Example sentences of "her [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're aw' the same , ’ Isa lifted her knitting out the carrier together with a badly printed pattern clipped from a copy of The People 's Friend that she had found on the train to Wemyss Bay . |
| 2 | That is why I stooped to traffic with the Man-greedy Frost Giantess , and why I intrigued with her to drive out the Gruagach and why I helped the Gruagach to vanquish the High King and take Tara . ’ |
| 3 | I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you . |
| 4 | She could n't think what had made her blurt out the goading words . |
| 5 | While studying spinning in Huddersfield ( as part of her degree course in textile design at Middlesex Polytechnic ) there had been no time for her to try out the machine , so the then sceptical technician told her to come back later . |
| 6 | She had long ago stopped resenting their original professional clashes , and these days their disagreements tended to be over minor details , with her ending up the victor as often as he did . |
| 7 | They only wanted her to clean out the drain with a stick . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Why do n't you ask her to sort out the food ? |
| 9 | I was n't really listening , just waiting for her to pick up the phone . ’ |
| 10 | He reached past her to pick up the papers , a faint smile curling his chiselled lips as he scanned the typewritten sheets . |
| 11 | Afterwards he took her to pick up the ring . |
| 12 | Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in . |
| 13 | Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes . |
| 14 | Once in , it seemed nothing , absolutely nothing , could make her give up the job she loved . |
| 15 | This almost welcoming message kept her going down the raccordo to Siena . |
| 16 | Although the Empress submitted momentarily , divisions within the nobility enabled her to tear up the councillors ' terms . |
| 17 | Hands at her mouth , she bolted to the bathroom , slamming the door behind her to shut out the sounds of her vomiting as her stomach relieved itself of its contents with such violence that she was left retching drily long afterwards until the spasms died away . |
| 18 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 19 | Wycliffe opened the door , waited for her to switch out the lights and pass through , then he locked the door and pocketed the keys . |
| 20 | I did n't expect to see her coming out the side door like that . ’ |
| 21 | The girl who was dressing her pulled up the zipper while Paula kicked off a pair of black suede shoes and eased her feet into crocodile ones . |
| 22 | Tweed , who had refused to let her take over the wheel , appeared outwardly to be perfectly relaxed as he stopped and presented the passport in the name of William Sanders . |
| 23 | Now that she knew Betty was here because she pitied her and not because she liked her , she felt less threatened and decided that she would just let her take over the cooking and do as she wished in the kitchen . |
| 24 | In a great gesture of trust , Josie let her switch off the lights unsupervised . |
| 25 | I helped her keep up the house . |
| 26 | They heard her go down the passage , then the disagreement about telephoning the police was renewed . |
| 27 | Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died . |
| 28 | For some reason , he did n't want her to check out the vault . |
| 29 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
| 30 | Finally Anne de Villepoix continues her wander round the human body : after last month 's corsets hung in the air , John Coplans has fragmented self-portraits : ten busts , arms and black and white photographs laid out like architectural structures . |