Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Her step-granddaughter recalled her ceaseless industry as an artist , as well as her ‘ Greek rages ’ and her enduring appeal to men . |
| 2 | And her values set my teeth on edge — she does n't care about anything . ’ |
| 3 | During the weekend of the Windsor fire , she and her sons spent their last weekend there together — so Diana could pack up her belongings and move them all back to London . |
| 4 | Sarah stood dignified and erect as her sons buried their brother . |
| 5 | ‘ And unless you 're one of Charity LeVille 's nubile masseuses over from Gros Islet … ’ he 'd reached the bed , and to her horror slung his jacket over a nearby chair and sat down on the edge of the bed , far too close for comfort , continuing in the same bland tone , ‘ … which from the pious clutching of bedclothes I somehow doubt , maybe you 'd like to explain exactly who you are ? ’ |
| 6 | Happy , smiling , confident , she had cheerfully tucked a stray strand of her long pale gold hair behind her ear as she waited for her sister to answer her ring at her doorbell . |
| 7 | all her sister 's energy and thinking her sister should , I mean she had a sister living with her and her sister had her own family with her , er a Mongol son , well I 'm afraid Margaret should n't of taken that attitude because she said ooh everywhere I go now there 's only me , now that 's being selfish , because she had three children and she should n't really of expected all her sisters to keep coming , they were living with her , you know |
| 8 | Thinking of her sister made her impatient . |
| 9 | Are n't you going to have one ? ’ she asked , but her sister shook her head . |
| 10 | Tears stung her eyes a moment at the thought of her sister losing her identity ; Jezrael asked herself if the grief was for Ches or selfishly for her own loss . |
| 11 | But she certainly noticed him ; she also saw her sister blot her copybook , no doubt unintentionally , by being quoted — or misquoted — in the press . |
| 12 | " He flies to the aspirin bottle for everything , but I 'm afraid aspirins wo n't cure what I 've got , which is a great indigestible lump just She banged her chest to illustrate her words . |
| 13 | Holding her arms modestly across her chest to cover her nakedness , she hurried obediently from the room . |
| 14 | Now , her firm , neatly-rounded breasts tingled with awareness and she wanted to fold her arms across her chest to hide their swelling shape . |
| 15 | The physiotherapist , without shoes , places her feet over the patient 's ankles to stabilize his feet , while her knees hold the outer sides of his lower legs , and her chest supports his seat . |
| 16 | She was puzzled by her inability to repeat its results and even more puzzled by the data that purported to support them . |
| 17 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 18 | Her faith dominated my childhood . |
| 19 | As one further measure of the rapport that was established , most respondents eventually became assured enough in her presence to express their feelings about being the subject of research . |
| 20 | She would n't stop at his side any more to watch him play , though he liked her to , for she was his lucky charm , and her presence concentrated his mind wonderfully . |
| 21 | One of these spirits was St. Catherine of Genoa and her eulogy emphasises her tendency . |
| 22 | But she never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions , always asking , ‘ What do you feel about X , Y , or Z ? ’ , never ‘ What do you think ? ’ |
| 23 | He stroked the side of her face with it , amused by her attempts to catch his fingers in her teeth , teasing her with it , darting little touches here and there on her lips . |
| 24 | It was n't often that men shrugged off her attempts to pay her way . |
| 25 | It 's fun to see the no-nonsense , motor-bike-riding heroine beating up on the men in true fantasy-heroic style , but her attempts to encourage her young protege in self-defence end in disaster , making the messages it gives out totally confused and its solutions seeming no more realistic than Ms 45 storing her rapist in the fridge and blowing male scum off the street . |
| 26 | Israel 's history must be read as the long story of her attempts to fulfil her responsibilities — with some successes , but with many conspicuous failures . |
| 27 | She brought up the hem of her cloak to cover her nose . |
| 28 | She says she gets bad asthma and ca n't swallow very easily , which means it takes her ages to eat her meals . |
| 29 | Her proposals confirmed her separation from all sections of British politics . |
| 30 | A task she had to perform , a necessity ; an observer could have thought she had been ordered to do this , to sit on that step with her fingers pushing her flesh about over her face . |