Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] on her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( At Taï , a young chimpanzee will often harass its mother in order to use her tools , to eat her fruit or to sit on her branch . ) |
| 2 | Their case would stand or fall on her reliability . |
| 3 | She also wants him to stop phoning her at home and for him to be banned from entering or trespassing on her property or on the actual road . |
| 4 | Rose contented herself with stealing half of Evelyn 's breakfast and stamping on her foot , but her heart was n't really in it . |
| 5 | did you go and knock on her door to see where we were ? |
| 6 | You have to go and knock on her door , cos she ca n't hear you shouting . |
| 7 | Her father had loved her , but her mother had come first , as was only right , and , under her seeming indifference , her mother had loved and relied on her husband . |
| 8 | Later , Gilly ripped out a sheet of paper through the rings of her notebook , lay down on the bed , and pressing on her maths book wrote : |
| 9 | He heard her whisking and wailing on her way , and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone , and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth , as though on a pivot or balance , disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water , and showing a dark , dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse . |
| 10 | She tapped and drew on her cigarette . |
| 11 | Caterina twisted and beat on her sister 's back with her fists . |
| 12 | She pondered for a while , then , as the traffic towards Seabourne became heavier , she abandoned the subject and concentrated on her driving . |
| 13 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 14 | She just wheeled her dolls around and played on her swing . |
| 15 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 16 | She made a fuss of every boat that approached her and mixed with all bathers on the beach , allowing them to pet her , hold her tail , and ride on her back . |
| 17 | Lorenz appeared on both her million-selling albums and dueted on her Number One single , I 'll Be There . |
| 18 | Zaria snuffled and turned on her back as I put the bedside light on . |
| 19 | Clad in nothing but black and sipping on her jar of Guinness , Debbie Smith , pint-sized guitarist with indie sensations Curve , is attempting to convince me she was never a goth . |
| 20 | Only the faithful who pray to her and draw on her strength can do that . |
| 21 | The morning stirred in the trees and interrupted the sleep of stem and leaf and fruit and blossom as gently and efficiently as a mother lifting the cover from her child 's bed and blowing on her face in play to wake her . |
| 22 | His other hand came over and settled on her waist , the thumb drawing idle circles on her skin . |
| 23 | She does n't find it easy to balance her home life with her career , and relies on her husband for his sound advice |
| 24 | Sara fastened her bra and pulled on her shirt . |
| 25 | With a frustrated sigh , she towelled herself dry and pulled on her robe over her underwear . |
| 26 | Blanche nodded to Dexter and pulled on her Aquascutum coat , noticing how threadbare it looked . |
| 27 | In another cell-like room further along the corridor Irina Serov , once the only woman colonel in the Soviet KGB , now jobless since being thrown out in a Gorbachev purge , slid a comb tucked inside her tights into her hand and worked on her hair . |
| 28 | Olive Edis saw portraiture as an art and worked on her belief that ‘ the photograph … should be the X-ray of the soul . |
| 29 | There was the smell of flour and dripping on her apron front , lovely cosy smells which gave a safe feeling , but there were tears on her cheeks . |
| 30 | This is the ruthless side of Kylie , the hard-nosed accountant 's daughter who has exploited her popularity to the hilt and capitalised on her success like no other pop star in the past decade . |