Example sentences of "her [noun] [conj] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clasped her fingers and brought them to his lips . |
| 2 | He caught her fingers and kissed them lightly . |
| 3 | Fluidly , unhurriedly , she disentwined her fingers and curled them instead around her brandy glass . |
| 4 | Dazed , she lifted her fingers and rested them against her lips . |
| 5 | The woman who wept over the feet of Jesus in Luke chapter 7 and then proceeded to wipe his feet with her hair and anoint them with ointment , had her sins forgiven . |
| 6 | She had recently killed some of Buddie 's hens and turkeys by gripping their necks between her teeth and shaking them violently from side to side before throwing them into the air . |
| 7 | Fighting the shadows in the dark air , she bares her teeth and sinks them deep , through hair , through pulsing flesh , to the bone . |
| 8 | Lisa beamed confidently as Vass gathered up her sketches and handed them back to her . |
| 9 | She tied up her sticks and wrapped them in the silk again . |
| 10 | He had dropped his hands down from her shoulders and slipped them into his trouser-pockets . |
| 11 | She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table . |
| 12 | She took three aspirins from her handbag and swallowed them , grimacing , with the last tepid mouthful of tea . |
| 13 | Taking all her words and throwing them back at her in silly high voices . |
| 14 | ‘ A friend who is ill … = ’ Miss Statham took her words and repeated them so that they sounded like a line from a Victorian poem . |
| 15 | She rolled up her pyjamas and stuffed them under her pillow , before quickly pulling the bedclothes to . |
| 16 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 17 | Then his thumb moved to her lips and scored them brutally and then he jerked her away from him . |
| 18 | Helpless in her pinioned position , she opened her mouth to make a cutting retort and met Roman 's questing finger , slowly outlining her mouth , feathering indescribable sensations over the surface of her skin , then sliding between her lips and parting them with such lazy insistence that a shiver of reaction made her tremble all over . |
| 19 | He saw the questions forming on her lips and forestalled them . |
| 20 | She closed her eyes and kept them closed for quite a while , and when she opened them again it seemed as though she had gathered herself together . |
| 21 | When she took off her glasses the sun caught her eyes and made them flash like green torches . |
| 22 | The terrace tiles were already warm under her bare feet ; the sunlight , when she looked towards it , stung her eyes and made them water . |
| 23 | Fenella felt ridiculous tears sting her eyes and brushed them away impatiently because this was no time to be emotional . |
| 24 | She was surprised to feel tears mist her eyes and brushed them quickly away , hoping that he would n't notice . |
| 25 | The Lamia also had a peculiar ability to take out her eyes and hold them in her hand . |
| 26 | She put an arm across her eyes and opened them beneath it , seeing him in such a way that he could never be certain whether she had looked or not , naked and hairy and black as she might have imagined , thick-set and arrogant and very ready — that much at least was certain — to take her without any further preamble . |
| 27 | Claudia woke up slowly , opening her eyes and closing them immediately against the light that poured in through long narrow windows . |
| 28 | The fat woman opened her eyes and closed them again . |
| 29 | A soft warm air pressed on her eyes and closed them . |
| 30 | She closed her eyes and rethought them , blanking their memories and recreating them from the emptiness up . |