Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six-day separation from William and Harry over the traditional family holiday was the first time Diana had not seen her sons wake up to the excitement of Christmas Day . |
| 2 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
| 3 | Her sister jumped back from the letter-cage . |
| 4 | But when she was over here , she sold up and her sister sold up at the same time . |
| 5 | With a low gasp she let her fingers slide up over the daunting hardness of his shoulders , touch the short , thick hair at his nape … he moved his hands down to her hips , in a quick convulsive movement , crushing her against him . |
| 6 | The passion of his kisses on her throat were leaving her weak and she had to will her fingers to hold on to the bodice . |
| 7 | He stood looking down at her as she lay with her hair spread out on the pillow , her eyes still half shut by the heaviness of sleep and her lips smiling . |
| 8 | Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child . |
| 9 | Louisa received it so , and her heart went out to the suffering woman . |
| 10 | ‘ How do I look — ’ She stopped dead , her heart flipping over under the sweater as Penry Vaughan leapt to his feet at the sight of her , the height and breadth of him overpowering the entire room . |
| 11 | Charity felt her heart go out to the other woman . |
| 12 | ‘ When her heart goes out of the game that 's it . |
| 13 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 14 | Frowning , she let her mind drift back to the events of two years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 16 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 17 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 18 | She sipped her ale , then frowned as her mind skittered back over the conversation . |
| 19 | Her mind skimmed back to the dinner on Friday night . |
| 20 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 21 | As she sucked thoughtfully on the cigarette her mind wandered back to the contents of the dossier they had prepared on Benin . |
| 22 | Her mind flew back to the moment last evening when Benedict had come at her out of the shadows of the hall as she had come downstairs with Lady Merchiston 's empty supper tray . |
| 23 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 24 | This mother has forced her tot to face up to the ordeal of withdrawal symptoms because she could n't control her own habit . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh look how your dumplings are wobbling , ’ he called to her and her tray shook along with the dumplings . |
| 26 | Her glance moved over to the phone — should she ring Ven about her car ? |
| 27 | Tampopo might have sold a few more bowls of noodles and Babette 's Feast caused little hiccups of interest in historic cooking , but The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover plays around with the relationship between food , sex and death in a way that is bound to cause offence . |
| 28 | Lisa took a deep breath , crossing her fingers — perhaps it had sounded worse than it was ! — and forced her eyes to slide round towards the Bentley . |
| 29 | Her eyes clouded over with the pain of the memories being allowed to surface after so many years of being ruthlessly suppressed . |
| 30 | Slorne became still and took stance on the branch quite near to Creggan , her head tilting to one site , ant her eyes staring out at the sunset sky that rose massively now over the Cages . |