Example sentences of "[prep] her [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aunt Louise , that letter of Celia 's , what was the little bit of writing beneath ‘ Dear Mother ’ , and the bit after her name at the end ? ’ |
| 2 | And millions of viewers saw her work 24 years after her death at the age of 81 . |
| 3 | She went and fetched out the folded garments for him , and went about her business at the clay oven outside while he stripped and dressed himself again in the good Welsh clothes that had been made for him . |
| 4 | Seeing Aunt Sarah so unusually ill and helpless , Ruth was filled with grief for her sake at the news she had brought . |
| 5 | It is precisely this sort of arrangement — ‘ rooms had been taken there because they were to start by an early train on that line in the morning ’ — that leads to a fraught dinner party for Clara Amedroz and the two rivals for her hand at the Great Northern Hotel , King 's Cross , in Anthony Trollope 's The Belton Estate ( 1865 ) . |
| 6 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 7 | For her show at the Jayne M. Baum gallery she has photographed portraits of children at Montifiore Hospital who suffer from cranio-facial deformities . |
| 8 | She tried to pray for her father at the same time , but Madeleine danced across her invocation , Madeleine provocative in yellow piqué and high-heeled sandals disrupted her holy words . |
| 9 | Therefore the prosecution should try to provide corroboration for her allegation at the investigation stage , even regarding the accused 's identity ( R v Midwinter ( 1971 ) 55 Cr App R 523 ) . |
| 10 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 11 | It had been one of her favourites , during her course at the college . |
| 12 | The Times of India reported the case of a striptease artiste in the coastal resort of Goa who had been sued by the management of the five-star Hotel Kalimpong , when she refused to undress during her performance at the hotel restaurant one evening . |
| 13 | During her stay at the ICO nearly five hundred officers came under her influence . |
| 14 | Lucenzo burst into laughter himself , and she wished he had n't , a sharp jolt of awareness rocketing through her body at the dazzling transformation of his face and the deep , warm sound that had travelled through her to her tingling toes . |
| 15 | However , she was finding it difficult to stifle the waves of panic which swept through her body at the thought of being in close contact with this man who had once meant so much to her . |
| 16 | She has been an A grade student all the way through her time at the Darlington girls ' school and is a stalwart of the school 's debating society . |
| 17 | Merrill could n't keep the sharpness out of her voice at the mention of Luke 's name . |
| 18 | Marion came out of her hut at the noise , straightened , and found herself staring into Lachlan 's eyes . |
| 19 | Grants from the Theodore Stewart Fund were made to Miss R. I. Hope , towards the expenses of her attendance at the VTLS Users ' meeting in Uppsala , to Mr W.A. Kelly , in connexion with visits to libraries in what was formerly East Germany , and to Miss R. Wood , who attended workshops and lectures forming part of the Jewish Music Festival in London . |
| 20 | He taught her a position for sleeping that placed the forepart of her brain at the apex of a pyramid . |
| 21 | Because of what had happened , some of her excitement at the thought of seeing Czechoslovakia had ebbed . |
| 22 | At a reunion of her year at the university last week , not one of her dozen or so classmates could recall the tall slim Yorkshire girl with light brown hair . |
| 23 | Simply , the Queen has spent far more of her life at the heart of politics than any of the party leaders . |
| 24 | Transfer Theatre open their new devised music-theatre show THE TIME OF HER LIFE at the end of January and then go on a tour throughout the North West , Midlands and South until March . |
| 25 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 26 | A wave of tiredness came upon her , this time the full tidal memory of the strains of her life at the inn , her age , her vulnerability , her need to stand alone … |
| 27 | Helynsar ran well in the later stages of her race at the last meeting when Treat Me Good scored and she may be worth following against a moderate lot in the Moira Novices Chase . |
| 28 | Away from the defence debate Dr Mowlam also yesterday spoke of her despair at the growing homeless problem in her constituency . |
| 29 | The latter dress shows something of the influence of her education at the Moscow Institute of Architecture in the early Eighties : ‘ We studied sculpture , graphics and composition as well as architecture . |
| 30 | Elizabeth Groves , as a young girl , had been befriended by the Queen who met the cost of her education at the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb . |