Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn heard his footsteps crossing the hall and she wiped furiously at her damp face with the sleeve of his gown , rushing to the door , pressing her body firmly against it . |
| 2 | Not having the culinary skills to extract nourishment from this household item she passed on to her second request ; could she have money to buy uniforms for her kids to go to their new school ? |
| 3 | Next door , an old woman in her seventies read aloud to her ninety-two-year-old mother , as she had read aloud of an evening for decades ; their house had not been renovated , it belonged to another age . |
| 4 | When he lifted his head , gazed down at her stunned face , her bruised and swollen mouth , his measured gaze was brilliant with banked-down emotion . |
| 5 | He gazed down at her troubled face . |
| 6 | He gazed down into her emerald eyes . |
| 7 | Her voice held the anguish of years , and his eyes darkened as he gazed down into her tortured face . |
| 8 | She judged the garden to be about two acres in extent , and rejoiced anew at her amazing luck . |
| 9 | Bewildered by her own inner conflict , she could only stand there feeling totally vulnerable , her limbs barely supporting her as he peered down into her troubled face . |
| 10 | She shook her head fiercely , then concentrated entirely on her present work . |
| 11 | His rampant pole moved all over her greasy belly and thighs , and when she spread her legs to capture the greasy thing inside her , it slid about like a duck on ice . |
| 12 | The parrot crawled , more an animal than a bird , out of her cage and , helped along by her powerful beak , climbed the various terraces of Aunt Tossie 's bed until she reached her pillow where she crept along by shoulder to neck . |
| 13 | Kit Hegarty moved swiftly around her large house in a quiet road that led down to the sea . |
| 14 | The youngster , from Ilford , east London , moved in with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family in Guildford , Surrey in the summer . |
| 15 | Diana drew deeply on her inner resolve and managed to keep going . |
| 16 | She was absolutely convinced that what she liked other people wanted too ; a canny instinct which she used always as her guiding principle and from which no one could shake her . |
| 17 | She only purchased unpackaged products , which she bore home in her ancient shopping bag . |
| 18 | She peered furtively over her left shoulder , but no-one else was in the small seminar room . |
| 19 | And she moved off to her own prayers . |
| 20 | Then they gave her a battery of psych-tests that plugged straight into her nervous system ; though she fought against it , they strapped her down and there was nothing she could hide , no way to stop the relentless tide of data and attitudes they programmed into her , or the probing of her mental set . |
| 21 | Even in softly flowing ballets such as Monotone II where no impetus should be seen as deliberate , it must nevertheless be there and firmly controlled lf , for example , the two boys are to turn the girl sur pointe with her working leg stretched upwards and her head and body bent downwards over her supporting leg . |
| 22 | The role of the lonely outsider with an aching heart but crusty exterior is this time taken by Irish actress Brenda Fricker , grimed up to her red eyeballs as a bag lady with a pigeon fetish . |
| 23 | .. Then there swam pleasantly into her muddled mind the recollection that Jerome would never have anything to say about anything again , never drive at eighty-five or pick on Nora or do those other terrible and humiliating things . |
| 24 | She changed out of her glad rags , tugged on old jeans and a sweatshirt and drove out to his house . |
| 25 | At the time of the trial she fled back to her wealthy family in Malaysia . |
| 26 | Farika wandered around with her unused plastic for four days , expectation the watchword on her lips , while Sara found herself in a much better position to comment . |
| 27 | Dane 's mocking eyes flickered lazily over her dishevelled clothing . |
| 28 | She flung herself to the floor and rolled to safety behind the half-opened door , the Beretta clenched tightly in her gloved hand . |
| 29 | Jo pulled nervously at the top of her dress ; it was also of satin , a pink so pale that it appeared white at first glance , swathed tightly around her long-waisted body and embroidered all over with pearls , brilliants and crumbs of coral . |
| 30 | When it dawned on her that she would have to earn her own living , she made up her mind to work for a diploma and then teach , and do some book-illustrating while she cast about for her real métier . |