Example sentences of "[noun] her [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the wide bench seat her mother held her close . |
| 2 | When the lone passenger rose to give a Scots woman his seat her husband pulled her back saying , ‘ Do n't you know who he is ? |
| 3 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 4 | ‘ Whatever Maureen thinks , Ron Barron will keep things going in the direction her father pointed them . ’ |
| 5 | Of course her father saw them arrive but he never mentioned them . |
| 6 | Barbara Sewart , for instance , has angina and of course her doctor told her that this diet was particularly suitable for her . |
| 7 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |
| 8 | No wonder her class loved her . |
| 9 | A few days later before Anne went to work her mother asked her to go for bread . |
| 10 | For a second her eyes searched his face in case there was a vestige of suspicion left , but he held her close , fingers running continually through her tousled mop of blonde hair , lips pressuring her face and neck as if he could never touch her enough . |
| 11 | When she was a little girl her grandmother told her there were two angels beside her bed . |
| 12 | In her viva her examiner asks her if she does not think that ‘ dipthongisation in fourteenth century Kentish may have been optional ’ , and her immediate reaction is that ‘ The question made no sense at all ’ . |
| 13 | For a moment her father said nothing more either he just stood with his hands clasped behind him , looking up at the ceiling . |
| 14 | For one moment her eyes met his and fleetingly she wondered how much he had heard . |
| 15 | But at the last moment her courage deserted her and she ran , sobbing , away from the house into the arms of a friend . |
| 16 | She was wearing the dumb preppie blouse her mother liked her to put on for school and , of course , the Iron Maiden . |
| 17 | For laughing and singing at a funeral her husband gave her a reproving tap , and she had to return to her home in the lake . |
| 18 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 19 | The study skills she had learnt were certainly of value — six weeks before she went on her first overseas assignment her company put her through a crash course in Greek ! |
| 20 | She hated the dresses her mother made her wear , sombre unattractive things in rough heavy wool or dull summer cotton ; and she had asked Leo to go shopping with her and help her choose . |
| 21 | Jarvis 's train set , the one which had diverted him from his mother 's grief on the day her father hanged himself , was laid out on the floor in Lower Six , a classroom on the top floor , and Jarvis had told Jasper he could play with it whenever he liked . |
| 22 | She told me how she wrote several letters to her home complaining of the punishment she was given and begging to be taken away but she received no reply until one day her brother paid her a visit and gave her the news that their parents were both dead . |
| 23 | In a slow seductive sweep her hand continued its caress , moving delicately across the angular plane of his cheek to trace the curve of his ear , the silkiness of the hair at his temples . |
| 24 | Then just as she was preparing to leave to return to her flat her mother invited her to Sunday lunch . |
| 25 | One morning her parents found her sitting outside her bedroom door . |
| 26 | Six months before her husband died in April 1803 , she had a letter from Coutts her bankers to say she had outstanding bills for £700 but her current account balance stood at 12s 11d . |
| 27 | DELIGHTED transplant girl Laura Davies burst into song to celebrate a journey her parents feared she might never make yesterday . |
| 28 | And as proof in the healing power of accepted love her hands undid him , as he undid her , until , naked together , he lifted himself to enter her , and if for McAllister there was a moment of trapped fear it disappeared when she was truly his , and they were , at last , one thing , moving together in harmony in an experience quite unlike the shock and terror which she had felt with Havvie , and had always feared would happen to her if she ever made love again . |
| 29 | There 's a large suitcase her father gave her which holds all her clothes , there are two carriers full of food and cooking things , and that 's that . |
| 30 | The presbyterie after dealing with her and finding her grossly ignorant recommends to Mr David Simpson her minister to instruct her privately and afterwards to rebuke her publickly . |