Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 2 | She 's off , her long legs carrying her down the lane . |
| 3 | From time to time , too , Jenna caught Alain 's dark eyes watching her through the driving mirror , and she was greatly relieved when they began to skirt Paris . |
| 4 | Although I did not care for her looks , the yacht-like appearance had great potential for undercover work and after about two months working her around the Solent and Poole area I was quite impressed . |
| 5 | Bitter jealousy clawed at her , its sharp , painful talons filling her with an urge to scream with frustration and leaving her unable to think clearly . |
| 6 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 7 | She was barely aware of the other models joining her on the platform , followed by Rainmondo himself , something he did only for very important clients . |
| 8 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 9 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 10 | She remembered screaming , remembered one of the storm-troopers punching her in the face to stop her . |
| 11 | Only the reflective coating of her suit had prevented the enemy weapons identifying her as a target . |
| 12 | Having spent years attacking her as the author of awful policies , it is not credible to claim now that her departure hardly matters . |
| 13 | Leith , with two very large problems staring her in the face — the mortgage and Naylor Massingham , despite his action yesterday still there metaphorically breathing down her neck — thought a denial preferable to dampening her mother 's present happy frame of mind . |
| 14 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 15 | There was nothing wrong in that , except that Eleanor had little idea about the conditions awaiting her on the construction site in Alaska . |
| 16 | Her move , she said , was in no way caused by the spate of allegations linking her to the murders of the township activist Stompie Moeketsi and the Soweto physician Dr Abu-Baker Asvat and to other possible charges of kidnap , assault and theft . |
| 17 | Surely any minute she would wake up and find Marc lying beside her , his arms holding her in the loving way of barely twelve hours ago ? |
| 18 | Do you know if she has any other young men courting her at the moment ? ’ |
| 19 | The officers spent two hours telling her of the concern expressed by police and welfare authorities in England about the way Gemma had been left . |
| 20 | They sat on vinyl-upholstered chairs facing her across the desk . |
| 21 | A policewoman with long experience in dealing with sexual abuse did express the opinion that policemen can sometimes be more effective than women in encouraging very young male victims to talk about their experiences : and this policewoman was in favour of male colleagues joining her at the RUC 's specialist sexual abuse unit . |
| 22 | He said he did everything he could to calm Farrow down , including on two occasions taking her to the exclusive Carlyle Hotel and sleeping with her after she begged him to do so . |