Example sentences of "her [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Distracted , Luce stubbed her toe against a piece of raised planking and tripped . |
| 2 | But assisting her investigations into a perfectly natural death as if it were murder was little short of lunacy . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I thanked her for her honesty with a box of chocolates . ’ |
| 4 | And also there was something in Lesley 's appeal that engaged her sympathy in a way she hesitated to analyse . |
| 5 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
| 6 | Tricia took her case to a tribunal , and won an out-of-court settlement . |
| 7 | Evelyn was carrying her case to a waiting taxi . |
| 8 | Of course , Delia Sutherland had personalised it the way women do , in her case with a trace of dog . |
| 9 | Alice shut her case with a snap and stood up , a little flushed , eyes very full and shining . |
| 10 | Bennett argues her case in a particularly invigorating fifth , and final , chapter , ‘ Of Genre , Gender and Sex ’ . |
| 11 | The employee then puts his or her case in a similar manner . |
| 12 | Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape . |
| 13 | Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario positively demolished her opponents with a ruthlessness reminiscent of Navratilova 's great rival of the 1980's , Chris Evert . |
| 14 | Rose of Lima 's mystical marriage to Jesus , his visits to her , her direct sense of his immediate and corporeal presence , was understood by her and her contemporaries as a direct reward , and more than a compensation , for the violence of her own purification . |
| 15 | The small shock of surprise disturbed her judgement for a moment , and the awareness of feeling and looking disconcerted inclined her to resent him , and to look for and find impudence in an approach which would have seemed perfectly excusable in a resident scholar . |
| 16 | ‘ I am certain of it , ’ he replied , but promptly settled her heartbeats to a dull , steady rhythm once more by adding , ‘ because of your car , did n't I have good reason to contact you ? ’ |
| 17 | After a while , sitting in the car , we saw her stand for a few minutes first on one of the Howes , then on another , still and with arms raised . |
| 18 | Armed with walkie-talkies so we could trail her progress at a distance , we waited until noon when she nervously approached and then eagerly ate all her dinner , with the added sedatives . |
| 19 | Eyeing her progress from a short distance Archdeacon Treadwell recognised his duty . |
| 20 | There follows an attempted conspiracy by ‘ I-narrators ’ in the aim of increasing their prominence and defining their specific needs , a revolt by several characters against their authors ( most notably Oedipa Maas from The Crying of Lot 49 who declaims her views as a feminist despite Pynchon 's ‘ macho ’ stance ) , and finally , a protest by a gay rights group against the under-representation of homosexuality in literature . |
| 21 | Naylor did not keep her waiting , but rang her doorbell with a few minutes to go before eleven . |
| 22 | No mention of the fact that the Autumn gales will soon have her rich attire dangling round her ankles without a leaf to cover her dignity . |
| 23 | And she had returned the following afternoon , carrying Timmy on her hip and the rest of her possessions in a backpack . |
| 24 | She left her sister to rest for a while , and she herself set off at once with her possessions in a basket . |
| 25 | The princess , looking tanned and relaxed , led her sons into a waiting minibus when the party arrived in London and it is expected the boys will join their father this weekend . |
| 26 | Her face was a tragic mask , that of a woman who has sent all her sons to a war and waits hourly for the death telegram . |
| 27 | ‘ But the squire found out and chopped his sister 's head off , which made her change into a baby rabbit . |
| 28 | But Mandy 's gift for drama and her change to a quavering old voice had brought a reluctant smile on to Charity 's lips . |
| 29 | He saw her change from a carefree girl into a woman in the space of two seconds , the eyes which met his filled with pain . |
| 30 | Diana asked her sister for a lift to London . |