Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So how did Mrs Price win her case when she was alleging age discrimination . |
| 2 | All the promises of help from the LTA failed to materialise , but nothing clouded her ambitions or her aspirations . |
| 3 | Tears clouded her eyes as she remembered those dark days , but she blinked them away . |
| 4 | Even so , a little frown of apprehension clouded her face as her thoughts strayed to the hours ahead . |
| 5 | so what we 've got ta do is we got ta buy her desk and we 've got ta buy her a little chest of drawers |
| 6 | Only one thing surprised me — I did n't recognise her voice and I had thought I would . |
| 7 | Until then she had been tortured by fears that she might not recognise her son if she should see him . |
| 8 | Forcing herself to stay still , not to complain because her mother had always said complaining was bad , she waited , trying to contain her impatience so it did n't spill out from her body and spoil everything . |
| 9 | To try and tempt her appetite because she 's throwing up |
| 10 | She never knew how long she slept , but when she drifted back to consciousness she was aware even before opening her eyes that she was no longer alone in the room , and her body stiffened . |
| 11 | ‘ Look at me , ’ he said , and she did , slowly opening her eyes until they were fixed on his face . |
| 12 | He would need her help if they were to take the matter further . |
| 13 | Beneath the oral history lies a sad text of spies , betrayers , official reprisal and oppression , and heartrending devotion : ‘ Old Mrs Macdonald , after her guest had left the house , took the sheets in which he had lain , folded them carefully , and charged her daughter that they should be kept unwashed , and that , when she died , her body should be wrapped in them as a winding sheet . |
| 14 | For a moment he refused to meet her eyes but she said his name . |
| 15 | After one or two walks over the hills together the girl preferred to stay at home so the mother went on her own ; on one of these occasions Peony had actually tidied up and got tea ready and gone a little way along the track to meet her mother when she saw her coming up the hill . |
| 16 | The girl who 's just 14 was at Bletchley Railway Station to meet her boyfriend when her ordeal began . |
| 17 | Phoebe felt the tension prickling her belly as she lay down again . |
| 18 | This would baffle her friends and her students who had the impression that she was engaged in some vast if imprecise enterprise . |
| 19 | There was n't a lot the captain could say without jeopardizing her standing so she just nodded once and switched off . |
| 20 | ‘ I was picturing her face when I said I was seeing you this evening . ’ |
| 21 | They used to pinch her tabs and everything , so she tried to hang herself . |
| 22 | And er , Margot was behind the and they were painting her house and somebody fell and she had to go and give them artificial respiration or something did n't she ? |
| 23 | Luke 's hands were cradling her head and he was kissing her all over her face with an adoring tenderness she would never have dreamed was possible . |
| 24 | One hand came up , cradling her face as he slanted his mouth over hers , softening the demand and yet deepening the kiss with a tender seduction that was as devastating as his initial urgency . |
| 25 | Lord only knew what cutting comments would have come her way if he had . |
| 26 | Rita , who was too afraid to show her face to the cameras , divorced her husband after she was forced to take part in an arranged marriage , a practice she believes is barbaric and almost as bad as prostitution . |
| 27 | Tears misted her eyes as she stared back at him , wishing she did n't feel so confused , and heard him curse softly , as though the words were torn from him against his will . |
| 28 | Well the bugger is just coming on and he was cleaning the car down hosing her car so he says I turned the hose on him . |
| 29 | The softly spoken threat cut through the haze fogging her brain and she sat bolt upright , knocking away the hand that had been caressing her into submission almost without her realising it . |
| 30 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |