Example sentences of "in her [noun] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had thrown Luke to the ground , herself on top of him , and when the yelling and the thudding and the terrible , high-pitched howling of collective terror had been over , when the cavalry had charged through the crowd like a scythe through a cornfield and silence such a silence had fallen , she had opened her eyes and seen blood everywhere , in her hair and her hands , all over the stupefied , half-suffocated child . |
| 32 | She barely had time to struggle to her feet before cruel fingers tangled in her hair and her face was jerked up to the light . |
| 33 | She puts conditioner in her hair and her wet |
| 34 | She felt his fingers in her hair and his arm tight about her , and her bones turned to liquid . |
| 35 | She dodged sideways but her frozen muscles would n't respond and she half fell , clawing upwards again like an athlete on the starting-block but another shot scorched through the mud in her hair and she slumped to her knees in despair . |
| 36 | She stood up , her eyes burning , and began walking steadily towards the water , but before she could get there she felt his hand in her hair and he pulled her to face him . |
| 37 | I just kept seeing her , in her pigtails and her funny long uniform coat , flying across the road and slamming into a car . |
| 38 | The adrenalin hurt : her shallow , panicked respiration frizzed in her brain and her heart beat so fast she felt sure it would burst . |
| 39 | The question hammered in her brain and her great desire was to be alone . |
| 40 | She had summat growing in her brain and she died . |
| 41 | Feel like saying well if you 're in charge of it , just keep a set that will fit Clare in her size and we 'll have it . |
| 42 | Ruth was sitting on the edge of the bed , a towel in her lap and her nightgown bunched up round her waist . |
| 43 | He had his head in her lap and his eyes shut , listening to the sea and the faint call of gulls . |
| 44 | Her hands fell idle in her lap and she stared around her at the bits of leather on the floor , at the row of wooden lasts along her bench , at the boots that needed new soles and heels and , with a sigh of despair , she dropped her knife and rose to her feet . |
| 45 | The knitting was in her lap and she was regarding me steadily over the spectacles . |
| 46 | There was a pain like a red-hot brand in her chest and her stomach groaned with hunger . |
| 47 | Paige could feel her heart beating like a trapped bird in her chest and her senses reeled . |
| 48 | For Rachel Ashwell ( pictured left ) , everything 's coming up roses — both in her home and her working life . |
| 49 | They wanted military bases for their soldiers in her country and she did not want them . |
| 50 | Standing there in her denims and her cotton T-shirt , she looked like a lost , lonely child . |
| 51 | As soon as the camera lights were switched on , it triggered the churning emotions in her heart and she broke down and wept inconsolably . |
| 52 | His wife looked like a film star and sounded like a docker , and on their previous visits I 'd managed to remain invisible while checking in her mink and his Crombie . |
| 53 | There was just a slight chink in her armour and he pressed a little further . |
| 54 | She knew without being told that Ana was walking in her sleep and she was filled with horror at the girl walking through the gate and beyond , perhaps waking late and not knowing where she was , unable to see . |
| 55 | Her soft blue eyes hardened as they had never done before in her life and she met his gaze head-on . |
| 56 | This did not prevent Minton 's relationship with Susan Einzig becoming , for her , one of the most important in her life and his positive influence on her as an artist endures to this day . |
| 57 | I shall also attempt with Dorothy Heathcote , as I have with the other pioneers , to point to innovations or assumptions which are implicit in her work and which she herself may not have articulated . |
| 58 | With a great effort she immersed herself in her work and it was n't until Myra put her head round the door that she realised how quickly the time had gone . |
| 59 | She 'd often been accused of impersonality in her work and it was the criticism that stung her most . |
| 60 | She was in her bed and it felt about two o'clock in the morning . |