Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] her [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She toiled up the path with her packages , sheer will-power keeping her going until the four-square shape of the house came into view . |
| 2 | Holly-jack drew away , moonlight on evergreen causing her to shine among her fading friends . |
| 3 | Leonora 's heart sank at the prospect of a whole fortnight without him , and as if scenting victory Penry moved closer , his long forefinger caressing her drooping lower lip . |
| 4 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |
| 5 | Mrs Kelsall recently received a letter from the British Deaf Association asking her to discuss ideas for updating a film for mothers on maternity care . |
| 6 | Katherine Colgrave from Kidlington in Oxforshire walked into court with her mother : the hip deformity at the centre of the case causing her to limp . |
| 7 | ‘ It was Mrs Jensen from next door ? ’ she queried , the needless question helping her to feel more normal . |
| 8 | Even as she said it she recalled the growing doubts and disgust which had been another spur driving her to accept Clive 's invitation . |
| 9 | She ran from him , nightmare panic making her breathing and heartbeat echo down the long tree-lined path until she saw the moon shining through a stained-glass window of the garden of Eden . |
| 10 | ‘ If she did kill Gebrec , Banana Split will have a job getting her to admit anything . ’ |
| 11 | In fact , I had a job tempting her to eat anything else . |
| 12 | The urge to murder split her mind like an abyss luring her to jump into its raging depths . |
| 13 | The lake 's full of people — Mum wearing her Interviewing suit — Brian with knobbly knees under his grey schoolboy shorts — Gran in her Margaret Thatcher blouse — but they do n't bother me , they do n't bump into me . |
| 14 | Frightening a woman by looking into her bedsit at eleven at night causing her to fear violence was held to be immediate despite the fact that the victim could have escaped in the time it would have taken for the accused to get to her : Smith v Chief Superintendent , Woking Police Station ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 234 ( DC ) . |
| 15 | Suddenly the significance of the warmth surrounding her exploded on to her consciousness . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't lie to me any more ! ’ she raged , despair lending her anger a malicious knife . |
| 17 | She would not allow him to sidle away into the night leaving her to kow-tow to an irate Spittals in the morning . |
| 18 | Whichever way she attempts to retreat she may have the back end of a rabbit preventing her moving either way along the hole . |
| 19 | You 've probably noticed how she spends every spare minute practising her putting . |
| 20 | The only sound is the wheezing of the ventilator helping her breathe . |
| 21 | Odessa has a visa allowing her to stay in England for several months . |
| 22 | She forced her gaze onto her hands , habit scolding her to do something . |
| 23 | All that hit the floor was a glossy leaflet inviting her to discover the magic of Christmas at the local hypermarket . |
| 24 | He turned , the swift movement making her jump . |
| 25 | I got a lot of secret amusement telling her to leave me as I wanted to die . |
| 26 | Amusingly , the one threat she had encountered was from another ‘ Queen of the Night ’ , a grossly huge woman , who only felt able to emerge into the world in the dead of night , and was enraged to find another woman watching her take her secret walk in the darkness . |
| 27 | Glyn thought differently , his steady voice and cool logic urging her to see that she was refusing to face facts . |
| 28 | The rope supporting her passed over a beam , slippery with sweat and condensation , and was secured , taut as a cable , through an iron ring in the floor . |
| 29 | Without any warning whatsoever , the man holding her swung his foot back and kicked her legs out from under her with a careless , emotionless violence that wrenched a panic-stricken scream from her throat . |
| 30 | But she was too distracted to complete the denial , and the breathlessness afflicting her made it unconvincing . |