Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] her [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was I who cared for her murdered child through his last days . ’ |
| 2 | Their only appeal to Clara lay in their austerity , which sometimes reached a point where it bordered on the dangerously extreme ; there was one sad tale , for instance , of a little girl who cared for her cruel stepmother with unfailing devotion , and who died of pneumonia after running out in her nightgown to look for her stepmother 's cat . |
| 3 | She began to feel the urgent rise and fall of his chest against the compact roundness of her young breasts , and knew a tingling awareness in them that threaded through her entire body in a way that was completely new to her and utterly wonderful . |
| 4 | Earlier Sabatini , the top seed , moved into her fourth final of the year with a 6–3 , 6–2 victory against Brenda Schultz , of Holland , while Martinez , the fifth seed , beat compatriot Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6–4 , 7–5 . |
| 5 | Finding herself jobless and with little to do , she drew upon her past experience of life in the Mediterranean and began compiling recipes ‘ less with any thought of future publication than as a personal antidote to the bleak conditions and acute food shortages of immediate post-war England ’ . |
| 6 | The floral tribute stemmed from her first-night performance in the West End show Who Shall I Be Tomorrow ? |
| 7 | Her gown was almost wet through and water dripped from her long hair to the floor . |
| 8 | Under the guidance of Loudon , Disraeli 's reformist landowners and manufacturers could find their way from fiction into fact , as Jane Loudon suggests by this incident , recounted in her biographical note upon her husband : |
| 9 | Congratulations to Cynthia Rose on her excellent article on the Spike Lee industry ( FACE 25 ) . |
| 10 | A fireman and his girlfriend are tonight engaged after he proposed to her forty feet off the ground . |
| 11 | Shakespeare referred to her three-fold nature in A Midsummer Night 's Dream : |
| 12 | Erasmus Darwin referred to her domestic powers in his Loves of the Plants ( 1789 ) : |
| 13 | His busy tongue darted between her slippery cunt-lips into her wet gaping hole , like a little penis inside her pulsing vagina . |
| 14 | She played for her native Czechoslovakia in 3–0 defeat of Austria in 1975 , and then played for the United States in 1982 and 1986 . |
| 15 | An excited fan planted a kiss on the Duchess of York 's cheek yesterday as she practised for her new role as a United Nations roving ambassador . |
| 16 | Miss Gabriel retired from the secretaryship in order to become chairman in January 1941 , and on that occasion she told of her long association with the Guild , which she was chiefly instrumental in establishing thirty years previously . |
| 17 | In her memoirs , A Vulnerable Game ( 1989 ) — which contained no hands — Markus also told of her 13-year romance with Harold Lever ( now Lord Lever ) , a minister in the Wilson Government . |
| 18 | ‘ But I do n't think I 'll ever be quite so scared of cows again , ’ she added , when she told of her perilous passage through the herd and how afraid she 'd been . |
| 19 | In the early Fifties she decided to branch out on her own ; she moved west and drove with her two children across America to Los Angeles , where she became a secretary in an aircraft factory and later a fashion buyer at J.C . |
| 20 | Two days later Pamela woke from her after-lunch snooze with a sudden start . |
| 21 | The same smell of stale tobacco hung on the air that she recalled from her only meeting with Tatyana Nowak the day before her suicide . |
| 22 | Hilda Machin looked at her husband 's second wife , raised an eyebrow , and then flopped in her furry slippers down the hall . |
| 23 | I regarded her thin obstinate face and knew she believed to her determined soul in what she said . |
| 24 | When she was attacked by her venerable predecessor Harold Macmillan ( now elevated to the Lords as the Earl of Stockton ) for ‘ selling off the family silver ’ , it added to her proud sense of detachment . |
| 25 | Rose Briant added to her previous achievements by producing the show . |
| 26 | She named Beatrice after one of Victoria 's daughters and a previous book , Victoria And Albert , alluded to her spiritual closeness with her estranged husband 's ancestor . |
| 27 | By this time she was consciously beginning to play the role that most appealed to her ironic sense of self-awareness : the rather eccentric and certainly unorthodox grand old lady of her native Swansea , whose celebrated love of a good cigar , smoked in public , was matched at a less superficial level by deep attachment to the uncompromising principles instilled into her by her Quaker family background . |
| 28 | Liz came to her first CPS on Saturday since Christmas . |
| 29 | When it came to her last day at home , she had gone out into the garden for a final look round . |
| 30 | Her tongue protruded , flopped to her left side from between well-shaped lips . |