Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] her [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Other than this job , ’ she added challengingly , some perverse part of her almost wishing he would attempt to deprive her of it so that she would have something real , present and immediate to fight him for . |
| 2 | For her own part , there was never any question of her not studying science and she is the best sort of role model because of her enthusiasm : ‘ Just finding out what makes things work . |
| 3 | The woman led him away , leaving Charlotte to wander into a long pine-panelled room with a huge stone fireplace at the far end and a picture window to her right commanding a view of the terraced front garden and the curving drive up which she had walked . |
| 4 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 5 | ‘ Now we can keep an eye on her here knowing that usually the blood pressure will soon settle . ’ |
| 6 | Esther Ward was clearly agitated , her bony fingers plucking at the frayed leather of the desk-top , and a nervous look in her unusually penetrating blue eyes that sent a shiver through the man standing before her . |
| 7 | He fostered her slight talent for drawing , largely derivative from his own work , and saw genius in her strangely haunting imagery . |
| 8 | He bent his head to brush a kiss against her faintly protesting lips , the slight shift of her body closing the infinitesimal barrier between them . |
| 9 | Dyson remembered , at the sight of her silently writing , that she had been nagging him . |
| 10 | He put more logs on the fire and she sat on the floor with her back resting against a settle . |
| 11 | It was a theatrical triumph of erotic lighting , sinuously contouring her limbs , sensually flowing upon her in silver caresses , dipping here and there in shaped shadow , shining elsewhere like an extra layer on her already sheening , coffee-coloured skin . |
| 12 | She says that one reason for her not going out is that upstairs there are about one thousand people assaulting children . |
| 13 | Doubts arose over the length of time which might elapse before the child ceased to be regarded as ‘ newly born ’ , and the Infanticide Act 1938 extended the definition to the killing of a child within twelve months of its birth by a mother whose mind is disturbed either by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child . |
| 14 | ‘ There is a high risk of her not surviving the transplant but she is in a hole now . |
| 15 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 16 | She saw the utter concentration on his face as he watched his hand move , tracing a line from her frantically beating pulse to the V of her shirt , slipping inside to close about her breast . |
| 17 | The last thing she wanted to do was to encourage their flaring in response to an incautious comment , especially as , since he had got his own way about her not flying out that day , his behaviour had been impeccable . |
| 18 | Again Leith wanted to tell him he could forget all idea of her ultimately becoming his cousin by marriage , but again , she found she could not . |
| 19 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 20 | In view of her continuously rising urea and creatinine concentrations and persistent oliguria , plans were made for haemoperfusion . |