Example sentences of "on her [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But once Mona , daughter of the PLO 's chief fund-raiser , had admitted that he had enjoyed a summer holiday on her money at the time of the Gulf crisis , the gap-toothed Lothario was on his bike . |
2 | Frederica , frustrated of magic , took it out on her classmates at a very early age by stripping them ruthlessly of their illusions . |
3 | Arriving on her broomstick at the prison-like school gates , Mildred peered through the railings into the misty playground . |
4 | Some of us were great courtesans very definitely , certainly Stella sitting on her stool at the bar , you 'd think she was in pearls the way she sat there . |
5 | A JILTED boyfriend distributed a video tape of his ex-lover having sex on her desk at a government office . |
6 | If Rune had n't insisted on her presence at the presentation she would still be in England . |
7 | The high society platinum beauty brought up in a secluded hot-house may look a million dollars on the show stand , but is all too liable to fall flat on her face at the first pinprick of adversity and does not stand a chance unless she is cocooned in protective sprays . |
8 | It made the startled singer wan na Shout as loudly as her Sixties hit when it was plonked on her plate at a wedding feast by a mischievous magician . |
9 | Apart from which , she has enough on her plate at the moment . |
10 | As Fabia saw it then , if she did n't want her sister to heap coals of fire on her head when she got back — and Cara had more than enough on her plate at the moment — then she was going to have to be really pushy and go and ring Ven Gajdusek 's doorbell . |
11 | Speaking on the BBC radio he said : ‘ We realise that the Queen has enough problems on her plate at the moment . |
12 | I think that if any one else could , because I do know that she has got an amazing amount of work on her plate at the moment |
13 | The last of the six was occupied by Miss Kate Grace , a cripple from birth , who spent almost all day and every day standing on her crutches at the street door . |
14 | When she was appointed Commissioner , second in rank to the General , in July , 1979 , someone left a gardenia , her favourite flower , on her seat at the thanksgiving service . |
15 | In fact : a full-length cinema-scope colour spread of BB on her stomach at the water 's edge displaying a bottom ‘ as bare as a censor 's eyeball ’ said Time ; BB rescued from the sea in a clinging wet dress ; her wedding night concealed behind some strategically tossed bed linen ; and her breasts showing in faint outline through the sheet she is holding up for modesty 's sake ( they were never seen unveiled ) . |
16 | There are many things on her hands at the moment . |
17 | With the most artfully devised deliberation she managed not to avoid it , tripped spectacularly in such a fashion that she fell forward , the contents of the tea-tray , cups , saucers , dregs of tea , milk , sugar and cream cakes , all cascading neatly into Mrs Darrell 's lap , with McAllister herself , purple in the face as a consequence of stifling a dreadful desire to laugh , landing gracefully on her knees at the good lady 's feet . |