Example sentences of "on her [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 By his order dated 5 August 1991 the judge directed that she recover on her counterclaim the sum of £24,751.59 together with interest for unlawful eviction , general damages and consequential loss .
2 On her return the mother had screamed aloud that he had killed the child .
3 In 1938 , she asked him where Neville Chamberlain should stand to deliver a speech on her lawn the following week , and she captured Churchill 's tone perfectly as she recalled his advice : ‘ With the shun in hish eyes and the wind in hish teeth . ’
4 While Fiona was still on her way the medics stuffed Harry full of antibiotics and other palliatives and put stitches where they were needed , and by the time she 'd wept briefly in my arms he was warm and responding nicely in a recovery room somewhere .
5 Audrey Johansen , who was sixty one , had slipped while on her way the toilet in the middle of the night at the Fairmile Psychiatric Hospital at Cholsey in Oxfordshire .
6 She watched each gesture , scoring on her memory the slight frown , the pursing of his lips , and noticing with irreverent shock , for the first time , that his chin was rounded and weak .
7 She scribbled on her napkin the words , ‘ For God 's sake say something ’ , and , having folded it carefully , passed it up through the guests to the Prime Minister himself .
8 " He 's had a lot of trouble , " breathed Alice , on her face the look of one who compassionately contemplates human misery , absolving it from blame .
9 Standing behind Mrs Wimbush , colander in hand , was a heavy-browed , dark-haired woman in a drab , shapeless frock , and on her face the perplexed expression of the mentally confused .
10 She had forced on her mother the excuse of a visit to a cousin in Whitehaven .
11 Ottilia , the Elector Countess of Talabecland , declared war on her rival the Elector Count of Stirland , and open hostilities broke out between the two provinces .
12 Yet she continued to keep on her table the photograph which told so little .
13 Held , granting the declarations , that it was the moment of adjudication of bankruptcy that caused the property of a bankrupt to vest in his trustee thereby causing an involuntary alienation of his property which resulted in the severance of any joint tenancy he might then be beneficially entitled to ; that the combined effect of sections 37(1) and 38 ( a ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 was not to vest title in the trustee retrospectively but rather to vest in the trustee when adjudication occurred title to property which was identified by reference to the property which belonged to the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy ; and that , accordingly , since the joint tenancy had not been severed before the wife 's death , on her death the husband , as survivor , became entitled to the whole beneficial interest in the properties , which on his adjudication as bankrupt vested in his trustee in bankruptcy ( post , pp. 206A , F–H , 207C ) .
14 She quickly began to sketch , and at the same time tried to imprint on her mind the combination of colours that made the whole scene so eerily effective .
15 This they did and on her advice the dog 's diet was changed to one of chicken and rice together with a vitamin supplement .
16 On her death-bed the Catholic Nina contrasts its illegitimacy with the ‘ real ’ sycamore in the Bible .
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