Example sentences of "her words [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zsuzsa , the eldest , is effortlessly fluent in English ; although her words are outgoing there is a certain watchfulness in her manner . |
| 2 | Her words are a celebration of the miracle of birth . |
| 3 | She murmurs , but her words are indistinct . |
| 4 | Her accent is gentler than the others , and her words are clipped as though she was schooled in England as child , though I know she was n't . |
| 5 | The implication of her words was obvious , but it would have been wiser of her to have left them unspoken . |
| 6 | She knew that her voice was slow and her words were spaced . |
| 7 | Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds . |
| 8 | Joan flushed with pleasure but her words were guarded . |
| 9 | Her words were lost in the sound of grinding gears , and the car leaped away from the sidewalk , knocking Mrs Frizzell 's hat askew and leaving her mouthing furiously at nobody . |
| 10 | Her head was bent and her words were hardly audible above the noise of the traffic as she said , ‘ What 's the good in loving someone you … you can never have ? ’ |
| 11 | Her words were scarcely audible . |
| 12 | She sat down and began to pour out the tea and , her voice still quiet , she went on , ‘ I do n't suppose it 's really so bad for you , instructing or teaching , whatever it is you do , but in the Naafi , amidst the clatter — ’ she now looked at him and her words were spaced as she went on , ‘ and the chaff and the ribbing ; well , I sometimes think I have died and gone to hell , because that 's what I think hell must be like ; constant joking , especially when you hear the same thing repeated over and over again . ’ |
| 13 | He was staring at her , amazed at the reaction her words were having on him ; it was , in a way , as if she were suffering an agony similar to his own . |
| 14 | Just 50 yards away her words were echoed by Roy Rice , manager of the recession-hit Churchill shopping centre . |
| 15 | Her words were an implied criticism and he read her well . |
| 16 | But her words were Jean-Claude 's and he wanted me to think his thoughts . |
| 17 | Her words were written down by recorders , whom she sometimes exhorted to write faster to keep pace with her . |
| 18 | Two small whiskies and her words were unguarded . |
| 19 | Her words were partly lost in Barbara Coleman 's wild cry . |
| 20 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 21 | Too late Polly realised that her words were open to a very different interpretation from the one she intended , and her heart sank as the woman 's face creased into a hard-edged cynical smile . |
| 22 | Jessamy knew her words were cruel , but she felt as if she had been pushed very near to her limit . |
| 23 | Penny Warlock , twenty-three , pretty and serious-minded , believed in God , and her words were not random aspirations . |
| 24 | Her words were enveloped by his swooping mouth again , covering hers . |
| 25 | Her words were brisk , like the beak of a bird , and nasal . |
| 26 | ‘ Starving , ’ she murmured , meeting his intense gaze , knowing her words were dangerous , exciting , heavy with sensuous meaning . |
| 27 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 28 | Her words were barely audible , so light that they threatened to float away on the breeze . |
| 29 | Her words were lost in a fit of coughing , and at once he dragged her to her feet , supporting her across Water Gypsy 's gangplank . |
| 30 | But her words were cut off , his mouth capturing hers , denying its freedom of speech . |