Example sentences of "[prep] her [noun sg] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aunt Louise , that letter of Celia 's , what was the little bit of writing beneath ‘ Dear Mother ’ , and the bit after her name at the end ? ’ |
| 2 | And millions of viewers saw her work 24 years after her death at the age of 81 . |
| 3 | She went and fetched out the folded garments for him , and went about her business at the clay oven outside while he stripped and dressed himself again in the good Welsh clothes that had been made for him . |
| 4 | Seeing Aunt Sarah so unusually ill and helpless , Ruth was filled with grief for her sake at the news she had brought . |
| 5 | Therefore the prosecution should try to provide corroboration for her allegation at the investigation stage , even regarding the accused 's identity ( R v Midwinter ( 1971 ) 55 Cr App R 523 ) . |
| 6 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 7 | It had been one of her favourites , during her course at the college . |
| 8 | The Times of India reported the case of a striptease artiste in the coastal resort of Goa who had been sued by the management of the five-star Hotel Kalimpong , when she refused to undress during her performance at the hotel restaurant one evening . |
| 9 | During her stay at the ICO nearly five hundred officers came under her influence . |
| 10 | However , she was finding it difficult to stifle the waves of panic which swept through her body at the thought of being in close contact with this man who had once meant so much to her . |
| 11 | Merrill could n't keep the sharpness out of her voice at the mention of Luke 's name . |
| 12 | Marion came out of her hut at the noise , straightened , and found herself staring into Lachlan 's eyes . |
| 13 | He taught her a position for sleeping that placed the forepart of her brain at the apex of a pyramid . |
| 14 | Because of what had happened , some of her excitement at the thought of seeing Czechoslovakia had ebbed . |
| 15 | At a reunion of her year at the university last week , not one of her dozen or so classmates could recall the tall slim Yorkshire girl with light brown hair . |
| 16 | Simply , the Queen has spent far more of her life at the heart of politics than any of the party leaders . |
| 17 | A wave of tiredness came upon her , this time the full tidal memory of the strains of her life at the inn , her age , her vulnerability , her need to stand alone … |
| 18 | Transfer Theatre open their new devised music-theatre show THE TIME OF HER LIFE at the end of January and then go on a tour throughout the North West , Midlands and South until March . |
| 19 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 20 | Paige very nearly shot out of her skin at the sound of Travis 's voice . |
| 21 | Her work in the refectory of New Hall was brought before the formation of the collection , as a result of her residency at the college and it could be said to have struck a characteristic note of stringent inquiry for the collection . |
| 22 | Police withdrew the fine and three penalty points when Nichola , 37 , explained no-one was behind the wheel of her car at the time . |
| 23 | The knife raked her side , but she ignored the pain and struck out with the flat of her hand at the psycho 's chin . |
| 24 | Yesterday we told how a new book gives precise locations of bedrooms used by the Queen and members of her family at the Palace . |
| 25 | She was surprised at the intensity of her disappointment at the prospect of missing Rob 's party . |
| 26 | She had duly registered the death of her father at the Council Offices that afternoon and the funeral had now speedily to be carried out in Buckinghamshire . |
| 27 | On this occasion the 24-year-old occult fanatic was cleared of the charge because he claimed he was misinformed of her age at the time of the offence . |
| 28 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 29 | Jackie Marston , manager of the hospital social workers , was still negotiating funding for social work links with these surrounding districts when I met her and some of her team at the hospital . |
| 30 | With the usual lack of euphemism , the overseers enter the rubric ‘ Dead ’ against her name at the beginning of 1786 ; their accounts for 10 January indicate that it had cost them the grand sum of 3s. 9d. to bury three paupers : ‘ West Wife ; Titford and Robbans ’ . |