Example sentences of "and [adv] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But she returned and eventually her husband was shot dead by her father . |
2 | But the battle was in vain , and McAllister , like Dr Neil and Rose , had to watch while all their efforts to save Effie were useless , and slowly her life leached away with her blood , leaving her white and drained on the bed , only the shouts of her now motherless baby breaking the silence of the room . |
3 | Maria went ahead and accepted the post and slowly her husband became more supportive . |
4 | It was only 2s.6d. and rather her sort of thing , I thought . |
5 | Just the touch of his chest pressing hard against her breasts , just the lightest fleeting brush of his thighs against hers , and suddenly her heart was weeping from the wanting of him . |
6 | And suddenly her heart was beating very fast , slamming against her ribcage like a demented hammer . |
7 | She stared through the long net curtains out on to the ‘ tZand , empty now in the thickening twilight , and suddenly her wariness dissolved . |
8 | When Matey had ventured a favourable comment about his midnight drinking having stopped , he had simply said , ‘ You must thank McAllister for that , ’ and so her influence seemed to be a good one . |
9 | She was Altun , and so her hair was red — a colour like a brightly burning fire . |
10 | But he saw her only as part of the furniture , and so her guilt was lessened . |
11 | It seems that she will not be well enough to proceed with the rest of the play , and so her understudy will be taking over the role . |
12 | Her therapist had suggested that she should speak more fully and openly to her husband , but an ancient , instinctive residue of wisdom had told Scarlet that this would be inadvisable : she had not gone through any process of transference , did not therefore regard her therapist as omnipotent , and so her suspicion that she was wasting money on her treatment was not unfounded . |
13 | There was no road at that time , and so her coffin was carried from Santo da Serra over the rough mountain tracks to Boaventura . |
14 | Jay felt like an athlete in training : Lucy 's perfection — and so her need for Jay 's perfection to love her ? — was her racetrack . |
15 | And perhaps her friend was right , Lisa thought to herself now as she sank back in her armchair in front of the gas fire , put her feet up at last and took a mouthful of her cocoa . |
16 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
17 | ‘ She was always very quiet and withdrawn , ’ was all Aunt Lilian would say , when pressed , and perhaps her interest really was in the young man 's academic future , not in her own , or mine , because she continued to coach him by post until two days before my birth . |
18 | His hands moved convulsively up and down her back . |
19 | It was too humiliating … she stared at her reflection , the damp tangle of hair tumbling over her eyes and down her back , the too pale , too thin length of arms and legs , the full thrust of high , ochre-tipped breasts , balanced by the curving jut of her hips … she put her hands to her face , and felt the heat in her cheeks . |
20 | She pulled it more tightly , rubbing her shoulders , allowing one hand to slide across her breasts and down her belly . |
21 | Talking softly the whole time , he slowly ran his hands over her , caressing , gentling and scratching up and down her mane where once her mother would have lovingly nibbled her , then progressing to her back and flanks . |
22 | He worked his dick up and down her slit , rubbing at her pulsating clit a multitude of times before plunging it back into her squelching hole . |
23 | It turned chilly in the afternoon , and a man in a bowler hat came and sat beside her and rubbed the side of his shoe up and down her leg . |
24 | The tears welled up in her eyes and trickled into her ears and down her neck ; she heard her own sobs but made no effort to contain them . |
25 | Jezrael was pacing up and down her room in the emotional protection of her old innersuit . |
26 | Helen now had a curious pricking sensation up and down her spine . |
27 | He held her close , one hand at her waist , the other supporting her back , his fingers stroking at the base of her neck , sending delightful shivers , signals of desire , up and down her spine . |
28 | Old ? ’ he queried helpfully in his soft , rather musical voice that sent funny little shivers up and down her spine . |
29 | One hand moved gently up and down her spine while the other arm continued to hold her closely . |
30 | She was beginning to respond to the tenderness of his fingers playing up and down her spine . |