Example sentences of "[prep] her [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both her mortality and her immortality scared them until they kept their distance , and invented stories about her powers that made them shiver in their bones . |
| 2 | Jones was modest about her poetry and concealed it from her friends in Oxford . |
| 3 | She had been thinking about her future and discussing it with her parents , and all of them had decided to sell the shop . |
| 4 | She would fasten the ring about her neck and wear it for Johnny , as he had asked her to do . |
| 5 | And I understood from the hospital where Mrs Ross has been a patient that before she was admitted enquiries were made and you wrote back — supposedly in your wife 's absence — saying you had no idea where your wife was and you did not want to hear about her mother or to see her . ’ |
| 6 | They moved quite quickly and by the time Mum had paid for her shopping and packed it in bags , they had almost reached t ] he last checkout . |
| 7 | A senior detective at Marbella said last night : ‘ This lady told our detectives that she had no idea there was that much concern in London for her daughter and assured them that she would now return home as soon as possible . ’ |
| 8 | Hofmeyr was certain that the mother had returned to look for her calf and associated him with its disappearance . |
| 9 | I thanked her for her consideration and said I would . |
| 10 | She reached for her pen and dipped it into the well so fiercely that when she lifted it a blot fell across the page . |
| 11 | Ruth turned away and groped for her sunglasses and clamped them over her face so he would n't see the hurt in her eyes . |
| 12 | In both novels the heroine undertakes a search for her identity that requires her to navigate between the attractions of two men who represent two different attitudes to life . |
| 13 | He reached for her hand and kissed it with a flourish . |
| 14 | He reached for her hand and brought it to his lips . |
| 15 | He felt for her hand and held it tight . |
| 16 | ‘ Sit down again , pray , ’ pleaded her hostess , reaching for her hand and pulling her back to the sofa . |
| 17 | Lissa smiled wanly , and allowed Adam to reach for her hand and lead her out of the room . |
| 18 | Maureen had borrowed a wheelchair for her mother and wheeled her close to the altar to see Anne and John married , then drove her home until the Nuptial Mass was over . |
| 19 | Ideally , she knew , Brian should have been the recipient of all this intellectual and spiritual outpouring , but he was not interested , and her therapist , who should have been the other option , merely picked all the meat off her perceptions and left her with a meaningless pile of bones . |
| 20 | To fall down on the sofa and tear off her clothes and beg him to make wild , abandoned love to her . |
| 21 | He had wrapped her in a blanket off her bed and made her more coffee . |
| 22 | He had expected to sweep Rachel off her feet and carry her off to New Zealand with him on the next sailing , but he had reckoned without her Jewish father and mother , the new Zionism and Rachel herself . |
| 23 | Susan swept the sou'wester off her head and threw it away . |
| 24 | She whisked Nicandra 's large linen napkin off her knees and tied it round her waist , then joined her own to it and knotted it securely to the back of Nicandra 's chair . |
| 25 | She came to the last button and , plucking up all her courage , slipped the dress off her shoulders and let it drop to the floor . |
| 26 | Surely she was still as determined as ever not to allow anyone to creep through her defences and make her care ? |
| 27 | She waited for morning , the words playing through her mind and keeping her from sleep . |
| 28 | Stanley sees through her facade and sees her as a threat to his marriage , and his affection for Stella . |
| 29 | Then she was aware of my gaze , glanced away , blew a puff of air upwards at her face , pinched the T-shirt between her fingers and flapped it for draught . |
| 30 | With a lunge , he grabbed the bag from between her fingers and flung it across the parquet , where it landed with a thump before skidding to rest beneath a radiator , then before she could react to such a flare of violence he was reaching out for her , dragging her into his embrace , his lips ravening hungrily over her own with a fever of desire that sent shock waves of fear and desire quivering through her . |