Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaves protected her , their broad faces covering her like skin . |
| 2 | Tallis followed glancing back at the huge carvings , their grotesque faces watching her , some compassionately , some with mocking expressions . |
| 3 | She guessed that her weekly visits made her a regular , for the keyboard player nodded at her and the guitarist/vocalist grinned . |
| 4 | When it finished , there was lunch and music : all her favourite foods calling her with their rich odours of spiced meats and pasta . |
| 5 | Her hat was a stained velvet Rembrandt , fruit lurching over one ear , and her dark glasses made her a parody of Bette Davis 's cameo wicked eccentrics . |
| 6 | Furthermore , if one of the females becomes too dominant they can pool their male resources to put her in her place . |
| 7 | To Breeze and Gay she was unfailingly gentle and sweet-tempered ; moreover , she was interested in her work , and her little pupils loved her . |
| 8 | Her skin was a pale olive colour but absolutely clear and her magnificent eyes gave her face all the definition it needed . |
| 9 | Apart from her father and her brother Niall who had come down from the watchtower , she was the tallest person present , and her fine clothes lent her a new self-confidence . |
| 10 | Her republican sympathies brought her into direct conflict with her brother Sir John French , who was viceroy , but they were reconciled before he died in 1925 . |
| 11 | Wendy ran after her child but her spiked heels slowed her , so she gave up and came back home and made herself a cup of coffee and read the stories in the back of her magazine . |
| 12 | Sometimes she feels like an agony aunt as many of her regular customers tell her their troubles . |
| 13 | She 's off , her long legs carrying her down the lane . |
| 14 | With an effort , she made them part , and then her vocal cords let her down by refusing to work . |
| 15 | She 's decided she wants a cat , and goes to enormous lengths to persuade her reluctant parents to buy her one . |
| 16 | She flung herself at friendship and blurted her thoughts and feelings , jokes and secrets till she had no flora in the lining of her inner spaces to help her absorb her experiences slowly , nutritiously . |
| 17 | It was downright sinister and the fact that Glyn had picked up on her uneasy feelings left her more uneasy still . |
| 18 | She 'd had plenty of boyfriends , but none of them serious , and none had made her react in quite such a way , despite their determined attempts to arouse her . |
| 19 | Caroline paced her bedroom , her furious steps taking her from one end of the handsome room to the other . |
| 20 | Once she had been attractive , with a good figure : now she was painfully thin and her sharp features gave her a pinched look . |
| 21 | Enmeshed with her jagged , nervous breathing was his own strong rhythm of peace that climbed inside her autonomic systems to calm her though the pain stayed . |
| 22 | Once , her taut nerves convinced her there were footsteps leaving the typists ' room and she dropped to her knees at the side of the desk where someone glancing in would not see her . |
| 23 | She was of course aware that she came from a Catholic to a barely Protestant country in a state of intense flux and religious upheaval ; her new subjects presented her with a set of pressing confessional and political problems . |
| 24 | Some of her fellow students accused her of selling out to the whites . |
| 25 | The thought of his busy mowing , so useless and so trivial as a defence against the disaster that encircled the house and their silly lives overcame her . |
| 26 | For the length of a heartbeat his tall figure remained stiff and unyielding , and then she heard him swear harshly under his breath , and felt his strong arms enfolding her trembling figure . |
| 27 | His strong arms rocked her , his hands stroked and soothed , till she felt comforted . |
| 28 | That the feel of his strong arms made her feel small and vulnerable ? |
| 29 | Only his strong arms holding her tight against him saved her from falling , her bones turning to liquid within her as his lips nuzzled relentlessly towards her ear . |
| 30 | She did n't hear Travis come over to her , only felt his strong arms raising her up . |