Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] her " in BNC.

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1 She coped with the frankly curious looks of the men , one of whom made her blush as he kissed her hand by saying , ‘ No wonder Ludo does not get out of bed in the morning . ’
2 There seems nothing in the present arrangements to prevent two similarly disabled old people being in adjacent rooms in a nursing home , one of whom has her lifetime earnings bled down by ‘ community care ’ while the family of the other looks forward to an undiminished inheritance courtesy of the NHS .
3 ‘ Tell Connie all about it , ’ she invited , relieved to have , for a time , someone other than Memet upon whom to focus her attention , someone more miserable than herself and more …
4 A woman who offers her body commonly for any lewd act for reward is a common prostitute .
5 He knew it was coming because the girl who sold her story to Playboy magazine in America and the Sunday Mirror in London — British model and actress Karen Mayo-Chandler — warned him .
6 In the Post Office while I was trying to phone Prague , Irena was getting free phone calls in exchange for correcting a German text for the manager , and when we went to a bookshop she had a friend who sold her books at half price .
7 The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford was one popular centre for this divertissement and Celia Fiennes , who chronicled her seventeenth century journeys , records that she was there in 1694 and printed her name several times .
8 BLIND Edna Miller gave a thug who attacked her sightless chum a good walloping — with her white stick .
9 She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity .
10 However , Mrs Barlow , who quit her partnership with Peter Clowes in 1978 , was said to have left Britain .
11 A GIRL Friday who quit her job because she could not trust her boss to leave her alone was yesterday awarded £2,390 for sex discrimination .
12 Mrs Cann , 25 , who quit her job at the Unilift forklift company in Rumney , Cardiff , after two years , said : ‘ I could n't take it any more .
13 A TEENAGE mother who stabbed her daughter to death after giving birth because she was too terrified to seek help , walked free from a court yesterday .
14 The possible implications of this last remark struck Desmond himself as he was making it , and they were certainly not lost on Viola , who compressed her lips together grimly .
15 THE story of Kelly Good , the 11-year-old girl who planned her own funeral when her heart and lung transplant failed , moved me to tears .
16 That led , therefore , to Princess Elizabeth being received as Queen , and like her father , she had a scholarly mind ; also she had some exceptional advisers , including William Cecil , Lord Burghley , who became her Secretary of State and served her loyally for over forty years .
17 Perhaps she reserves her fondest memories for Sergeant Barry Mannakee who became her bodyguard at a time when she felt lost and alone in the royal world .
18 She was also joined in Yugoslavia by fellow student from Nottingham , Greg , who became her husband .
19 If she , Alice , could not be married to the man she loved , did it really matter who became her partner ?
20 In 1900 she met the American collector Samuel Bancroft , who became her foremost patron .
21 With her literary earnings she paid for the education of a young sister , who became her amanuensis and moved to Edinburgh with her in 1847 .
22 My Mam was a very attractive , passionate , extrovert womon who lived her life for my Dad and for all of us .
23 The wife who guarantees her husband 's debts , or the widower who leaves all his property to his housekeeper , are not in the same situation as a patient faced with the need for medical treatment .
24 As far as Sarah was concerned Charles was her domain at that time and trespassers were not welcome by the sparky redhead who applied her competitive instincts to the men in her life .
25 The early death of Dr Knapp was a serious blow to those who respected her careful and meticulous studies and research , as well as her analyses of library objectives within the educational system .
26 One , a plaintive song of lost love , is a duet with Mandy Patinkin ( a Tony Award winner as Che in the Broadway production of Evita and Sondheim 's artist of choice for his Pulitzer Prize winning musical Sunday In The Park With George ) , who plays her accompanist 88 Keys in the movie .
27 Mr Jordan 's advice to any woman who thinks her doctor has behaved unprofessionally or asked her to do something humiliating is to refuse straightaway and report the incident .
28 Trudie 's award was presented by popstar Cliff Richard who thinks her efforts are an example to everyone …
29 A woman who fought her way to the top of a liberation movement which traditionally had been the preserve mainly of men .
30 Like Diane Barker , of Bishop Auckland , a deaf teenager who passed her test first time in 1984 after having special mirrors fitted so she could lip read commands from the driving instructor without taking her eyes of the road .
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