Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The surgeon apparently did not listen to his patient or respect her bodily integrity . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " 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 . |
| 9 | Nor heed her piteous Cries , nor flowing Tears . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | AILING Liz Taylor , 60 , is to defy doctors and make her annual trip to Swiss ski resort Gstaad where she and ex-husband Richard Burton spent their happiest moments . |
| 12 | She must not allow thoughts of Jake to disturb her and upset her precious peace of mind . |
| 13 | This was in the mid-thirties when Miss Gladys Batchelor niece of " Spot " Batchelor , owner of the cement works , would visit her uncle and land her light aircraft in the village , on one occasion she landed in an autogyro , the early equivalent of a helicopter . |
| 14 | Mandy managed to pull herself away from the glasses long enough to roll green eyes at her cousin and wrinkle her freckled nose . |
| 15 | She may fear Aids for her son ; she may fear violence from her husband ; she may fear that her son will have to move out of the family home and fear her own loneliness . |
| 16 | They also pointed out that there was no room service and Maggie sank back down to sit on the bed and nurse her aching face . |
| 17 | He hesitated before her a moment , and then he took her hands and bent his head , and gave her the solemn kiss of kinship ; and before she could draw breath and touch her astonished fingers to her lips , he was out of the paddock and away across the clearing into the trees . |
| 18 | And he besought his mother that she would love her even as she loved him himself , and that she would do good to her and show her great honour , for which he should ever serve her with the better good will . |
| 19 | For some reason he picked up on that word and let her cool statement go by for the moment . |
| 20 | She had hardly settled herself against the pillows and let her thickened lids slide back over her aching eyeballs when she heard a knock on the door . |
| 21 | With a sigh she slid her hands beneath the front of his jacket and let her own fingers graze the hard stubs of his nipples . |
| 22 | But too late , at another signal from Jean-Claude , the girl in the mack clutched her side and stumbled , then collapsed on the ground , and shuddering , turned over as the camera came close and moved out to hover over her face and catch her bitter smile as she died . |
| 23 | By then , Joanne Willies Williams hopes to have the money to stop claioming help , and meet her future commitments to Rodborough Fort . |
| 24 | She was able to change this pattern slowly , beginning to recognise , express and meet her own needs . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've had better tarts , ’ he said , and , walking to the door as she struggled into a sitting position , trying to restore her ruined self , for at some time she must leave the room and face her shattered world , he flung her his final insult . |
| 26 | In other words , we must motivate our learner to think , and give her ample opportunity to do so . |
| 27 | Pausing only to pull on her boots and recover her other belongings from a shelf near the door , she cautiously slipped out of the room . |
| 28 | RACHEL got pregnant at 15 because she wanted to leave school and get her own home . |
| 29 | Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London . |
| 30 | Every three weeks when they go and visit her bloody granny in Bethnal Green . |