Example sentences of "[prep] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped for a breath and took a step nearer her mother . |
| 2 | Rita has moved to Amersham , nearer her son and daughter . |
| 3 | But today , even after her conviction and serving her prison sentence , the Baroness insists she did nothing wrong . |
| 4 | She will be accompanied by her father , who will continue as coach , with her mother looking after her studies . |
| 5 | Alison Edwards , 20 , of West Glamorgan , fell into a coma after her heart stopped as doctors tried to repair her slashed face . |
| 6 | Even after her heart attack she would work till midnight and beyond . |
| 7 | Perhaps a reticent look came upon my face , for she did n't pause after her questions or seem expectant of any replies . ’ |
| 8 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 9 | Unmarried , she had lived at Elm Cottage all her life , looking after her parents until they died well into old age . |
| 10 | She 's a worker , and I like to think she takes after her parents . ’ |
| 11 | She spent her whole life looking after her parents and now she looks after us , too . |
| 12 | She was everything he had dared hope for , and more : she had perfect features and limbs , an endearing , screwed-up little face and a trace of dark hair on her pate , just to show she took after her parents . |
| 13 | ‘ I learned this fact , ’ continued the great man , ‘ from Mrs Reed , the kind lady who took care of her after her parents ’ death and brought her up as a member of the family . |
| 14 | And Melanie 's aunt might be important if Loretta was going to pursue this line of inquiry : presumably it was she who had brought up the girl after her parents ' death in the plane crash . |
| 15 | Three years after her debut album , Neneh Cherry is back in the pop arena . |
| 16 | Nora married William Simpson in November 1927 three scandalously short months after her Gleneagles trip . |
| 17 | When he 'd appeared with her breakfast Penry Vaughan had been reasonably friendly — and in the middle of the night he 'd been kindness itself after her nightmare . |
| 18 | When she meets him after her seduction by the Older Man , they are tragically tense and withdrawn . |
| 19 | Gray began singing for Baldwin after her cousin — an avid Chicago house devotee who would occasionally drag Paris out to the city 's hottest clubs — heard Baldwin was looking for a singer and gave him Gray 's number . |
| 20 | The plight of the girl was discovered after her dad , who had been living in Spain , contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin . |
| 21 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 22 | But then , as Miss Blagden said , she was ill and depressed after her sister 's death . |
| 23 | Yes , two months ago she had been just one of the Pinehurst girls , and today she was the owner of a house and faced with the double problem of looking after her sister and providing a means of livelihood for them both . |
| 24 | At first Clare kept in touch with Annabel after her sister returned to New York , but as her own life became increasingly difficult , she found herself unable to write the sort of letter that would prop up Annabel 's crumbling self-esteem . |
| 25 | She told me that after the second , her son 's death , she was so angry with God that she refused to cry and found after her sister 's death , she was unable to . |
| 26 | She 's needed to look after her sister and brother-in-law . |
| 27 | Stella tries to look after her sister showering her with compliements to try to get Stanley to ‘ understand her and be nice to her . ’ |
| 28 | Nine-week-old Katie Phillips had been admitted to Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital for observation after her sister Becky died , John Goldring , QC , told Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 29 | Other winners were : Elsie Looker , 79 , of Southsea , Hants , who won the Tunstall Telecom Caring Award for looking after her sister in her home after she developed Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 30 | The 43-year-old mum went through six weeks of agony after her skin literally peeled off . |