Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] her " in BNC.
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1 | He could only remember their mother telling them through her tears to be strong , and to have faith . |
2 | On the other hand , requiring the child to reproduce phrases and sentences may lead to a lower level of performance as the child seeks to make sense of the adult constructions and in doing so reinterprets them through her own emerging system of grammatical rules . |
3 | When he opened the door of his sitting-room , Mike Pumfrey saw Mrs Crumwallis , seated bony and straight-backed on a sofa , peering concentratedly at them through her pebble glasses . |
4 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
5 | The nurses say she 's even helped get THEM through her ordeal . |
6 | Nurse found them and cracked them between her fingernails the way Smallfry sometimes did when he was made to kneel with his head in her lap , breathing her perfume and savouring the rare closeness of her . |
7 | Weightless with introspection she observed her hands as she had in the Big Bamboo , with their veins like injured worms — big , workaday hands — and hid them between her army-surplus thighs . |
8 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
9 | I had seen him turn human with Margaret , but that glimpse had not been enough to tell me now whether he had stopped on recognizing me for her sake or because I was a Benedict 's nurse . |
10 | I rely on everybody else , but she has to rely on me for her food and comfort . |
11 | ‘ So you do blame me for her blindness , ’ he said menacingly . |
12 | ‘ And to blame me for her bitterness is the height of absurdity ! |
13 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |
14 | She urged me to go with her to concerts and the theatre , and took me as her guest to the Edinburgh International Club which , owing to the presence of so many servicemen from overseas , was then an active and flourishing society . |
15 | And then he said suddenly , ‘ That phone call Ah was waitin' fur — it was from the hotel Iris had given me as her address in Lima . |
16 | I here were other police present , and after the announcement she spoke to one of them about her sister Laura . |
17 | Liz was prepared to allow the therapist to talk to her parents , but she did not want her to tell them about her problems concerning the shop , preferring to discuss these with them herself . |
18 | They reassured Pamela that they did trust her , but added that they hoped she would feel more able to be open with them about her social life . |
19 | Unwanted and unloved by her parents , Cassie felt unable to tell them about her hated uncle 's secret visits |
20 | When she told them about her mother 's letter he simply nodded , as if their going away was n't important . |
21 | ‘ Our mother says she does n't know where he puts it all , he 's so thin , ’ Carrie said , and as soon as she had spoken it struck her that she had never talked to them about her mother before . |
22 | She told them about her house and that the managers were calling her a thief . |
23 | The company also said that Mrs Hampton should have told them about her illness when she was interviewed for the job . |
24 | But she was quite ready to assign her nuclear units to a NATO Multinational Force ; indeed , she was , in effect , already doing so through the joint targeting of her V-bombers with the US Strategic Air Command , subject to her right to use them for her own purposes if vital national interests were at stake . |
25 | She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter . |
26 | They had always written off their mother 's manoeuvres as tribal tactics devised to keep the two of them for her kind , with their father as some sort of lower ally in the endeavour , more deeply absorbed by his autonomy and his cigars than by the dynamics of living with his wife . |
27 | He fishes for oysters and leaves them for her lunch . |
28 | But she does do them for her family and friends . |
29 | Yes , she made them for her teacher 's as well , they 'll chocolates . |
30 | Just to get me off her back ? ’ |