Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every nerve-ending felt exposed , her skin almost painful to the touch as she moved her hands across his warm skin , touched each muscle until it tensed , then slid her palms over his smooth back and buttocks . |
| 2 | With her mind wide open to this new enticing prospect , a desire so unexpected and untested , she wanted no audience . |
| 3 | She has also freelanced as translator of art-historical material from German and French , finding her degree very relevant to this part of her work . |
| 4 | I make her sound too colourless to you . |
| 5 | She crept about , grasping the suitcase , putting her eye very close to each of the two bell-pushes in turn . |
| 6 | At the window overlooking the garden the young girl with whom he is living sits painting — tiny brush strokes , with her head very close to the work , silent , absorbed . |
| 7 | According to Celac , Elena came to dominate her husband as he grew older , though he attributes her authority as much to her marginally more elevated social origins as to her sex . |
| 8 | The present monarch of Great Britain has recently been the subject of criticism for failure to all make her collection readily available to her subjects . |
| 9 | She leaves her door wide open to the dark . |
| 10 | Feeling her strength almost equal to Nana 's , Martha thrashed her arm to break her grasp . |
| 11 | Still the mannequins were appearing , their elongated clothes-horse frames moving with a grace which belied their tight-drawn nerves , still the bursts of applause rang out to drown the persistent clicking of the cameras , but Harriet leaned back against her pillar almost oblivious to them . |
| 12 | If we printed details of the case it would make her identity too plain to the authorities but suffice it to say that she was detained with some others for celebrating a ‘ banned person ’ — Nelson Mandela . |