Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back . |
| 2 | Her GP referred her to a hospital in Watford , North London , where she underwent laser treatment to try and prevent the damage from getting any worse — but it did n't help . |
| 3 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 4 | Stella tries to look after her sister showering her with compliements to try to get Stanley to ‘ understand her and be nice to her . ’ |
| 5 | She must have been mad , totally and ridiculously mad , she thought , to have let her sister talk her into making this trip , alone . |
| 6 | Beatrice was married now , with a family of her own , and because times were hard her sister helped her with surreptitious gifts of money ; and with clothes , toys , and treats for the children . |
| 7 | There was a funny kind of tightness in her chest preventing her from breathing properly . |
| 8 | Her route took her along Wellingborough road , one of Northamptons busiest streets . |
| 9 | Her mum got her into hospital but Sharon discharged herself . ’ |
| 10 | Lisa , her Mum gives her about every Saturday she gives her a tenner , but if she 's going out she gets a lot of money right . |
| 11 | Jezrael wondered whose memory was being replayed inside her mind to guide her through this metal rat-run . |
| 12 | But her mind presented her with two stiff figures lying side by side , not even holding hands , perhaps not even saying a polite goodnight . |
| 13 | She was aware of a prickly sensation along the back of her neck warning her of danger . |
| 14 | He touched her breasts , briefly , as if her nakedness confirmed her as the victim . |
| 15 | Outside in her car she kept a tight grip on herself , refusing to let her humiliation reduce her to tears . |
| 16 | She hurried back to the dressing-tent , where her mummy helped her into her Gnome outfit , around which was swathed a broad white band on which was printed in big letters the Brownie Guide Motto , LEND A HAND . |
| 17 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |
| 18 | Her half-sister took her to the police . |
| 19 | As she watched him striding up the beach she tried to consider what he had said but with his loss the full weight of her grief hit her with a thud that stopped her eyes , her ears , her brain . |
| 20 | The sign of her barrenness filled her with depression , and as usual she could n't prevent an irrational moment of anger with Dmitri for being sterile . |
| 21 | His next letter offered her marriage to save her from the dreadful future of stripping off that she would be subjected to otherwise . |
| 22 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 23 | No matter what undercurrents had passed between them last night , it had been true enough that it was la Principessa who 'd sent her grandson to collect her at the Sala dell'Arte . |
| 24 | A finger tapping her cheek caused her to reluctantly stir . |
| 25 | She was part of a team and content to be just that ; she did n't want to have to leave the protective colouring her job gave her in the safety of the laboratory . |
| 26 | The sharp sensation in her midriff shocked her by its intensity . |
| 27 | Then , to her everlasting shame , a new and totally unexpected sensation found its way into her consciousness , so devastating , so unlike anything she had ever experienced before , as her body betrayed her with its instant response . |
| 28 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 29 | A named and photographed woman who had apparently beaten off The Fox by biting him was a major story in one Sunday newspaper : ‘ her courage saved her from becoming another of Fairley 's rape victims ’ . |
| 30 | Mrs. O'Brien said that she believed what her husband told her about the company doing well and having good potential , but she was concerned for her son and felt that it was only for three weeks , and if it would do the trick , she would sign . |