Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She desperately needs security not love and this is what Mitch offers her and the young men whom she likes so much do not . |
| 2 | The description fits her , Brother . |
| 3 | I ca n't understand why Mum hates her . |
| 4 | Her Sierra covers her demanding journey briskly and economically . |
| 5 | Ms Leaming tells it all with vim , though the gossip turns her on far more than the movies : ‘ Aly practised an Eastern art of love known as Imsak , which allowed him to exercise indefinite control … ’ |
| 6 | Friends of Mia , 47 , say director Woody owes her £195,000 after she agreed to appear in his movie A Manhattan Murder Mystery . |
| 7 | The note says ‘ her mummy loves her ’ but can not look after . |
| 8 | Jean interrupts her before she has a chance to fumble into what those things are . |
| 9 | In ( 14 ) her mother uses Creole ( and this is very clearly intended to be a direct quote , even a send-up , of her mother 's refusal ) , while Valerie answers her in London English . |
| 10 | Despite his growing involvement , he ca n't scratch her from the list and another murder casts her every action in chilling , ambiguous light . |
| 11 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 12 | Hilton warns her not to skimp these obligatory verbal prayers in her enthusiasm for the new contemplation . |
| 13 | But the association of menstrual blood pollutes her and she loses for ever the pristine purity of a female child . |
| 14 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 15 | Through which Eos shows her brightening eye . |
| 16 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |
| 17 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |
| 18 | Scott sees her as Manchester 's star turn . |
| 19 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 20 | Brah 's review of the debate about the inclusiveness and limitations of the category ‘ black ’ and of the often fractious engagement between feminism and antiracism shows her to be not unsympathetic to this post-structuralist perspective . |
| 21 | The barman hands her a second drink , a Tennents . |
| 22 | A runaway horse takes her to her ancestral home , and her past unfolds . |
| 23 | But this woman has some of both of these feelings , as well as more fear than the others , and even the fear excites her . |
| 24 | The formalist critic dismisses her as a serious contender for the mantle of ‘ modern artist ’ due to a perceived lack of innovation and refusal of the essentialist mandate of formalism . |
| 25 | Her friend Rory Scott remembers her eating a 11b bag of sweets in short order during a bridge evening while her admission that she ate a bowl of custard before she went to bed added to the perplexity concerning her diet . |
| 26 | When Lizzie Hexam wishes to hide herself to escape from Headstone and also Wrayburn , Riah assists her to find employment among the kindly people of his race in a retired spot . |
| 27 | Later , in the interplay of presence and absence , the lover expresses her yearning for her absent lover : |
| 28 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 29 | that she actually has officially erm the Prime Minister 's political adviser briefs her on events in the war , or has been briefing her . |
| 30 | ‘ Darling , ’ said Elinor , ‘ shall Maisie stay with Mummy and do her cello practice while Mummy helps her ? ’ |