Example sentences of "her [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repetition is likewise the musician practising her scales until she can be consistent every time , so that while she performs she can think about the music itself rather than the individual notes . |
| 2 | However , she is prepared to relax her views as she is currently looking for an accountant who is willing to do her books in return for , er , payment in kind . |
| 3 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 4 | Anna only went to her meetings if she was accompanied , and never after dark because she trusted no-one else to guard the children . |
| 5 | She approached her employers because she had decided she would like to set up her own business . |
| 6 | Now he pretended to be waving his cape at the bull and executed a neat veronica , then she kicked her leg up backwards and touched her heel with her fingers while he looked scornfully on with one hand behind his back palm facing outwards . |
| 7 | This generous man with guinea-gold hair had come into her life so unexpectedly , but she just knew that like a guinea he would slip through her fingers before she had a chance to know him better . |
| 8 | ’ He reached out to touch her fingers where they rested on the table . |
| 9 | His mouth smothered hers again and she was aware of his taut , hard body lying across her own pliant form , aware of the roughness of his chest , the sculptured contours of muscle that rippled through her fingers as they clutched and stroked at his skin . |
| 10 | Crouched in the shadows , Scathach watched , but his eyes were on Tallis , not on her fingers as they moved swiftly over the charm . |
| 11 | She watched him through her fingers as he went down the garden and bent over the hole . |
| 12 | ‘ I know where every bone in a chicken is , ’ she once told me , licking her fingers as she removed the umpteenth . |
| 13 | Philippa had taken her black kerchief off and twisted it around her fingers as she sat at Lee 's feet . |
| 14 | Julie could see the tears in her eyes as she re-read the sheet of paper , touching her dead husband 's name with her fingers as she read . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , thanks , ’ Polly said over her shoulder , mentally crossing her fingers as she headed in the opposite direction towards her own cabin in the bow . |
| 16 | In the kitchen , as she heard the sound of the car driving away , she slumped on to a stool , her long hair spilling over her fingers as she dropped her head into her hands with a heavy groan . |
| 17 | The Fish patiently granted her requests until she greedily asked to be created as God . |
| 18 | She had drawn her lips back over her teeth while she cried , rocking herself backwards and forwards in the seat . |
| 19 | Ellen Jebeau brought her lips tightly together and drew them inwards between her teeth before she said , with deep bitterness , ‘ I do n't know about it being a time for plain speaking , I can only say that time has shown your ingratitude for what I 've done for you over the years . ’ |
| 20 | She almost crunches through her teeth when she says that . |
| 21 | She clung to the front of her costume , gritting her teeth as he widened the circle of massage , smoothing the cream over her shoulders and down towards the small of her back . |
| 22 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 23 | Only the unfeeling Moor was left to succour her and she gritted her teeth as she began to climb a rocky incline , refusing to think about the future . |
| 24 | She gritted her teeth as she watched him swing the flexible whip between her legs . |
| 25 | Hunting through her case for some lightweight shoes , and wondering if she could get away without having to wear any stockings , she gritted her teeth as she heard her name being called from the other room . |
| 26 | If the truth were known , he had only acceded to her wishes because it took him away from her , allowing him access to libraries , bookshops and students of all races and creeds — many of them Irish . |
| 27 | not taking her tablets when you 're feeling better we 'll come up and pick you up and take you out . |
| 28 | Her husband took her back to Lynne where , unaccountably to the reader , since she had paid all her debts before she left for Jerusalem , she found herself heavily in debt . |
| 29 | But , despite this assumption , they sat at the desk so closely that their bodies were almost touching , and there were times when his arm encircled her shoulders while he leaned forward to check additions on the electronic calculator . |
| 30 | He helped her into her coat ; again , his arm lay on her shoulders after he had done so . |