Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] and [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | I helped her prepare for the date , pressing her nicest blouse , lending her my best necklace and polishing her shoes . |
| 2 | She folded her arms over her ample bosom and completed her piece of Tin Pan Alley sentiment . |
| 3 | But himself said this would happen , because I was always washin' her bloody hair and keepin' her face scab-free , unlicing her an' the rest , instead of gettin' meself out to work . |
| 4 | Fran ran a hand over her damp face and smoothed her untidy hair . |
| 5 | The girl stretched out her free hand and nodded her head . |
| 6 | Rosheen pushed away her empty plate and wiped her fingers absently on a sheet of tissue . |
| 7 | I 'd wiped her snotty nose and covered her lewd , spreadeagled indecency . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , look at me , ’ she said ruefully pushing back her tangled hair and straightening her skirts . |
| 9 | The stories Mira tells to divert her attention from her personal situation and to exercise her imaginative powers reveal the link between the conventionality of the supposedly transparent discourse of realist fiction and the conventionality of news stories . |
| 10 | Although she was gripping the rope at her shoulders , easing the weight on her head , her neck was fixed and immobile : to look at me she had to turn her entire body and raise her eyes in their sockets . |
| 11 | I took her little hand and kissed her soft cheek . |
| 12 | She was still in Frome , we may hope ; if she had nursed her younger sister and helped her father through his years of loss , she had done well indeed . |
| 13 | The anorexic patient identifies with her wasted body and declares her condition a form of self-realisation and self-expression . |
| 14 | Fernando stroked her silky hair and kissed her forehead . |
| 15 | She learned among many other things that Felicity had known Peter 's first wife quite well and admired her desperately as she struggled with her increasing disability and urged her husband to live as freely as he could . |
| 16 | She folded her arms across her stout chest and pursed her lips . |
| 17 | Fabia had no idea of how long she lay there feeling beaten , but , as she put out her small light and closed her eyes , she just did n't need to have anything more land on her plate of despair . |
| 18 | He rested the ring on her open palm and pushed her fingers closed around it . |
| 19 | Marianne took a cursory glance at her own reflection and pursed her lips disgustedly . |
| 20 | Minutes later , feeling suddenly totally exhausted by all the nervous tension of the past few hours , Shiona kissed the already sleeping Kirsty goodnight , then climbed into her own bunk and closed her eyes . |
| 21 | This was the second disappointment for my mother , who prided herself on her own intelligence and wanted her children to succeed academically , because she felt it would be the only way we could be successful in life , there being no money at home . |
| 22 | She was now a companion and friend rather than a nursemaid and domestic servant ; she prepared herself to run her own household and developed her skills as a needlewoman . |
| 23 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 24 | In 1898 Emma , Lady Sherborne , converted the Lodge into her dower house , built two little lodges to herald its and her own grandeur and to house her staff , destroyed the staircase and made the two long rooms into four apartments . |
| 25 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 26 | ‘ She is simply a normal balanced youngster who knows her own mind and goes her own way ’ Bellamy writes . |
| 27 | However , in her speech at the Lord Mayor 's banquet in London on Nov. 12 Thatcher made a spirited defence of her own record and expressed her determination to defeat any opponents . |
| 28 | Nobody expected Liz to uproot herself , like a woman , like a wife , and follow her husband to America : she was expected to stay where she was , pursuing her own career and pursuing her own inner life , whatever that might be . |
| 29 | She strokes its white flesh against her black cheek , then slides it into her red mouth and rolls her eyes to make me laugh , and I think , Jesus , is that what it 's like ? |
| 30 | Britta hung her head , so that Lacuna had to brush aside her golden hair and turn her face with cold fingers . |