Example sentences of "her [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother was becoming suspicious at the amount of time she spent in her room , but Lizzie had told her everyone liked to be on their own at times . |
| 2 | ‘ You know I ca n't go buying her nothing ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You owe her nothing . ’ |
| 4 | As Rose had predicted , it brought her nothing but trouble . |
| 5 | Scolding a child for being ‘ a bad boy ’ or ‘ a dirty girl ’ is not educative ; telling a child to do something ‘ because I say so ’ teaches her nothing useful . |
| 6 | If she learns that they bring her nothing but exhaustion , she will try to avoid them . |
| 7 | Her own afforded her nothing but a transient thrill , but mine supplied another dose of semen to chuck at the uterine wall where , sooner or later , she reckoned , some of it must stick . |
| 8 | The glance had told her nothing except that he had retreated into himself again . |
| 9 | The old woman had told her nothing . |
| 10 | A discreet little paragraph entitled ‘ Escape from Rampton ’ told her nothing new . |
| 11 | But , as she could tell the 1992 contestants lining up today in South Africa 's Sun City , it brought her nothing but heartache . |
| 12 | We told her nothing of our horrible experience . |
| 13 | If Benjamin had given her nothing else in their life together he had given her this child , and for that Sarah would forgive him anything . |
| 14 | Ireland had caused her nothing but trouble , and not only her , but those she held dear . |
| 15 | If Ireland was a woman — as the poet Yeats kept saying — then she was a banshee , a fairy woman , who brought with her nothing but death and despair . |
| 16 | Seven years ago he 'd gone away , leaving her nothing but the cup to remember him by ; it was so long ago that Crazy Jake , with his wide strange eyes and his queer stories , seemed more like a creature from a dream than a flesh-and-blood father . |
| 17 | In the distance the curving edge of it ; everywhere else below her nothing but the flat expanse of mottled brown and grey . |
| 18 | Jezrael-Ayesha opened her mouth to say something but her brain gave her nothing to say . |
| 19 | ‘ You can bring her nothing but trouble and misery . |
| 20 | But the touch told her nothing . |
| 21 | The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider . |
| 22 | They told her nothing , paperbacks and hardbacks mixed indiscriminately , a wide variety of titles and subjects and a few back editions of The Writers ' and Artists ' Yearbook . |
| 23 | If she did , he would feel obliged to tell her nothing . |
| 24 | No doubt Bonard was as hard-headed as the next man in matters of business , but to tackle anyone so obviously grief-stricken on such a comparatively trivial point seemed to her nothing short of callous . |
| 25 | Two small offices and a staff locker room , all unoccupied ; she gave a quick once-over to the noticeboard just inside the door , but it told her nothing . |
| 26 | A year ago , Selina 's two-hour session of candlelit fund-raising would have gained her nothing more than a clout round the ear ( I 'd have done it nice , mind you , not in the restaurant or anything like that but in the Fiasco or back at the sock ) . |
| 27 | She had not known what to expect from this side of marriage since there was no literature available to her on the subject and her mother had told her nothing . |
| 28 | For a moment she almost lied to him and told him he had brought her nothing . |
| 29 | She shrugged casually , hating to spoil the impression of intimacy between herself and Piers by confessing that he had told her nothing . |
| 30 | His expression told her nothing had changed . |