Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Honey met her gaze without flinching . |
| 2 | Sophie passed her hand over her forehead , then began to unfasten the drip . |
| 3 | Heat struck through the thin soles of her sandals as , joining the straggling file of other passengers , Luce made her way across the tarmac towards the rather unprepossessing terminal building . |
| 4 | Luce checked her first impulse , which had been to tear herself free . |
| 5 | I sha n't care when I want to hear my Pamela read her French and Latin lessons to seek my beloved in the nursery or find her engrossed in baby offices . |
| 6 | Isabella recovered her lands , which were augmented by additional grants worth about £9,000 , including Despenser 's lordship of Glamorgan ; she also obtained the younger Despenser 's movables , plate and jewels . |
| 7 | In favour , are facts such as : ( a ) When a relative clause is attached to a clause as its head , then it is introduced by the " which " marker which follows noun phrases , and not the " as " marker used for verbs and verb phrases : ( 65 ) the mountain which they want to climb is Mount Elburz he swept the yard as he was instructed ( 66 ) McRowen queried the call , which infuriated the umpire McRowen queried the call , as ( it ) infuriated the umpire ( b ) Clauses take , in bigger clauses , positions that are commonly filled by noun phrases : ( 67 ) Marples heard the news ( 68 ) Marples heard that the soup was contaminated This is true even of so-called adverbial clauses : ( 69 ) Peggy realized her error after Christmas ( 70 ) Peggy realized her error after the Christmas season was ended |
| 8 | In favour , are facts such as : ( a ) When a relative clause is attached to a clause as its head , then it is introduced by the " which " marker which follows noun phrases , and not the " as " marker used for verbs and verb phrases : ( 65 ) the mountain which they want to climb is Mount Elburz he swept the yard as he was instructed ( 66 ) McRowen queried the call , which infuriated the umpire McRowen queried the call , as ( it ) infuriated the umpire ( b ) Clauses take , in bigger clauses , positions that are commonly filled by noun phrases : ( 67 ) Marples heard the news ( 68 ) Marples heard that the soup was contaminated This is true even of so-called adverbial clauses : ( 69 ) Peggy realized her error after Christmas ( 70 ) Peggy realized her error after the Christmas season was ended |
| 9 | Victoria clapped her hands and put her head on one side , smiling so winningly that everyone laughed . |
| 10 | While Angel slept , Sarah planned her future with heartbreaking realism . |
| 11 | Isabel flung her arms around her sister-in-law . |
| 12 | But as her frail body began rejecting its new organs , Kelly realised her time was near . |
| 13 | Several seconds passed before Isabel realised her name had come from beyond the wall and not from the man whose fingers still gently caressed her cheek . |
| 14 | By the time Isabel realised her position , it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 15 | Just as she was taking soup from the tureen and pouring it into her soup-plate the Hulsbys passed her table . |
| 16 | Kelly made her way through the crowd , vaguely aware of the chatter of people whose dull lives had briefly been made more exciting by another 's misfortune . |
| 17 | Wearily , Kelly made her way back to her car , drove to the nearest hotel and booked a room . |
| 18 | Kelly made her way through the hall towards the front door . |
| 19 | After two years with no news , Mrs Allan sold her beauty salon in Bradford and raised a £20,000 loan to resume the search a month ago . |
| 20 | Alianor registered her preoccupation and wondered at it . |
| 21 | Melanie slung her coat round her shoulders for the thin silky stuff hardly kept out the draughts and the house was freezing cold . |
| 22 | In the same year as Queen Victoria succeeded her uncle , King William IV , Dr. Edward Tuke took a lease on the Manor Farm House , in what by then was called Chiswick Lane , and it became a home for mentally ill gentle-persons . |
| 23 | Swearing as her dead left hand crashed into a chair in the dark , Jezrael made her way across the room , sat down facing him . |
| 24 | Marc made her feel soiled . |
| 25 | Settled round a large pine table with their assorted drinks , Helen listened attentively as Sophie revealed her new plan . |
| 26 | Ven interrupted her thoughts . |
| 27 | Sarah wiped her hands on her apron and stared at Maura , her face wrinkled in concern . |
| 28 | Widow Iris Wainwright made her plea as British and US jets enforced a no-fly zone over the south of the country . |
| 29 | Stromson said : ‘ Paul also told me that Dr Bean-Bayog shared her erotic fantasies with him and asked him to act them out with her — and that they did . ’ |
| 30 | FATAL attraction killer Susan Christie got her wish for justice yesterday — when her five-year jail term was increased to nine . |