Example sentences of "her [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 2 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 3 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
| 4 | Then , after a whispered word with one of the cousins , Angel and he galloped up on either side of her and neatly lifted her off the little black mare . |
| 5 | Miss Belle 's stature placed her between the two sisters , but whereas the other two were thin , her body was well padded and tightly laced . |
| 6 | In the spring of this year , a pharmacist told her about a new drug called Imigran . |
| 7 | And I griped to her about a certain person at work , I lamented the fact that we were a second-rate company when we could be a first-rate company , the usual junk . |
| 8 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 9 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 10 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 11 | While they ate their first course , a delicately flavoured clear soup , Nathan told her about the winemaking establishments which lay along the shore to the south of the town . |
| 12 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
| 13 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 14 | A NURSE charged with murdering four children had shown no emotion when colleagues spoke to her about the mysterious string of collapses suffered by child patients on the ward where she worked , a court heard yesterday . |
| 15 | Anna never said , Not before you are twenty-one ; she did n't tell her about the legal arrangements she had made . |
| 16 | Lek , the thirty-year-old maid installed for her along with the furniture by the Committee , telling her about the nine children and the mother up-country she supports and whom she rarely sees . |
| 17 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 18 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 19 | He was clever at finding bargains , reporting back to her about the special offers , the cheaper lines . |
| 20 | Earlier she admitted : ‘ It was a shame it had to go ’ , when a fund-raiser at the town 's South Cleveland Hospital asked her about the returned Mercedes . |
| 21 | She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) . |
| 22 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 23 | He was very tempted to tell her about The Yellow Chair . |
| 24 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 25 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 26 | Better have a word with her about the domestic arrangements . |
| 27 | After the meeting a lot of people wanted to talk to Karen and ask her about the last few days . |
| 28 | Earning the obedience and respect of the women in the house , who saw her as no better than they were , was yet another obstacle . |
| 29 | When she is successful , this success is attributed , not to her as a female character , but to the fact that she is a ‘ tomboy ’ ; as the author makes clear . |
| 30 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |