Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her case only came to light because the Health Authority meeting were mistakenly sent to the media . |
| 2 | As , ten minutes later , she realised that she 'd be lucky if her sister ever spoke to her again . |
| 3 | Her income recently increased to : — Invalidity Benefit £77.00 Disability Living Allowance £30.00 Child Benefit £16.05 Total Income £123.90 Income for Green Form Scheme £93.90 Less deduction for child £26.45 Total Income £123.90 Income for Green Form Scheme £93.90 Less deduction for child £26.45 Leaving total weekly disposable income £67.45 |
| 4 | She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens . |
| 5 | But today the eyes were vibrant with an anticipatory light and Lady Merchiston sat up against her pillows , her glance alternately flicking to the window and following her companion as she moved about the room , tidying up . |
| 6 | The evening takes wing in the touching performances of Michael Maloney and Saskia Reeves as her betrayal eventually leads to a fine deathbed reconciliation scene . |
| 7 | Her work also began to be recognized by the male-dominated science community , although attempts to join their establishments did not go unopposed . |
| 8 | Her work often refers to the truncated anatomy , as do the photographs of John Coplans and the paintings of John Wesley , the other two artists in the show . |
| 9 | The last step but one creaked protestingly and she grimaced apprehensively , her body almost turning to stone as she waited for Dane to suddenly appear and demand to know what she was doing . |
| 10 | Dorothy , one suspects , was always too much ‘ the perfect lady ’ , and schooled too thoroughly in the pre-1914 code of proud reticence ( a code which incidentally her husband also adhered to ) , for her to escape the role of ‘ poor Dorothy ’ that some recent writers have cast her in . |
| 11 | Her back still turned to him , she picked up the white plastic basket and began to hastily retrace her steps towards the cottage — and she heard him laugh . |
| 12 | Rainbow and Clint ( OK , her name now appears to be Annie ; that 's all we know so far ) are getting on a treat . |
| 13 | He had begun it , but she was an active participant now , her breast voluptuously offered to the sensual onslaught of his parted lips when she knew she should be shrinking from them . |
| 14 | Artemis could hear her father still calling to her to turn her pony , but there was nothing she could do . |
| 15 | But the money with which we paid for the house — and with which she bought her nylons and expensive corsets — came from scrap metal : though her father never spoke to her again after she left her first husband , she was his only child and he died intestate . |
| 16 | Shiona held her for a moment , her anger instantly vanishing to be replaced by a warm , maternal well of love . |
| 17 | " You two are my children , " she continued , her voice abruptly returning to normal , " you are all I have , the only things that are truly mine . |
| 18 | She returns to prostitution but then the final exploiter , the pimp , forces himself onto the scene and her life effectively comes to an end . |
| 19 | The only excitement in her life now seemed to be the exchange of clothes for hats by Mrs Bretton-Fawcett . |
| 20 | Dismissing fears that her daughter might have been tricked into a fake marriage by a man determined to ruin her , Nora tried to think more positively , but her brain persistently returned to the appalling question , ‘ Why an Italian , for God 's sake ? ’ |
| 21 | Her brother just came to Handley Farm to say she has n't gone back . ’ |
| 22 | Mrs Thompson 's daughter , Elizabeth , said her mother generally went to bed at 7 pm until 7 am and always turned the heating off , leaving the house quite cold . |
| 23 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
| 24 | And had her mother ever said to him : ‘ Leave me alone , I 'm too tired . |
| 25 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |