or give her independent advice . |
| 7 | I had to give up my All or Nothing scenario , in which my child either remains completely untouched by drugs or ends her short life with a needle in her arm . |
| 8 | Attempts to develop a peinture feminine , on the lines of the écriture feminine proposed by Hélène Cixous ( whose rhapsodic feminism has had much greater impact on the Aglophone world than on her own French audience ) , led to works which sought to represent the very evanescence , immateriality , and ordinariness of women 's existential condition and past works , as in Bobby Baker 's performance art , in which she makes cakes or reproduces her daily kitchen routines , or , Susan Hiller 's cool , barometrically precise account of her own pregnancy , in the graphic work , ‘ Ten Months ’ . |
| 9 | Yesterday , as they had chatted , the model had been continually fussing with her mane of black curls , or admiring her long finger nails , or smoothing down the skirt of her grey suede suit . |
| 10 | For example , it is very important for a wife who is also a busy mother to learn to speak the local language , but she may have no time for sitting at a desk and making her own drills or doing her own analysis . |
| 11 | For the female this means cutting or tying her fallopian tubes . |
| 12 | The surgeon apparently did not listen to his patient or respect her bodily integrity . |
| 13 | Sexual intercourse which is forced by a threat to strangle the victim or to beat her senseless ranks only as a Category 3 offence if no weapon is used . |
| 14 | In the starlight , her sister 's colourless face seemed itself a pale round wafer of a moon , her expression , the anxious brows rising to meet each other , mimicked the moon 's own self-dramatising look of melancholy ; Caterina felt like snapping her fingers in front of her sister 's nose , or pinching her fat ribs hard , to wake her from her indulged state , but she restrained herself , and instead , in the most solicitous accents she could muster , coaxed Rosa into telling her the matter . |
| 15 | This can be understood to mean that Vietnam is not prepared to renounce or imperil her close ties with the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | At school the ideal of womanhood was based on the assumptions of a different social class : woman 's life was service , the dispensation of charity , whether she was married and dependent , or earned her own living . |
| 17 | or watching her own belly grow |
| 18 | Or had her initial fears been merely a result of the disorder of mind induced by her very apparent hunger ? |
| 19 | Could he give her the best of food or pay for a doctor if she fell sick or buy her fine clothes or anythin' she fancies ? |
| 20 | Nor has her consumptive step-mother , Marmeladov 's wife , endlessly busy with children and no-home . |
| 21 | Nor dreamed her light words echoed on the ear |
| 22 | But Cooper 's figures also possess a larger than life boldness due not so much to childlike innocence but to the kind of confidence we imagine Eve and Adam had before the Fall , However , she is not confronting us with an easily gained optimism nor do her disembodied heads , upturned women and mild impassive eyes really evoke a vision of dream . |
| 23 | " Never mention Virginia to me , nor call her foul names in my hearing , or I will thrash you until you scream for mercy , and mercy you will not get . |
| 24 | Nor heed her piteous Cries , nor flowing Tears . |
| 25 | However , despite being raised a Catholic , Anne had no qualms about a Jewish marriage , nor did her open-minded librarian father and schoolteacher mother . |
| 26 | When Julie Christie , that blonde in Billy Liar , appears as the fashion model of the British-financed Darling ( 1965 ) , Schlesinger remains as distant from his central character , a woman who plays with the emotions of many men and destroys her own happiness by her quest for a good time , as he had from Vic or Billy . |
| 27 | If , in Lady Chatterley 's Lover , the scales were to fall from Connie 's eyes and she were to see the worship of Mellor 's phallus for what it is , a means of subordinating and oppressing women , she could free herself and develop her authentic will , ego and individuality . |
| 28 | Thereafter , the defendant must have pulled down her pants and tights and stabbed her private parts a number of times . |
| 29 | After drying her hair Ruth tied it back from her face with a white velvet ribbon and planned her next move . |
| 30 | ‘ Hush , honey , hush , I hate it too , ’ he murmured , enfolding her in his arms and stroking her sopping hair . |