Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was I who cared for her murdered child through his last days . ’ |
| 2 | Their only appeal to Clara lay in their austerity , which sometimes reached a point where it bordered on the dangerously extreme ; there was one sad tale , for instance , of a little girl who cared for her cruel stepmother with unfailing devotion , and who died of pneumonia after running out in her nightgown to look for her stepmother 's cat . |
| 3 | A wife 's vivid account of how she cared for her declining husband . |
| 4 | Marjorie ( Joanna Lumley ) , for instance , whom Shirley envied for her academic prospects , ends up with only the freedom of high-class prostitution . |
| 5 | And as she rubbed against him , her skin became more and more slippery , until she squelched as her open crotch ground against his thighs . |
| 6 | She began to feel the urgent rise and fall of his chest against the compact roundness of her young breasts , and knew a tingling awareness in them that threaded through her entire body in a way that was completely new to her and utterly wonderful . |
| 7 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 8 | She did not care because a cold misery was seeping into her bones as surely as the damp seeped through her thin shoes . |
| 9 | Her tranquil life was threatened by the coming of a man whom she regarded as her deadly enemy . |
| 10 | He slipped a noncommittal hand round her waist , so that the smoke from his cigarette rose past her left ear . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , no ! ’ she drawled , determined not to be outdone , as she moved towards her front door . |
| 12 | Then , after studying the place for a week , she moved into her present workplace , next to a busy parking lot . |
| 13 | Julie Mills moved into her Edwardian town house in London expecting to just give it a lick of paint . |
| 14 | When Julie Mills moved into her new home she thought all she 'd need to do to the kitchen was give it a lick of paint . |
| 15 | It was lightened by the presence of Rose Taillé in the house , Rose with her deep voice and her olive skin and her green glass eye . |
| 16 | Mrs Olwyn Jones , 61 , was on her way to visit her daughter in Walsall , West Midlands , when the stolen Austin Maestro crashed into her three-wheel carriage . |
| 17 | Leith rose above her inner turmoil to smile her thanks , but was immediately a mass of inner agitation again once Wendy had gone . |
| 18 | Moving slowly as though she could put off the dreaded moment forever , she changed into her favourite show costume — a long glittery number in gold . |
| 19 | Her teeth sank into her bottom lip , biting back a cry , and she winced . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've done my homework , ’ he remarked , and her heart sank into her smart sandals as she realised that he was aware her neighbours were away . |
| 21 | The night before my friend 's birthday , she bumped into her four-year-old son as she was going upstairs . |
| 22 | They ground into her soft lips brutally , his hands , his body as hard as iron and totally merciless . |
| 23 | The oil mixed with the glutinous juices which oozed from her agitated vagina to create a mess such as she 'd never known between her legs . |
| 24 | A flood of milk seeped from her open twat , and the audience chuckled at her predicament . |
| 25 | Beth rose from her front row seat , turned , and allowed the audience to get a good look at her before making her way out . |
| 26 | Finding herself jobless and with little to do , she drew upon her past experience of life in the Mediterranean and began compiling recipes ‘ less with any thought of future publication than as a personal antidote to the bleak conditions and acute food shortages of immediate post-war England ’ . |
| 27 | Her small white teeth drew in her upper lip as his hand stroked so erotically , his thumb tracing circles of white heat . |
| 28 | The floor was crowded with cardboard boxes that were filled with leaflets for the Literacy Project that Ellen helped in her spare time . |
| 29 | He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire . |
| 30 | She was taking a risk , for Constance sometimes rejoiced in her gipsy blood and sometimes deplored it . |