Example sentences of "her by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specifically , the Commissioner has three functions : ( a ) to keep under review the carrying out by the Home Secretary of the functions conferred upon him or her by the Act ; ( b ) to keep under review the adequacy of any arrangements made for the purposes of restricting the use and distribution of the intercepted material ; ( c ) to give the Tribunal all such assistance as the Tribunal may require for the purpose of enabling it to carry out its statutory functions . |
| 2 | Now Stacey , I remember , she used to , this is , must be mentioned within the bunk as well , cos I , for some reason I remember sitting her down on the chair to dress her by the bunk |
| 3 | JANET Broadbent with the marketing award certificate presented to her by The Catering Guild . |
| 4 | As for Jessie herself , she had held her in her arms and reassured her that her Robbie would be all right , even though , from the scanty information given her by the nurse , she could n't know for sure if he would be . |
| 5 | Sybil appeared entirely confident in her assessment of Barney 's character and Melissa felt warmer towards her by the minute . |
| 6 | But as they seized her by the mantle , she shook it from her shoulders , folded two of her children in her arms and floated away through a window , never more to be seen by her husband and the two children she had left behind . |
| 7 | In order to have a claim for payment a creditor must prove the debt owed to him or her by the company . |
| 8 | It was through this most improbable passage of Scripture , taken home to her by the Spirit , that she in due course became a Christian . |
| 9 | She tells me the ambulance is on its way , then she fetches Ma downstairs and sits her by the Rayburn . |
| 10 | There are rules for deciding how much is taxable , and these should be explained to her by the insurance company with which she is dealing . |
| 11 | A group of workmen crossing over to the Valley just before dawn found her by the shore . ’ |
| 12 | Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board . |
| 13 | Slipping the bit out of Daisy 's mouth , he led her by the halter to a gap in the belt of trees which clothed the river bank . |
| 14 | Mrs Bottomley has asked the committee to make recommendations to her by the beginning of 1994 . |
| 15 | When they had passed under the Ponte di Rialto , with a disappointing view of the backs of its double row of shops , she checked the directions given to her by the hotel clerk , and , along with a jostling crowd of people , some tourists , some locals , disembarked at Sant'Angelo . |
| 16 | It had been no hardship to sit and talk horses with her by the hour but he certainly had never expected his friendship to be so handsomely rewarded . |
| 17 | She also became a celebrated beauty through the depictions made of her by the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron [ q.v. ] and the painters Brown , D. G. Rossetti , Burne-Jones , and Val Prinsep [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | Draped across the carved wooden lid of a nearby chest were the clothes given to her by the Queen . |
| 19 | Grabbed her by the chin |
| 20 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |
| 21 | The governor raised his shaggy brows at Flavia Sherman in a theatrical expression of sympathy as her husband launched into a detailed discussion of his hunting plans , and taking her by the elbow , he guided her away towards the waiting throng to begin introducing her . |
| 22 | One large , official hand grasped her by the elbow . |
| 23 | I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow . |
| 24 | She would have run past him , but he caught her by the elbow . |
| 25 | Then Clare took her by the elbow and led her along the path which suddenly went through a gate and stopped . |
| 26 | ‘ What 's the sudden hurry ? ’ he growled , coming up beside her and again grasping her by the elbow . |
| 27 | Duvall seized her by the hair , dragging her away from the wall . |
| 28 | ‘ What are you talking about , Ellen ? ’ he demanded , grabbing her by the hair . |
| 29 | The Queen 's speech at the opening of parliament is of course written for her by the government of the day . |
| 30 | Taking his curtain calls after a successful speech , he drew her to him by the hand and entwined his arms with hers until she gently shook him off , whereupon he enjoyed his triumph for a while manfully alone , until he again resorted to his wife Glenys , going to fetch her , leading her again by the hand , and holding her by the waist . |