Example sentences of "her [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the kids know who the hell she is , which pisses her off no end , but she does n't visit much . ’ |
| 2 | Marco grabbed Tabitha and hustled her off the quay . |
| 3 | But Inman said : ‘ The referee did not recognise the technique and let her off the hook . ’ |
| 4 | But he suddenly said stop , and let her off the hook . |
| 5 | Just under four hours , to phone in the money and let her off the hook . |
| 6 | Ruether does not think in terms of a God who is transcendent above history and acts as an agent in history ; and this we might say lets her off the hook as far as the theodicy question is concerned . |
| 7 | But Matthew Blake did not seem prepared to let her off the hook so easily . |
| 8 | He had never seen Mandy look contrite before , and he decided , wickedly , to make her suffer a bit before he let her off the hook . |
| 9 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 10 | She was more rueful than ever , so that Charles stopped dancing and if he did n't quite haul her off the dance floor , he was rather brusque . |
| 11 | They have found it hard , too , to make a bridge between the 11 years of Mrs Thatcher and the 16 months of Mr Major , to say what a wonderful woman she was , while being unable to explain why they threw her off the sledge . |
| 12 | The duty manager had to drag her off the dance-floor during the cabaret show . |
| 13 | Instead he offered Lucille his arm and walked her off the floor . |
| 14 | ‘ Take her off the case , of course . |
| 15 | It had been an exhausting day , Blanche reflected in the matter of a second : Christine Mills had unburdened her thoughts , Spittals had ordered her off the case , and now Marek Nowak had chosen that moment to reveal another fragment of the truth . |
| 16 | Blanche understood the people who must have put pressure on the commander to take her off the case : MI5 and Urquhart 's boss , Capron . |
| 17 | She told Dexter what had happened in the meeting with Spittals and how he had ordered her off the case , and she asked Dexter to go on helping her . |
| 18 | I haul her off the bed and half carry , half drag her into the bathroom . |
| 19 | Her brain raced over and over what her mother would say , how awful she would feel , what she ought to do , until she felt that the movement in her head would spin her off the bed and send her whirling round the room . |
| 20 | Bella was very old now and would probably be glad of a rest , George considered , so he drew the pony to a halt and walked her off the road and on to the quarry floor . |
| 21 | Retired school secretary Anne Stern , 73 , was on her way to spend Thanksgiving with relatives when two shabbily-dressed youths pulled in front of her and began trying to force her off the road . |
| 22 | Quickly , I pulled her off the road and down under a small bridge . |
| 23 | Who would want to run her off the road the way the Audi had done ? |
| 24 | No , he was n't trying to run her off the road ; he was trying to kill her . |
| 25 | At 2200 the casualty refloated herself under her own power , but as the rudder was jammed the lifeboat came in again to secure a towline from the casualty 's bow to keep her off the sand . |
| 26 | Lord Grubb knew well enough that Algy dreaded her visits , and to let her off the trial of breakfasting with her mother he had installed a complicated route of strings and pulleys that led from her second-storey bedroom to the basement . |
| 27 | The Hispaniola was moving by herself now , the sea high enough to take her off the beach . |
| 28 | He could hardly throw her off the island . |
| 29 | The boy had been told unequivocally not to let her off the lead — the riding-school only used the land by grace of its owner and it was a shooting estate — but he hated keeping the dog straining at the lead and knew that she would always come to his call . |
| 30 | She took her to , to the Sands and let her off the lead and she went bounding off , and she looked even funnier actually because she , er Doreen the owner had three little Yorkshire Terriers who made Penny look even more huge . |