Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was over a year before Charlotte was allowed to take her charge , a little boy called Edward , home with her to meet her family on her day off . |
| 2 | The woman had not bothered to pull her veil across her face . |
| 3 | For some years her vision had only enabled her to find her way about her house : she could not read and could scarcely see her television . |
| 4 | Ruth wanted to hide her face in her hands . |
| 5 | The twitching grew , a bubble of laughter burgeoning inside her , and she began to giggle , trying desperately to hide her mouth with her hand . |
| 6 | In order to incite her husband against her stepson , Sigistrix , she claimed that the prince intended to kill his father , to take over Burgundy and subsequently Italy . |
| 7 | As they walked to the car , Nicky tried to slip his arm around her waist . |
| 8 | She had him standing between her thighs , and he had only to position his rod at her welcoming portals to be inside her . |
| 9 | Nothing that would lead me to inform your firm of her passing . ’ |
| 10 | Although insistent scolding , nagging and criticizing may be counter-productive , the effects of a really loud , convincing ‘ No ! ’ — the kind of short , sharp verbal ‘ shock ’ which a mother can produce when she sees her child about to poke her finger into her baby brother 's eye — may well be highly successful . |
| 11 | Perhaps she had been too old for parenthood , and then it was very sad for a girl to lose her father in her teens . |
| 12 | Not the kind of character to wear her heart on her sleeve . |
| 13 | Kelly managed to turn her head in time for his kiss to miss its target on her lips . |
| 14 | She finally emerged from the water to see her friend with her bikini-top around her neck and the bottom dangling from one ankle . |
| 15 | Soon nothing in the world existed but the heat of their bodies and the fiery threads that seemed to connect her skin to her innermost core . |
| 16 | Finding accommodation in London is difficult in any circumstances , and this couple happen to be Australians who do n't intend to stay permanently , but are anxious to see their daughter through her physiotherapy training here , and take her back with them afterwards . |
| 17 | She is called Josie ; she used to visit my flat with her boyfriend , to stage violent , public rows . |
| 18 | Instead , I directed Posi to pinpoint my position with her ceptors , then to access — discreetly , for it was probably illegal — Vadinamia 's central data store to find the nearest opening to the interior . |
| 19 | But she 's been approached by the gutter press to sell her story of her life with me and I 've had to intercept certain envelopes that have been sent in . |
| 20 | Then he gently eased her arms down , and with infinite patience began to stroke her nightdress from her body . |
| 21 | She reflected that if Time had needed to deposit its flotsam on her doorstep , could it not have taken the form of a steady young man who caught the 5.30 train home each evening , and played cricket at the weekends ? |
| 22 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 23 | as if to lure her husband into a false sense of security , she pretended in the following year that she had gone to America and had hired a secretary , called Daisy Miller , to answer her correspondence in her absence : but she herself was Daisy Miller . |
| 24 | Happy , smiling , confident , she had cheerfully tucked a stray strand of her long pale gold hair behind her ear as she waited for her sister to answer her ring at her doorbell . |
| 25 | Sheldon had become much attached to her during his time at the Lock Hospital and it is said that she asked him to embalm her body after her death , which he did . |
| 26 | As Juliet intended to visit her mother during her split shift , there was no point in going home . |
| 27 | Although each mother does her best to restrict her milk to her own young when she visits the nursery , the other babies who surround her when she arrives are so importunate that this is not easy . |
| 28 | There was the pure and unalloyed joy of reaching down to cup his passion between her hands , and of feeling a tremor go through him … |
| 29 | She will be able to give you a great deal too , if you are prepared to open your mind to her memories and experience of life , realising the significance of her ‘ past ’ to your ‘ present ’ ; and when you understand that the old are by no means always on the receiving end of their relationships , then you are ready to assemble the love , time , patience and energy you have to offer , and decide on the best way of presenting them . |
| 30 | A point deep inside the joint is skilfully selected and the pain grows so fast I have to tear my arm from her hands . |