Example sentences of "her [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tenant undertakes to obtain all his or her liquor from the brewery . |
| 2 | It was a familiar feeling from her shifts on the emergency ward . |
| 3 | Since the late 1940s the Queen Mother had been the darling of National Hunt racing : it was largely her enthusiasm for the sport that raised its status from that of a poor relation to the Flat to , by the mid-1950s , a position of near equality — in popularity if not in the prize money available . |
| 4 | But I 'll do it ! she told herself , her enthusiasm for the task growing with every stroke of her charcoal pencil . |
| 5 | The emotional distance felt by the mother will affect all of her interactions with the child . |
| 6 | Although Mrs Robinson was genuine in her sympathy for the anonymity her daughter strove for , she was Mary 's proudest admirer . |
| 7 | Because of her sympathy with the child 's point of view , and her belief that young children are frequently underestimated , Donaldson is sometimes associated with those educationalists who are opposed to formal education and who maintain that young children will learn all they need to know in informal contexts outside of school . |
| 8 | Martin had managed to inspire some kind of admiration in Clelia , and had enlisted her sympathy in the cause of his dissolving marriage . |
| 9 | She walked quickly beside the conductor , who carried her case towards the barrier . |
| 10 | He carried her case into the room she had chosen and she caught her breath as their eyes met . |
| 11 | He walked to the barrier and handed Donna her case over the rail . |
| 12 | However , Ms Mountford took her case to the House of Lords where a dramatic reversal in judicial policy took place . |
| 13 | Her case for the defence is notably restrained , unlike her treatment of the same subject in Dickon , a play published posthumously in 1953 . |
| 14 | The laughter still in his eyes , he put her case on the ottoman at the foot of the bed , turned and went out . |
| 15 | She knew that a record had been kept on the child , including an educational psychologist 's report , and that the school logbook would record other incidents , so she sought disclosure of these documents to help her in her case against the authority . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll manage , ’ she said , and made a strategic withdrawal , picking up her case from the hall as she went . |
| 17 | The idea of macro-connectionism is to shorten the distance between the expert 's reasoning at the start of a project and the capture of his or her expertise at the finish . |
| 18 | As the local group leader approached to attach the symbolic necktie to her shirt at the enrolment ceremony , Sibylle whispered to her : ‘ But Annemarie , I do n't like Hitler . ’ |
| 19 | Gail Rebuck , chief executive of Random House UK , was expected to announce a set of new appointments this week , as a further stage in her reorganisation of the company . |
| 20 | Borrowing her for dissertation research was one thing — she was sure now that this was the reason behind her removal from the hospital — but a release seemed , frankly , unlikely . |
| 21 | It is a fairly modern idea , based on ancient morality that the groom should never look upon the bride in her glory before the ceremony . |
| 22 | She tempered her approach to each medium like a professional : for newspaper journalists she spoke slowly in short , simple generalities ; on television she smiled a lot and complimented her opponents on the intelligence of their remarks ; on radio she allowed herself to be profound , even vulnerable . |
| 23 | Witty , and sharp , Sarah was seen by her contemporaries as the queen of the season especially after her father had organized a splendid coming-of-age party in 1973 at Castle Rising , a Norman castle in Norfolk . |
| 24 | Jones based her judgement on the fact that yesterday Indonesia crushed Malaysia in the qualifying round , losing just two games in their 3-0 win . |
| 25 | Her successor in the Party of Love , Moanna Pozzi , has been voted the most popular politician campaigning on television , though her ‘ seminar on eroticism ’ at an election rally was banned on the grounds of public decency . |
| 26 | Out on the corridor , Keelan took her stand under the mistletoe . |
| 27 | What was stranger still was that she seemed stressed and worried , and kept raising her wings into the wind and bending forward at it and then letting it lift her off her stand to the top of her cage where she stuck out her talons , hovered for a moment and then flopped inelegantly down again to the bare branch . |
| 28 | When Beatrice Webb publicly renounced her stand against the suffrage in 1906 , she explained in a letter to Millicent Garrett Fawcett that : ‘ The raising of children , the advancement of learning and the promotion of the spiritual — which I regard as the particular obligations of women — are , it is clear , more and more becoming the main preoccupations of the community as a whole ’ . |
| 29 | Try as Mrs Crump did — a sidle into the hallway , an uncharacteristic visit to the stables , even a late saunter down the road towards the village and the lake — she could not engineer an early encounter with the glamorous newcomer and so had to keep her patience until the morning . |
| 30 | From her navel to the base of her spine she had been ripped apart . |