Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] closed [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a brief smile in the other woman 's direction , she fled , taking refuge in the consulting-room , where she closed her eyes and leaned against the closed door , breathing hard . |
| 2 | SHe lay back , pulling Tammuz' head down on to hir breast , where he closed his eyes in a relief that was , strangely , both enervating and exhilarating . |
| 3 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 4 | The story continues with an account of how the next day when he started to get upset Little Turtle remembered what the tortoise had told him so he closed his eyes , pulled in his arms close to his body , put his head down so his chin rested against his chest , and rested for a while , until he knew what to do . |
| 5 | Sad , nostalgic , the countryside had hardly changed and , if I closed my eyes at certain parts , I was back with Master Benjamin and all those people , now long dead , travelling to a place where conspiracy , treason and sudden death became part of the very fabric of our lives . |
| 6 | Jenna smiled up at him and his face tightened with desire , his eyes burning into hers until she closed her eyes and moved willingly against him . |
| 7 | If she closed her eyes she could see again those glittering lights and hear the gay , entrancing music . |
| 8 | He was right , she could breathe , but only if she closed her eyes so she could n't see the perspex two inches from her nose ! |
| 9 | If you closed your eyes you could imagine them together on the promenade , arm-in-arm like they should be , the doctor with a silver-knobbed stick , loving one another in a public place . |
| 10 | If he closed his eyes , he was back in his own pupillage . |
| 11 | No matter how certain he might be immediately before he closed his eyes that there was plenty of space in front of him , no matter how positive he was as he walked with eyes closed that he was n't veering off to one side and there was tarmac under his feet rather than grass , he still found it very hard , almost impossible , to walk more than about twenty paces with his eyes closed . |
| 12 | Fiona 's face seemed very real as I closed my eyes and scenes of the Highlands passed before me . |
| 13 | When she closed her eyes , the sun warm on her face , she recognised the perfume of the grasses as ones she had encountered before . |
| 14 | Even when she closed her eyes they were still daggered by its scintillations . |
| 15 | But now as she closed her eyes and remembered the scene she felt an old tugging sensation in the pit of her stomach . |
| 16 | As she closed her eyes , she wondered why she had not told them about Ben right from the beginning . |
| 17 | As she closed her eyes and began to relax , though , she was rather annoyed to find her thoughts drifting back to Julius . |
| 18 | It ca n't have been anything I 've said , or can it ? ’ he added as she closed her eyes . |
| 19 | As soon as she closed her eyes a dark , austerely handsome face filled her mind , crowding out the last of her lingering fright , and when she eventually managed to get back to sleep it was to dream of Michele Lorenzo once more . |
| 20 | She lay down again , hugging the quilt around her as she closed her eyes , longing for sleep to overcome her , to give her some release from these endless , plaguing thoughts . |
| 21 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 22 | When he closed his eyes , fatigue swam up at him in a mazy spiral , making his head spin as if he were drunk . |
| 23 | When he closed his eyes , the room seemed to be turning over and over , like the Big Wheel at the fairground … . |
| 24 | The first red light of morning was shining through the window as he closed his eyes . |
| 25 | As soon as he closed his eyes he just heard the bang , ’ said Mrs Ward , of Neasham Road , Darlington . |