Example sentences of "her [noun] [that] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In desperation he lifted her bodily off the ground so that she was helplessly pinned against his solid frame , and she discovered to her horror that hating him did n't in any way negate the way he could make her feel . |
| 2 | Shiona watched it , reflecting that the reason for her sensitivity was that her private life was the only area of her existence that gave her absolutely no satisfaction at all . |
| 3 | In January 1977 , amid rumours of a personality clash with Crawford , Frances Cuka left the production , exercising a clause in her contract that allowed her to go after four months . |
| 4 | I think it was her smell that got me started … like the braided loaves fresh from the baker 's oven . |
| 5 | She came to St Bartholomew 's Hospital to be operated on , but it 's her mind that interests me . |
| 6 | At first I did n't believe her but there was something in her eyes that told me it was true . |
| 7 | But it was her eyes that startled me . |
| 8 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
| 9 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 10 | There was a silence , which told him he 'd scored a bull's-eye , and then an over-bright tone in her reply that confirmed it . |
| 11 | There was a wild quality in her innocence that startled him ; it was as if he had violated and deflowered her quite by mistake . |
| 12 | On the death of her father in 1866 she suffered physical and mental breakdown , confiding in a letter that it was her religion that held her up . |
| 13 | ‘ Well … it was her feet that gave her away . ’ |
| 14 | It was often said that her new-found reputation was a bubble that would burst once people realized it was just the raunchiness of her work that got her a wide readership . |
| 15 | There were movements in her body that frightened her . |
| 16 | For a moment he thought she was going to hit him , and then her face turned crimson , her mouth started to bang to and fro like a door in a gale force wind and a sound came down her nose that suggested she had just swallowed a quart of White ’ s Cream Soda . |
| 17 | It was no longer her orgasms that excited her , but mine . |
| 18 | Both her mortality and her immortality scared them until they kept their distance , and invented stories about her powers that made them shiver in their bones . |
| 19 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 20 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 21 | Inspection of Enid 's diary , however , showed that there was very little in her week that gave her a sense of achievement or pleasure . |
| 22 | What if it was her feebleness that made him impatient ? |
| 23 | Attending aquafit sessions at Waterworld gave her motivation that enabled her to stick to a diet , lose weight and get her walking again … a great achievement . |
| 24 | Her cheek pressed flat between his shoulders , Mariana clung to Trent as if it was only her strength that saved them from disintegration . |
| 25 | She had n't been looking forward to this session ; yet , deep down , there was a contrary twinge niggling at her sexuality that insisted she might enjoy it . |
| 26 | It was Ace 's hand on her arm that swung her round to meet him , her face full of frightened guilt . |
| 27 | In both novels the heroine undertakes a search for her identity that requires her to navigate between the attractions of two men who represent two different attitudes to life . |
| 28 | Eva claims it was her uniform that got her noticed . |
| 29 | And it was surely only her memory of her mother that made it repulsive . |
| 30 | It was her face that did it . |