Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them turns her tired beam on us . |
| 2 | Mrs Pipchin 's niece , Berinthia ( Berry ) , a middle-aged spinster whose exploitation as a drudge by her aunt does nothing to diminish her dog-like devotion to Mrs Pipchin . |
| 3 | What would happen to these two women who had done nothing to deserve her evil body and heart between them , what would happen to them when she was dead ? |
| 4 | I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property . |
| 5 | I found her calm assumption that I needed cheering up restful after my mother 's blind denials . |
| 6 | Mind I 'll tell you honest she asked , fat lady this take your troubles to her I forget her bleeding name . |
| 7 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 8 | I mimicked her formal tone . |
| 9 | some little bits round the fence first then I put her ordinary food on her hut and do you know that little old beggar was |
| 10 | I stroke her blonde hair . |
| 11 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 12 | I hid her precious sleeping pills for two days till she signed the form , and we ate for a while . |
| 13 | She 'll want someone to help her little girl . |
| 14 | For the years from the fourth to the tenth I assess her net earnings at twelve thousand three hundred pounds and award the sum of thirty six thousand nine hundred pounds on a multiplier of three . |
| 15 | For the third period in general management for the rest of her working life , I assess her annual salary at fifteen thousand nine hundred pounds net , to which I apply a multiplier of twelve to reach the figure of one hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred pounds . |
| 16 | I poured her neat tequila which she swilled greedily . |
| 17 | I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too . |
| 18 | I remember her very words . |
| 19 | I followed her spindly legs issuing from the bunched-up clothing up and down and along , in and out and under ; squirting , rubbing , shining ; kneeling , crawling , climbing ; gasping , panting , grunting . |
| 20 | ‘ I heard her dying screams . |
| 21 | She 's all of five feet five but I suppose her slim build gives the impression of being petite … |
| 22 | I watched her knotted calves rise and fall below her heavy , woollen dress . |
| 23 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ She did n't want it coloured or layered , but I felt her original style was too long and dragged her down . ’ |
| 25 | Then I saw her toothless gums . |
| 26 | Her large black hat covered most of her face , but when she lifted her head , I saw her dark eyes . |
| 27 | I saw her long throat vibrate as she muttered the words . |
| 28 | Soon after that I saw her big sister Barbie in Mrs Marriot 's . |
| 29 | Someone sent her Vile Bodies , when she had finished it she cried . |
| 30 | How can I feed her nourishing food when she will eat nothing ? |