Example sentences of "her face [conj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | He read in her face that she would n't leave under her own steam . |
| 2 | It was while she was wiping her face that she began to get an uncanny feeling that she was being watched . |
| 3 | He looked at her and frowned as though he would make a denial and then he saw from her face that she knew the truth . |
| 4 | He could tell by the look on her face that she counted herself among them . |
| 5 | She is looking for a dress for me and she is waiting to comb my hair , and she has the look on her face that she has when she guts the chickens . |
| 6 | A girl needed eighteen stitches to her face after she was savaged by a dog . |
| 7 | She tends to wear full denim skirts with lace borders and her hair falls over her face while she plays . |
| 8 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 9 | ‘ She 'd crack her face if she tried , ’ thought Gazzer . |
| 10 | He watched her face as she scanned the street and the square ahead for a few seconds and then moved on . |
| 11 | A wide smile of welcome broke over her face as she brought her niece into focus . |
| 12 | I 'll never forget the look of concentration on her face as she ran . |
| 13 | Julia , wearing a black leather jacket and faded jeans , hid her face as she scurried through Heathrow . |
| 14 | A flicker of a smile passed across her face as she said this . |
| 15 | She yawned and her long brown hair fell over her face as she stretched her arms out . |
| 16 | The icy wind cut across her face as she opened the door and she zipped her anorak up to her throat and tugged the protective hood over her head . |
| 17 | Her face as she stood outside the register office , with that big municipal clock behind her , ticking off those first glistening moments of nuptial bliss . |
| 18 | The tears had run down her face as she stood at the sink , washing up after tea . |
| 19 | For a few agonizing minutes the camera holds on her face as she experiences — she hardly seems to be enjoying — sexual attentions out of the range of the camera . |
| 20 | You expect her to crouch and try to put the robe on before she 's fully out of the water , or to turn her back to you , but instead there 's something like a sneer on her face as she stands up facing you and wraps the robe around herself with a kind of disdain . |
| 21 | The mirror was broken and she hated the casual glimpses she got of her face as she cleaned her teeth or when she passed the hall-stand . |
| 22 | A bovine contentment came into her face as she chewed . |
| 23 | Li Yuan , watching her , found himself spellbound by the song , transfixed by the pain in her face as she sang , and astonished that he had never heard her sing before — that he had never guessed she had these talents . |
| 24 | She danced on , oblivious , then he must have said something , and she danced seductively , fluidly , to the edge of the roof , hips moving slow , a big smile on her face as she looked down at Lewis , then she threw herself off the roof . |
| 25 | She was obviously in distress , raising herself on all fours , snatching the hair from her face as she looked back in terror at the plaster wall from which she had just come . |
| 26 | And she 'd be sitting on the edge of her chair with a smile stitched to her face as she willed the rest of the party to get a move-on so she could go and make sure Camille was home and safe . |
| 27 | By itself , half hidden against the far wall , nearly obscured by billowing folds of grey cloud that huffed sweet , damp breath into her face as she approached . |
| 28 | He wondered what was wrong , wishing he had had a chance to talk to Ruth — though from the expression on her face as she hovered behind Cashman she did n't know either . |
| 29 | She rubbed the painful scratch on her face as she spoke . |
| 30 | She was dressed in black , as always , making Riven wonder sourly if she were mourning someone , but there was a bright smile on her face as she took in the battered condition of Murtach 's patrol ; the bandaged Hearthwares , the clawed mounts and the weary eyes of them all . |