Example sentences of "her [noun] around her " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered . |
| 2 | Pulling her cloak around her and laying her fork carefully along the wooden pegs on the side of the wain , Alexandra climbed the iron railings , already cold and slippery with new snow , and went off in the direction of the kitchen . |
| 3 | She pulled her shawl around her and said : ‘ It has gone far enough . |
| 4 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ she asked ungraciously , drawing her sun-wrap around her . |
| 5 | ’ Maeve straightened up and pulled her shift around her . |
| 6 | She had gathered her robes around her , sunk to the ground and then had lifted her hand to her face ( so painfully it looked as though her wrist was broken ) with exactly the same gesture with which this man now covered his eyes . |
| 7 | She was n't aware of Piers approaching until he cast a shadow over her , and she sat up , this time not bothering to wrap her beach-robe around her . |
| 8 | And Courtney would throw her arms around her and kiss her all over her face and never let her go . |
| 9 | Flora leaned back and Anna put her arms around her . |
| 10 | ‘ I was , ’ she said , hugging her arms around her . |
| 11 | She rushed up and threw her arms around her in a totally uncharacteristic gesture of affection , and felt all the stress of Piers Morrison lift from her shoulders as they began chatting animatedly about everything under the sun , catching up on old news . |
| 12 | She gathered all her strength around her . |
| 13 | Catherine Marsden wriggled further into the corner of the hansom cab , and tucked her coat around her . |
| 14 | This brass is thought to have been made by a Flemish craftsman , and depicts a woman sitting up in a four poster bed with her children around her , and twins in a cradle alongside and at the foot of the inscription Lambarde had inscribed " No lady was more full of reverence towards God than she " . |
| 15 | She stood a moment in the sun , pulling her veils around her in one swift movement . |
| 16 | Wanted to put her arm around her , hug her , what the hell had super-brat been up to now ? |
| 17 | Both women watched as the coffin moved slowly away up the aisle , and gently , still with her arm around her , Noreen followed with Carmella . |
| 18 | She 's content with her family around her . |