Example sentences of "her [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Léonie pointed her toe and wrote an imaginary signature in the dust . |
| 2 | Undressed , I lay alongside the one hundred and fifty-sixth of her kind and shuddered as her fingers touched my erect penis . |
| 3 | Cher , 46 , stuck her nose in the air , brushed past her ex-husband and said : |
| 4 | She took the cigarette stub from her holder and replaced it with a fresh one . |
| 5 | The girl started the engine of her Saab and followed the taxi . |
| 6 | An oriental girl dressed as a matador wrenched off her domino and threw herself at me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The inquest heard that Leonie had been seen regularly by her GP and had been referred for psychiatric treatment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She tucked stray wisps of hair back under her kerchief , then picked up her case and walked up the steps on to the porch . |
| 11 | As she picked up her case and walked out of the door , she deliberately did n't look at her husband . |
| 12 | She went and took a grey pleated skirt from her case and zipped herself into it . |
| 13 | She opened her case and unpacked with unnecessary vigour . |
| 14 | With a snort of laughter , she returned to her case and humped it on to the bed . |
| 15 | He sounded so disgusted that she seized her case and bolted through the door he indicated . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Releasing her wrist briefly , he tugged apart the edges of her robe and stared down at her nakedness . |
| 19 | She slipped off her robe and came to him , stepping into the shower beside him , then gave a small shriek . |
| 20 | Resigned to the fact that she was n't going to get back to sleep , she pulled on her robe and went downstairs . |
| 21 | Bleary-eyed , she pulled on her robe and hurried through to the other cabin . |
| 22 | She gripped at her robe and tried to present a fair impression of a relaxed , composed individual . |
| 23 | Deliberately , she pushed her hands into the pockets of her robe and sat back in her chair as he proceeded to serve himself . |
| 24 | She slid out of her bunk , grabbed her robe and stormed through the galley into his cabin . |
| 25 | Hearing his feverish mutter of gratification as his hands parted her robe and found her flesh unconfined beneath it , save for a little pair of loose silky pants , she accepted a power almost equal to his over her . |
| 26 | Ken did , however , help Anita — with the ruby in her navel that kept falling out every time she did her belly dance . |
| 27 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 28 | Then firmed her jaw and imagined the tight lines she was seeding round her mouth . |
| 29 | Changing his mind , and watching in the mirror , he slipped his hands underneath her jaw and pulled her gently up again . |
| 30 | She squared her jaw and nodded . |