Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flipping on to her back , she stared at the dark ceiling , listening to the faint night-time sounds from the creek , the far-off slap of water against the bows of the fishing-boats moored below . |
| 2 | As one further measure of the rapport that was established , most respondents eventually became assured enough in her presence to express their feelings about being the subject of research . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , ‘ oh , Havvie , yes , ’ and if , when he kissed her , with the perfect decorum with which a well brought up young peer should treat a single girl — even one who had promised to be his wife — she did not feel quite the surge of passion which she had expected , she put that down to her inexperience , and his tentative handling of her , which would change with time , she knew . |
| 4 | There was little enough in her life that she could honestly say was exciting , but that morning she was a little nervous , and , yes , a little excited . |
| 5 | 44–22650 is complete down to her engines and is now displayed inside the Museum 's giant buildings . |
| 6 | She could put this down to her job . |
| 7 | Stephanie , a mere stripling of 50 , thought at first she was n't old enough for her part , but two hours of make-up , a wig and plenty of padding soon solved that problem . |
| 8 | The place itself was clear enough in her mind , there had been no surprises when she walked up the path and entered the small high room . |
| 9 | Dressed soberly in a long-sleeved , ankle-length tunic which , though cut loosely , came high up to her neck , she approached him with both hands extended in greeting . |
| 10 | Embarrassed both by her comments and by the expression on her face , Seb squeezed the hand she was resting on the cart in front of her . |
| 11 | Popular both with her peers and with adults . |
| 12 | Her office was now marked by a frieze of officers , two lounging half in and half out of her door , a third a little behind , the attention of all three directed entirely towards her desk . |
| 13 | Half out of her dress , she hooted with amusement . |
| 14 | She 's very genuine , very funky and extremely free with herself — a little crazy , half out of her mind , but very amusing . |
| 15 | He had driven her half out of her mind with little more than a few heated kisses , and the humiliation of knowing just how much she 'd wanted him burned into her . |
| 16 | It is a system where a reasonably educated person would have heard of Homer but never of Kalidas , of Ibsen but rarely of Tagore , of Joan of Arc but not of the Rani of Jhansi ( another woman who took arms to try to drive the British out of her country ) , of Goethe but not of his contemporary the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib . |
| 17 | They stared at one another unwillingly above her head , and then Alexei shrugged . |
| 18 | The raincoat kept most of it off , but her hair got a soaking even under her hood . |
| 19 | It was immaterial then in her fury that there was never any such possibility . |
| 20 | The crew of HMS Peggy , driven ashore on 19 December 1770 , the 119 members of HMS Invincible wrecked on the sands on 13 March 1801 when on her way to join Nelson 's fleet at Copenhagen , the crew of HMS Hunter , the revenue cutter , lost in 1804 , many of their crews buried under the grassy mounds in Happisburgh Churchyard . |
| 21 | She was an aristocrat and woman of royal blood , who had seen the throne pass in 518 not to her son ( who had married the Emperor Anastasius 's daughter ) , but to an uneducated provincial , Justin , the illiterate soldier-son of an Illyrian peasant . |
| 22 | I wanted to get her right away from her family , they 're a disrupting factor , I do n't mind telling you . |
| 23 | Margery became pregnant soon after her wedding , was continually sick during the pregnancy , and had a difficult childbirth . |
| 24 | And has come with me , and bored out of her mind , and not understood it . |
| 25 | I think she 's erm they like take so much out of her pension but she 's not gon na need owt any way and then erm I think government or whatever put rest . |
| 26 | Rory tried to look reproachful even through her laughter . |
| 27 | Golarsa , a Wimbledon quarter-finalist in 1989 , took four games running to move 5–4 ahead with her service to follow . |
| 28 | When the counsellor asked him how he felt about not having sex , he replied that he thought that sex was often ‘ overblown ’ and that , anyway , he did not want to bother Sarah with his attentions , because she had so much else on her plate . |
| 29 | She knew that the fussy , frilly bridal gown did not suit her but had accepted it , as she had accepted so much else in her life , for her mother 's sake . |
| 30 | Mrs Singh had now effectively become cut off from her children 's education just as Balbinder had been cut off from local peer group relationships . |