Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She enjoys what she has ; she may be less inhibited about experimenting with the outward image ; on the other hand she is less of a slave to fashion , more ready to accept her individuality and express it openly . |
| 2 | A priest , Father Seraphim , managed to retrieve her body and brought it to Jerusalem via Peking , Shanghai , Hong Kong , Colombo , Bombay and Port Said . |
| 3 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 4 | Luke smiled again , reaching across the few inches of space Fran had managed to leave between them to catch her hand and raise it to his lips as he pressed a lovingly tender kiss to her fingertips . |
| 5 | The author is a past mistress of gushing praise to lull the reader into tabloid deification , then the quiet slipping in of neat doses of vitriol to tarnish her subject and titillate us . |
| 6 | She slipped into a nerve-racking routine with Damian Flint , and every day she went to see her father and found him getting better and better . |
| 7 | She dearly wanted to see her family and persuade them to forget the ill-feeling that had split the Corosini apart . |
| 8 | His last words came in a soft murmur as he stepped across the path to clasp her arm and swing her round to face him . |
| 9 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 10 | A deep sleep to refresh her mind and to enable her to think more clearly — especially about her own emotions . |
| 11 | His firm prick forced her to open her lips and take him into her mouth . |
| 12 | As she smiled back at him , shaking her head in agreement , he let his fingers trail softly through her silken hair , then slide round to cup her chin and tilt it gently . |
| 13 | Pinned as she was beneath his weight she had n't even the leverage to free her arms or buck him off — though she tried desperately . |
| 14 | I spiked her guns by the simple expedient of ringing Nigel right away , told him the truth , and instructed him to fetch her home and keep her there . |
| 15 | She kept talking over me so I told her to shut her face and cut her off . |
| 16 | She might even be weaving a spell to tangle her feet or make her lose her way in the wood ! |
| 17 | ‘ Confound you , ca n't you even face me now ? ’ he growled , and , walking up to her , he bent to seize her arms and drag her to her feet . |
| 18 | She would have to phone her grandfather and tell him , she said , and she had to get into the van for her purse . |
| 19 | But it was too slow , or too stupid : I just had time to grab her angles and pull her away . |
| 20 | So Ruth wrote at once , asking Maria to postpone her visit and bidding her take care of herself . |
| 21 | Picking up the child , who was breathing in gulps like an oarsman at the end of a race , Thomas bent down to save her sculptures and carried her through to her mother . |
| 22 | Like now , wanting to hold her breast and guide it to the baby 's mouth , but they would n't let her . |
| 23 | She longed to turn her cheek and press it against his palm . |
| 24 | She felt an overwhelming urge to lick her lips and fought it for a while till her treacherous tongue simply shot out — only to be retracted slowly , under Lucenzo 's predatory eyes . |
| 25 | He was intrigued to analyse her dreams and encouraged her to write them down before he discussed the hidden messages they may have contained . |
| 26 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 27 | Maria laughed , a lovely liquid sound , but it required an effort of will to lift her hand and place it in his outstretched one , and resentment surged as his fingers closed round it briefly and were removed . |
| 28 | To her astonishment he stopped abruptly in his tracks , his hand snaking out to grasp her wrist and whirl her back to face him . |
| 29 | She was already asleep , and even the manoeuvring he had to do to remove her pack and settle her in his arms failed to rouse her . |
| 30 | I asked the police to ring her father and ask him to come and collect her from school . |