Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But luck had come her way at the very last moment . |
| 2 | Merlyn demanded to know why he had not reported her departure at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ THEY keep on writing you off — but they 're wrong , ’ beamed a delighted Roy Inman , the women 's team manager , as Ann Hughes , Britain 's top lightweight , stepped off the mat having won her semi-final at the World Championships here yesterday . |
| 4 | The 27-year-old mother 's ordeal began when the kidnapper jumped out at her after she had parked her car at the top of a multi-storey at a shopping centre in Eastleigh , Hants . |
| 5 | It had been forty-five minutes earlier when Dr Barbara Moule had parked her Fiesta at the Chesterton Hotel , finding John Ashenden waiting for her a little anxiously . |
| 6 | Dawn Allenby presented Richard St Ives with an oil-painting of a bull in a tortoise-shell frame which had caught her eye at the back of a butcher 's stall in St John 's Market . |
| 7 | He leaned across with the bottle , and she realised that she 'd almost drained her glass at the first attack . |
| 8 | There was sadness at the absence of Steffi Graf , who had to return home without playing because , within days of recovering from the flu that had disrupted her appearance at the Hopman Cup , she went down with German measles . |
| 9 | Perhaps the old gods had been listening , when she 'd made her wish at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 10 | That book portrayed her as an insecure child , who had overcome her unhappiness at the time of her mother 's elopement by zealously nursing her younger brother . |
| 11 | St Giles 's cathedral nearby is more properly known as the High Kirk , having been formally designated a cathedral for only a brief period during the reign of Charles I. It was here that Charles attempted to impose a High Anglican liturgy , virtually a Mass , upon a Presbyterian society which responded with brawls in the church and outside , still remembered as the Jenny Geddes Riots after a vegetable seller from the market who was reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean 's head . |
| 12 | If she could have admitted her folly at the beginning it would have been all right , but the longer it went on the harder it became . |
| 13 | He had taken her place at the eyepiece of the instrument . |
| 14 | At last she had finished her work at the sink and looked doubtfully at his bed — surely it would be more comfortable if it were remade ? |
| 15 | When she had finished her course at the university , the pull of her home town had been a strong one . |