Example sentences of "[adj] face [conj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sure you did n't ring me just to tell me that , ’ she replied , in no mood for light-hearted flirtation , try to pin on a brave face though she might . |
| 2 | Rae imagined the fear in her sunless face as she scrambled up the rough bark . |
| 3 | She was too busy holding her aching face and she gave a soft murmur of pain as she drew her dressing-gown closely around her . |
| 4 | Fen seemed inordinately interested in her answer , his eyes intent on her serious face as she considered the question . |
| 5 | The shock of his touch seemed to rob her of what little control she still had , and her eyes flew open , her blurred gaze registering his gaunt face as she stared at him before his arms enveloped her . |
| 6 | Pity to cut such a pretty face but she 'd asked for it . |
| 7 | There was terror in her white face as she saw this . |
| 8 | There was a pitiful smile on her white face as she spoke . ’ |
| 9 | He remembered her white , unhappy face as she lay at his feet . |
| 10 | She always smiled and only put on an angry face when she was being teased . |
| 11 | Visions of her mother 's angry face when she told her what she knew changed into dreams of Nigel , back in hospital with bandages on his head , and David Kent with a Porsche , laughing and saying it was his now . |
| 12 | But then she remembered Matthew 's smiling face when she told him about the Avery prize . |
| 13 | His eyes narrowed on her pale , proud face as she backed away from him , her heart beating so rapidly that it was all she could do not to betray her agitation by raising her hands to calm it . |
| 14 | ‘ Never mind , ’ Fen said , studying her disgruntled face as she came aboard once more , ‘ we 'll be stopping soon and going ashore . ’ |
| 15 | He stared at her with a dead-pan face and she was not sure whether he was serious or not . |
| 16 | Rune 's eyes swept across her open face and she saw his jaw tighten momentarily as he clearly read her distress . |
| 17 | This staggered Mrs Funnell into silence , and her feelings were registered on her grim face as she watched this husband and wife whom she had never liked , classing them as common , dragging the almost inert figure up and down the bedroom . |
| 18 | As he stowed the edenwort and the kohlrabi at the back of the cupboard , he saw his mother 's strained , pale face as she boasted , unconvincingly , of her son 's prowess to a neighbour . |
| 19 | Because the fingers within her own warm hands ceased to flutter agitatedly , a brief smile flickering over the other girl 's pale face as she seemed to drift off into a more comfortable , easy sleep . |
| 20 | It swirled across her furious face and she raised her voice to an actual shout . |
| 21 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 22 | The grim look on his young face as she washed off the dried blood frightened her . |
| 23 | An ugly purple flush rose up Miss Jarman 's already heated face as she slowly realized how he had manipulated her questioning . |
| 24 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 25 | Tamar looked at her mother-in-law 's haughty face as she picked at her food , exuding boredom . |
| 26 | He suddenly stopped teasing and looked down at her lovely face as she rested against his shoulder . |