Example sentences of "[subord] her [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dressed in my new clothes I went to Miss Havisham 's house , where her cousin opened the gate to me again . |
| 2 | He told me that my grandfather had fought in the Mutiny , and that Mrs Inglis , daughter of my great-grandfather Chelmsford , had been in Lucknow through the siege , where her husband commanded the troops . |
| 3 | But she does not say it , although her anger dispels the nervousness . |
| 4 | Yet if Elizabeth relied more heavily than her predecessors on direct taxation to carry her through the years of peace , she showed a greater reluctance than her father to squeeze the country heavily in times of war . |
| 5 | How soon would it be until her prince felt the same way ? |
| 6 | I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me . |
| 7 | Her image grew larger and larger until her face filled the screen . |
| 8 | For example , a child might be told to say ‘ She sells sea shells on the seashore ’ and be reinforced if her response matches the model utterance . |
| 9 | Guy found his gaze moving slowly over Isabel as if her body held the answers to the questions in his mind . |
| 10 | If her mind survived the Princetown Input , Susan Bishopric would be recognised as the most gifted Dreamer of her generation . |
| 11 | If her father played the tape of her conversation , as inevitably he would , then , whatever the outcome , their relationship would have been dealt an overwhelming blow , one , she was sure , that could never be overcome . |
| 12 | If her grandfather removed the ball and chain , he wrote , would she visit ? |
| 13 | Maybe it 's because she has the most substantial female role in any of Stone 's films to date — or maybe it 's because her character suffered the saddest fate in the backsweep of Jim Morrison 's downfall . |
| 14 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 15 | But whereas her father earned the respect of his people by staying in London throughout the Blitz , the Queen has few positive personal achievements to show for her four decades on the throne . |
| 16 | Unconsciously assumed since her faith necessitated the admission of man 's utter unworthiness and the unmerited grace of God . |
| 17 | Now , since her husband turned the way he did , she 's a martyr to her nerves . ’ |
| 18 | While her boss took the unsuspecting Carolyn out to lunch , workers hoisted her H-reg Volkswagen Polo 20ft into the air with a borrowed crane and parked it neatly on the roof . |
| 19 | If the reciprocal roles and activities which occur in a family in the mutual interdependency phase can be sorted out , it enhances the status and well-being of each side , so that we see a grandmother who mends while her daughter does the washing , an old person baby-sits while the young neighbour does shopping . |
| 20 | This year 's PFAS Child of Valour award went to Wendy Windsmoor , aged nine , who stood for no less that 17 minutes , reserving a vacant meter spot in Oxford while her father negotiated the one-way system . |
| 21 | When they heard the car they went carefully downstairs , and her mother settled her in while her father held the door and Alan put her bag in the boot . |
| 22 | Jules continued to chatter while her mind digested the fact that she was holding Lucenzo 's handkerchief — yet the initials on it were LC . |
| 23 | He watched her mouth fall open like an idiot 's , while her hand let the brush clatter to the floor ; she fell sideways , whether in a real or assumed faint he did not know or care . |
| 24 | She read and read and read while her aunt mended the socks of her husband and brothers or sewed innumerable buttons on their shirts . |
| 25 | Melanie wrestled with self-pity and memory as she sat in the kitchen with her book while her aunt sewed the last seams of the Greek tunic . |
| 26 | Dorothy Marshall describes a case in the eighteenth century which resulted in a servant being hanged : she held a candle while her lover slit the butler 's throat . |
| 27 | When the children were young " big sister " was delegated to get the smaller ones ready for bed while her mother shared the leadership of the evening services.Joyce told the children fairy stories or Bible stories and they sang Army songs and choruses . |
| 28 | ‘ Once she had the key , and whilst her husband signed the formalities , she was to go up to her room , put the handbag containing the Tongue — and money , pearls , and so on — on a ledge as near as possible to a door which was going to be left deliberately ajar . |
| 29 | An industrial tribunal heard that Michelle Mawdsley , 24 , was signed off work by her doctor because she was suffering from depression after her sister lost the babies she was carrying for her . |
| 30 | In the early hours of that same day , June 6th , a little while before her mother heard the official news , Liza Carrow was woken by the sound of throbbing engines in the skies above south Wiltshire . |