Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | JOANNE HOCKLEY from Felixstowe Ferry booked her place in the match-play stages of the British Women 's Amateur Championship when she handed in a 72 during the second qualifying round at Royal Lytham and St Annes . |
2 | She stands upright in her long white cotton nightgown from Laura Ashley , scratches her bottom through the cambric , and yawns . |
3 | Belief in some prancing horned beast who conjured up all the mischief in the world strained her tolerance to the limit . |
4 | She might as well have addressed her request to the tablecloth . |
5 | I 'd rather be a paid-up churchgoer with a sense of pride in myself and my family than a part-time schizophrenic who lives her life in a fog of garbled third-hand mysticism and a building that houses goats , chickens and , from the feel of it , fleas like small sharks . |
6 | Using a heavy Tesco bag to help batter her way through the TV crews and a gaggle of amused onlookers , she reached the National Westminster Bank just after water privatisation 's witching hour of 10am . |
7 | He dismissed her apology with a curt wave of his hand . |
8 | President Corazon Aquino dismissed her deputy within the Cabinet , Executive Secretary Catalino Macaraig , on Dec. 10 . |
9 | He dismissed her accusation with a brief gesture of one hand . |
10 | Three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn dismissed her appeal against the tribunal 's finding but varied the sentence to one of suspension for five years . |
11 | She saw her tutor 's enquiring look and dismissed her benefactor for the moment . |
12 | Elaine dismissed her husband with a wave of her hand . |
13 | Ms Siobhan Fahey ( see below ) has been explaining her emigration to the south of France . |
14 | She fears that its plans will confine her sex to a social ghetto |
15 | A woman tricked her way into an elderly woman 's Co Down home and stole money , police revealed today . |
16 | For example , in the British Picture Vocabulary Test , the child is required to point manually or to eye-point to indicate her selection from a set of pictures . |
17 | Agnes pushed Jessie towards the basin , hissing , ‘ Stay there ! ’ then hurried out of the room to meet her mother in the corridor , the while calling , ‘ I 'm coming . |
18 | ‘ To meet her couturier at the Hilton . |
19 | He had asked Christina to attend this meeting too , saying he 'd value her opinion on the revised pool plans which Paul was bringing in . |
20 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
21 | He did not deny her assertion but smiled contentedly as Constance drew her dish from the oven . |
22 | Rows of simple wooden benches drew her gaze towards the altar , where candles burned beside a tall , plain wooden crucifix . |
23 | As she drew her finger along the initials , her stomach clenched and her eyes misted . |
24 | Thérèse drew her forefinger across the cool iron and traced a zigzag . |
25 | The snorting of a horse drew her attention to the right , and she saw Scathach 's stolen mount , roughly tethered . |
26 | When she was about to move forward though , ready to go up to that front door and ring the bell , some sound drew her attention to the corner of the house . |
27 | If you think I will respect her honour to the point of releasing her , you much mistake the matter ! ’ |
28 | She found herself hurrying unnecessarily , weaving her way through the groups of people that drifted along the narrow paths , side-stepping the large and opulent prams that were moored to benches where smug mothers sat knitting and staring , dodging the children who chased each other in and out of the grown-ups ' legs . |
29 | Fran hurried across the street , weaving her way between the busy traffic towards the underground car park favoured by the staff at the radio station . |
30 | It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped . |