Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back . |
| 2 | Fortunately , the result of this test proved to be negative but , given the temperance of her lifestyle , her decision to take it in the first place would , at the very least , seem as bizarre as Mr Oliver Reed , the thirst , embarking upon an assertiveness training course . |
| 3 | What Margaret had n't known were the twin reasons for her decision to immerse herself in work : her need to occupy each waking moment with creative thought so that she had no time to dwell on Marcus 's sudden vitriolic departure from her life , and the struggle for economic survival which was facing the advertising agency where she was employed . |
| 4 | She had her hand on the door , but , before she could follow through her intention to slam it in his face , Naylor gave a mighty roar of utter outrage . |
| 5 | Although the Chevalier de Boufflers was highly successful , with fifteen editions published , her attempt to place it in context in The French Revolution was harshly treated by some historians . |
| 6 | Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken . |
| 7 | Her boy-friend shot me in the leg . ’ |
| 8 | She was part of a team and content to be just that ; she did n't want to have to leave the protective colouring her job gave her in the safety of the laboratory . |
| 9 | Her body emptied itself in all its chambers . |
| 10 | Midge holds her son and her daughter-in-law by cupboard love , having become an excellent cook — ironically , her husband abandoned her in part because the food was so bad . |
| 11 | Her husband chased us in a jeep , and the oscillations of the basket told him what I was doing to his wife , and the poor man was jealous . ’ |
| 12 | Cuts and weals appeared where her surrogate hurt itself in its destructive frenzy , but she smoothed them away with a flick of her mind . |
| 13 | Only the pressure of his hand behind her head anchored her in the rushing of the storm . |
| 14 | She came last to Lachlan , and for the first time since he had startled her raised her head to look him in the face . |
| 15 | He felt it would soon be the moment to make a move , and her behaviour left him in little doubt as to what sort of move it should be . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've left it awfully late , ’ her father told her in January 1916 . |
| 17 | Her father rocked her in his arms , just as he had done when she was little , and when her mother came in with a cup of hot milk and one of her soothing tablets , she swallowed it obediently , a child again . |
| 18 | Her manner matched his in abruptness . |
| 19 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 20 | In both ( 13 ) and ( 14 ) Valerie reports the exchanges as involving a change of codes between speakers : thus in ( 13 ) her cousin addresses her in London English but Valerie 's response is in Creole . |
| 21 | After her poem drew one in reply , Ella Wrote an article in prose in the next issue in which she put a point often made in the later period ( see Chapters 5 and 7 ) by women workers , and one which is central to the debate on women 's pay generally . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's been very nice to meet you , Mr Burns — Adam , ’ she said , about to hold out her hand to shake his in farewell , but changing her mind midway . |
| 23 | At a little after one she informed him that she was ready to leave , her expression leaving him in no doubt that any objections on his part would be swiftly killed . |
| 24 | He had made her promise to keep him in touch with developments . |
| 25 | Her boyfriend found them in the back of his van , abandoned by someone months or years before their discovery , and they have collected chocolate stains from half eaten Minstrels and white smears from Quaker oats . |
| 26 | The girl herself , whether having imbibed the traditions of her family , or through the physical bond created by cohabiting , through no fault of her own , with this man , has become attached to her uncle , and while longing to be with her mother considers herself in some sense bound to him by family arrangements as if she were indeed married to him . |
| 27 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 28 | Her mother said something in a low voice , which she did n't catch . |
| 29 | ‘ Be quiet ’ her mother reproves her in a whisper . |
| 30 | She pestered her mother to enter her in the Imperial Ballet school , but two impatient years passed before she was old enough to audition , in 1891 . |