Example sentences of "of her [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Steffi never misses a chance of coming to Britain , not only for tournaments , and she told me of her delight at discovering a street market on a recent visit . |
| 32 | At the same time , his hand slid the length of her spine with tingling and devastating slowness , to fasten on the curve of her hip , urging her body to an even more intimate pressure against his . |
| 33 | Against this backdrop , the small Russian girl stood out on her open-air stage and put all of her concentration into learning the role of a waitress . |
| 34 | At the New Realists show people became part of her sculpture by throwing darts . |
| 35 | Her picture on the cover of Elle magazine , when she was still a schoolgirl of fifteen from a strict bourgeois family , led her to Roger Vadim , who let her out of her birdcage by marrying her in 1952 despite parental reluctance . |
| 36 | She found it was not possible even to get up out of her seat without shoving people , elbowing her way , pushing past them . |
| 37 | And she made clear only last week the depth of her opposition to giving the European Parliament more power . |
| 38 | Agnes looked at Sadie out of the corner of her eye without turning round . |
| 39 | When he slid his fingers across the spring of gold curls , parting the intimate secret of her , finding the hard nub of her womanhood before slipping below to the hot , molten tightness at her centre , she tensed and then capitulated in a flood of aching heat , and she heard herself say his name , moan his name again and again . |
| 40 | at the dismissal date she is incapable because of her pregnancy of doing the work which she is employed to do ; or |
| 41 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 42 | Their mother inevitably expends a great deal of her energy in providing them with milk and the task of carrying them as well is too much for her . |
| 43 | She was treated with nebulised salbutamol , which relieved the symptoms , and was reassured and asked to attend the general medical unit of her hospital for follow up . |
| 44 | She gave a cool glance in return , cautiously pleased that so far she had betrayed nothing of her reaction at standing so close to him . |
| 45 | ‘ Keep still , ’ he murmured , and bent to drop a warm kiss on the tender nape of her neck before tying the ribbon . |
| 46 | A HIGH-FLYING executive hounded out of her job after complaining of sexual harassment by her boss has won the maximum award of Pounds 10,000 . |
| 47 | The importance of the question of her marriage in 1093 arose from the policy of her father in seeking a general settlement of his relations with the new Norman kingdom of England . |
| 48 | Lady Franklin , a ‘ lioness of a woman ’ with a lively sense of curiosity and a keen intelligence , devoted much of her time to promoting the visual arts in the infant colony , and took an avid interest in Mrs Gould 's work for her husband . |
| 49 | In order to help him , she will have to devote some of her time to defining something that he would really like to do , and doing it with him . |
| 50 | She has devoted much of her time to bringing up three children and is the only person to classify herselfas a housewife in her reply . |
| 51 | Her mother , Juanita Beckett , daughter of a brigadier-general and granddaughter of a field marshal , was an enthusiastic but not especially talented pianist , and devoted much of her time to practising a particularly thunderous rendition of Sibelius 's Valse Triste . |
| 52 | But she also devotes some of her time to showing schoolchildren just where their food comes from . |
| 53 | At the local community level , Ms Urizio has devoted much of her time to working with a grassroots action group in an underprivileged area of Rome . |
| 54 | As Harriet Taylor was devoting the majority of her time to working with Mill , John Taylor had in the meantime been diagnosed as having cancer . |
| 55 | A gentle , flower-garlanded goddess , Lakshmi spent a great deal of her time in contemplating the universe and bestowed gifts of calm and wisdom upon those mortals who sought to emulate her through transcendental meditation . |
| 56 | I was pleased to see his grin varnish when Mala gave him the vicious edge of her tongue for ignoring the Ardakkean request for discretion , causing the FedPol squad to visit Vadinamia . |
| 57 | For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment . |
| 58 | It had been a part of her intention in coming here to banish those shades : already it seemed they were darkening her mind as surely as they still lowered across her father 's . |
| 59 | That had certainly been part of her reason for slipping away . |
| 60 | Frankie peered around the angle of the wall , trying to measure the length of her chain before judging it safe to enter by the back door . |