Example sentences of "on her [noun sg] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked up into the thin face of Edward Morris . |
| 2 | One of his rawboned hands descended on her shoulder and she felt a flash of excitement . |
| 3 | His hand rested briefly on her shoulder and she felt the colour surge into her cheeks . |
| 4 | She felt a hand resting lightly on her shoulder and she turned to look at Craig , almost unrecognizable now with his beard grown and his moustache thick and dark above his mouth . |
| 5 | He put his head on her shoulder and she turned and picked him up and sat him on her broad lap , her arms tight about him . |
| 6 | Mama Sipcott 's butter sauce was gleaming on her chin and she looked very beautiful . |
| 7 | She had left the note in an addressed envelope on her desk and it had vanished . |
| 8 | Then she felt the coverlet being pulled off the bed and João was on top of her and his sweet breath was in her face and his mouth over her mouth ; he was forcing her legs apart until she thought she would split ; he was trying to lift them right up over his shoulders , and at the same time trying to enter where she was impossibly small , cursing at his lack of success and finally grunting and gasping , until she felt a little damp fountain on her belly and he rolled off the bed and pattered quickly from the room . |
| 9 | There was a sharp tap on her door and it swung in , shutting quickly behind him . |
| 10 | She held an ebony flute with silver keys on her lap and she caressed it absently as she listened to Francie . |
| 11 | ‘ He left her lying there motionless in her own hall , the walls spattered with her blood , lying on her back and he carried on with his plan to steal , ’ Mr Burke said . |
| 12 | It was probably the only thing she had to put on her back and he had ruined it . |
| 13 | I hoped he was reminding her that she had his bucket on her back and he did n't want it covering with dents . |
| 14 | I put her on her back and she 's gone back to sleep . |
| 15 | He laid a cool hand on her forehead and she suffered new agonies beneath the touch of his fingers . |
| 16 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 17 | His hands strayed down to a spot just below the first frill on her skirt and he pushed his hips against hers so that she could clearly feel the bulge between his legs . |
| 18 | She turned from the mirror now , with a smile on her face and I wondered if her unease had just been an illusion of my own . |
| 19 | She did The Old Man and the Seal with ease , acting old , acting a big man and swimming the breast-stroke in the air , and they got it almost immediately and then she flopped on to Conrad 's knee and he laid his wine-filled head on her breast and somebody wiped a smear of black kohl from her cheek and she felt like a child again and thought of how Gabriel had nursed his little girl to sleep when she had been tired and fading away . |
| 20 | He gave her a light push on her breast and she staggered backwards , almost falling . |
| 21 | He touched the woman on her arm and she turned and smiled up at him . |
| 22 | Then she turned on her heel and we marched back down the hall . |
| 23 | Her eyes stayed on her coffee and she did n't say anything to that . |
| 24 | A great flush spread on her throat and she drove her heels into the sand and arched her back , whispering his own name to him like a fierce incantation . |
| 25 | I said I 'd ring her up on her birthday and I did n't |
| 26 | It 's more comfortable if Herta lies on her side and I take up position behind her . |
| 27 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 28 | Well I know the night Lindsey was smoking and she had or something but smelt the smoke on her breath and he got the belt and he gave her a belt and I lay in bed Kay and I cried |
| 29 | She ranged it beside a dozen other pots and jars and bottles on her dressing-table and it looked well . |