Example sentences of "her [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barefoot and in a panic , she missed the bottom step of the wrought-iron spiral staircase , stubbing her toe and grazing her right shin . |
| 2 | Léonie pointed her toe and wrote an imaginary signature in the dust . |
| 3 | Undressed , I lay alongside the one hundred and fifty-sixth of her kind and shuddered as her fingers touched my erect penis . |
| 4 | Cher , 46 , stuck her nose in the air , brushed past her ex-husband and said : |
| 5 | Mary telephoned the therapist 2 months later because she felt unable to decide whether to return to her ex-husband or to stay with her boyfriend . |
| 6 | Perhaps her very strengths , her enthusiasm and drive for so many causes , led to inadequate public recognition of her work . |
| 7 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 8 | She took the cigarette stub from her holder and replaced it with a fresh one . |
| 9 | The girl started the engine of her Saab and followed the taxi . |
| 10 | An oriental girl dressed as a matador wrenched off her domino and threw herself at me . |
| 11 | Ellen was polishing the furniture with beeswax , but collected her cloths and went out of the room wordlessly when Paul entered , shutting the door after her . |
| 12 | The inquest heard that Leonie had been seen regularly by her GP and had been referred for psychiatric treatment . |
| 13 | The doorbell rang a few minutes after she had opened the lid of her case and returned downstairs to make herself a cup of tea . |
| 14 | She tucked stray wisps of hair back under her kerchief , then picked up her case and walked up the steps on to the porch . |
| 15 | As she picked up her case and walked out of the door , she deliberately did n't look at her husband . |
| 16 | She went and took a grey pleated skirt from her case and zipped herself into it . |
| 17 | Paige snapped the locks on her case and put the remainder of her possessions into her shoulder-bag . |
| 18 | She opened her case and unpacked with unnecessary vigour . |
| 19 | With a snort of laughter , she returned to her case and humped it on to the bed . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're in here , ’ Ven remarked , taking up her case and heading for the door on the left of the French windows — and as she followed him into a pleasant bedroom , ‘ With luck , by the time you 've unpacked , the waiter will be here with some tea . ’ |
| 21 | She had a burning desire to pack her case and leave on the first mode of transport she could find — she would even settle for a donkey if there was one . |
| 22 | During the three days when Cresson was ricocheting between Matignon and the Elysee , arguing her case and fighting to stay in office , she maintained her usual impeccable Parisian tenue de ville , hair and make-up perfectly in order at all times . |
| 23 | He sounded so disgusted that she seized her case and bolted through the door he indicated . |
| 24 | The writer , who was troubled that the Lake District was losing its local population , put her case as follows : |
| 25 | ‘ Punishment enough , I think , ’ he said softly , as his hands traced a deliberately sensuous path over the clinging wetness of her shirt and came to rest for the briefest of moments on the raised outline of her breasts . |
| 26 | Barbara takes off her shirt and wraps a blue chiffon nightie around her waist ; while Elena is in the loo , she opens her purse and shows me a picture of her six-year-old daughter . |
| 27 | She countered by deliberately breaking the rules , exhausting her opponents and winning by default . |
| 28 | He had left her mid-kiss and come home . |
| 29 | So , like Prince Charles and thousands of less well known amateur artists , Kylie now sits at her easel and loses herself in another world . |
| 30 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |