Example sentences of "her [prep] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , what a fool Fernando must have thought her for finding anything suspicious in a locked door . |
| 2 | He hated her for making it impossible for him to bring women home . |
| 3 | In the Italian analogues the wife 's punishment is her realization that she has been tricked , and the implication that her " lover " did not consider her worth spending his own money on ; there , this is reflected by the wife 's helplessness when the trick is sprung — quite the opposite of what we have in the Shipman 's Tale . |
| 4 | He then seduced the daughter of a respectable tradesman and is supposed to have deserted her after getting her pregnant . |
| 5 | He turned back to face her after hearing her impassioned plea , but his mouth was grim . |
| 6 | Germaine Greer accuses her of developing her artistic personalities as an end in itself . |
| 7 | It was this , Blanche said , that had pushed her towards phoning his personal assistant and arranging the interview that night . |
| 8 | There was a touch of desperation in her reply which she knew he heard , but surprisingly he made no attempt to mock her , or force her into giving him any more reasons . |
| 9 | A young herring gull taps its mother 's beak to trigger her into regurgitating its next meal . |
| 10 | Damn this man and his ability to force her into probing her own psyche more deeply than she 'd perhaps ever done before . |
| 11 | Then he drove for 45 minutes to a deserted spot and raped her before dumping his sobbing victim in the village of Cheriton , near Winchester , Hants — 10 miles from where he first struck . |
| 12 | Educated at home , she in turn taught her younger brothers and sisters , which irked her as it prevented her from pursuing her own studies . |
| 13 | Ginny Leng 's Master Craftsman won Badminton in 1989 , but missed the last two runnings because of injury , which also prevented her from defending her European title last season . |
| 14 | Jane realised her desperation had led her to saying something foolish . |
| 15 | He is said to have shown his adoration for her by kissing her holy manuscripts and having them richly bound for her . |