Example sentences of "with her [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It might have had something to do with her illness , the eating disorder bulimia .
2 Divorcee Cheryl coped with her illness until six years ago when she began to deteriorate .
3 For a moment Artemis thought her godmother was going to strike her stepmother with her hunting whip , which she was now holding half-raised .
4 And walloped her with her stick .
5 Kelly was pushing and kicking for all she was worth , with her stick working in her left hand .
6 To find this they enlisted the help of the oldest inhabitant , Betty Bell , who prodded about the village green with her stick .
7 ‘ Bastards , ’ howled Perdita , sitting on the painfully hard ground , and bashing it with her stick , ‘ fucking bastards . ’
8 In a flash Perdita closed on him and bashed him across the knuckles with her stick .
9 With her stick Aunt Lou moved quite briskly , however .
10 ‘ Those , ’ said Aunt Lou , lowering herself stiffly into a chair and pointing with her stick at the walnut cabinet , ‘ are yours ’ .
11 She glanced at the clock , it was a wonder mother was n't banging on the floor with her stick by now , it was way past dinner time .
12 ‘ What is this ? ’ she said , drawing a circle in the sand with her stick .
13 Alexandra 's reluctance to descend from her tower , Iskandara 's lameness as she negotiated the stone stairs to her sitting-room , fiercely beating off all help with her stick ; both these things delayed them .
14 ‘ Ready as I can be , ’ she said loudly and poked her with her stick .
15 They went down to the water 's edge and Gran poked with her stick , mouth twisting in on itself .
16 ‘ Do n't you come the bein'-tactful-to-old-people to me , my gel , ’ said Granny , prodding her with her stick .
17 She banged on the wall with her stick .
18 Lucy Lane with her stick and carrot philosophy might be the best one to deal with her .
19 Constance came hurrying as fast as she could with her stick .
20 Some woman doth fall out bitterly with her neighbour ; there followeth some great hurt … .
21 ‘ Audrey had a flirtation with her neighbour , Jim McDonald , ’ Sue says .
22 At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house .
23 She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs .
24 She had no wish to intrude on Helen 's friendship with her neighbour and , unless Edward had something to tell of interest to veterinary work , she resolved to leave as soon as possible .
25 She realized she was fiddling with her finger-socket as she so often did , but it was a useful habit now and she did n't stop .
26 It does get me down though — especially with her blindness — the strain is just too much . ’
27 A twenty-three year old woman has been accused of causing the death of another woman by driving dangerously at speeds of up to 90 miles an hour with her one-year-old daughter on her lap .
28 The series of events began at the CastleCourt shopping complex at teatime last night when a woman , with her one-year-old child , was putting her shopping in the back of her Ford Granada .
29 If she was trying to impress Luke with her willingness to play by his rules , acting like a jealous child over what was undoubtedly a business phone call was hardly the way to begin .
30 I tried to edge past her , but she blocked my progress with her bicycle .
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