Example sentences of "with her [noun] for the " in BNC.

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1 There was the most profound admiration mingled with her affection for the elder sister who had brought her up ever since their mother 's death , twelve years ago .
2 At first our association was concerned with her scripts for the CBC broadcasts , and I found her most amenable to work with .
3 Without caring what he thought , she threaded her fingers tenderly through the thick , short waves of hair at the back of his head , probing gently with her fingertips for the already swelling lump .
4 The girl noticed Wightman while waiting with her boyfriend for the last train .
5 She bumped into Charlie later on , as she was heading out with her list for the coffee-shop order .
6 But on another level the linguistic acrobatics which the novel displays provide Mira with verbal strategies that enable her to cope with her fear for the future and her personal situation in the present .
7 Although , in manners bound , he held and played with her hand for the rest of the drive home , he felt that he could have done instead with a nice talk about hunting .
8 At last she wrote to Sir John Merchiston , who was a remote cousin , but whom she had known when she came as a débutante to visit here with her family for the hunting . ’
9 Loyalty to her clerical superiors , to the Church and all it stood for , battled with her contempt for the way in which the senior clergy had behaved both to herself and to Amy .
10 It was the first step in the emotional detachment that would dominate her relations with her mother for the rest of her life .
11 Despite living with her mother for the past eight years , she saw her foster parents every other weekend and went on holidays with them .
12 Nell pumped up the air , constricting the blood supply , then bled it out again , listening with her stethoscope for the returning pulse .
13 Braniel woman Mrs Alexander Dodds ( centre ) , was presented with her prize for the ‘ Best Garden in the Braniel Estate ’ by judges Mr Albert Crooks and Housing Executive district manager Mrs Lorraine Campbell .
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