Example sentences of "taking her [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking her chin between his thumb and forefinger , he held her face so that he could scrutinise it . |
| 2 | He sat down on the edge of the bed and , taking her chin between finger and thumb , lifted her face to his and asked crisply , ‘ So what 's wrong ? ’ |
| 3 | Emily had become accustomed to taking her meals with Letty ; there was no dining-room in her lodgings , only one small sitting-room apart from the two bedrooms and it was convenient to eat in the kitchen , keeping the sitting-room as an office . |
| 4 | Maria flung Luke Scott a hostile look as he and Cavell Fielding appeared just as she was taking her leave of Giles and Ursula Estwick , with Florian and Nicky on either side of her . |
| 5 | ‘ If only I had some money put by , ’ he told Rosie , as he was taking her home to the pub one evening . |
| 6 | The family had just picked her up from hospital in Oxford and were taking her home to Swindon . |
| 7 | When his character leaps at Eileen after taking her home from a jazz club , he starts a chain reaction involving a dog , all the cats in the district , crying babies , shouting neighbours and the sound of breaking glass . |
| 8 | Her name was Gail Danski , a prim-looking chick , but not so prim when you got her into a dark corner , as he had once discovered when taking her home after a school dance . |
| 9 | She ‘ just misses ’ trains , turns up hours late for dates , makes sure we 're the last to arrive at parties , dawdles getting ready to go out , then tears around hysterically , taking her irritation with herself out on me . |
| 10 | Rebecca 's out , taking her daughter to the health centre , and I 'd ask Rourke , but he 's at the Brooksby plant again this morning . ’ |
| 11 | I wonder if she 'll change her time because of half term and she wo n't have to be taking her daughter to nursery school today , half past one . |
| 12 | A TEESSIDE pensioner is taking her fight for better British pensions to Brussels this weekend . |
| 13 | A foreigner , taking her space in a car park in London ! |
| 14 | She too was taking her degree in the social sciences . |
| 15 | And , quickly taking her name on board , ‘ You are here in Czechoslovakia on business and holiday , Fabia , I think ? ’ |
| 16 | The only reason Janine had cheered up was because she was taking her child from her . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's just a matter of being sensible , ’ said Tessa , lighting the gas-stove and filling the kettle , without taking her overcoat off either . |
| 18 | " Tilda , " said Martha , stopping suddenly and taking her sister by the shoulders , " I 'll give you anything you like , within reason , to go back to the boats and stay there . " |
| 19 | ‘ Miriam is merely taking her cue from him when she makes nothing of emotion . |
| 20 | Taking her cue from this , Anne smiled at Nick , who was sitting tearful and sullen between the other silent , puzzled children . |
| 21 | ‘ I really am very upset at the moment , ’ Evelyn replied , taking her cue from Newman . |
| 22 | Taking her cue from Jessica , she raised her nose a little higher . |
| 23 | Taking her cue from him , Fabia realised then that perhaps barely to step over his threshold and then at once to launch into the dozens of questions she must ask him was perhaps , in this gracious room , rather graceless . |
| 24 | We went through many dark passages until we reached a door , where she left me , taking her candle with her . |
| 25 | So had the warm gushing blood that streamed out of her body , taking her life with it . |
| 26 | Slowly , almost wearily , he straightened , taking her gaze with him . |
| 27 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
| 28 | Brushing her wispy fringe away from her hot forehead , she settled the strap of her bag over her shoulder and , taking her case in one hand and her grip in the other , struggled off the bus . |
| 29 | Much nearer to the intense spirit of the original staging is Christine Bunning 's Marenka , taking her tone from the opening duet with Jenik , which can so easily project the character as a social and emotional misfit . |
| 30 | Defeated in the 1922 general election for Dáil Éireann , she secured a seat in Dublin in the 1923 election but abstained from taking her seat as a Sinn Fein republican . |