Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] she [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , as his hands closed over her breasts , she realised that the black lace jacket of her suit was somehow unbuttoned and he was tugging down the lacy bra cups , whispering hotly against her naked throat , and as his head moved lower and his mouth closed hotly over her erect nipples she twisted beneath him , moaning , clutching his dark head as she felt his teeth graze her with agonising pleasure . |
| 2 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 3 | The hooded eyes surveyed her with frank appreciation mingled with amusement . |
| 4 | The next step , which only the most well-off men such as restaurant owners can afford , is keeping this wife in semi-purdah — in other words sentencing her to solitary confinement . |
| 5 | ‘ The king my father learned of my regard for yourself from Sir Thomas Vaughan who saw it as his duty to inform him , ’ Edward told her with notable reluctance . |
| 6 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
| 7 | Woolley placed her under close arrest for mutiny . |
| 8 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 9 | His gaze pierced her like cold steel . |
| 10 | Jake regarded her with superior amusement . |
| 11 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 12 | But the last unspoken question consumed her with fresh guilt . |
| 13 | A medallion in Hughes Hall portrays her with short hair , an aquiline nose , and a determined chin . |
| 14 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 15 | This perfidious inner reaction drove her into ferocious silence as they headed back down the coast again , berating her stupidity as she watched the lush green hills glide by . |
| 16 | For example when Pip meets Miss Haversham for the 1st time , Dickens describes her in immense detail . |
| 17 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
| 18 | The fear that it might show on her face caused her to turn away from him and hasten towards the food hampers , and as she did so a shock revelation hit her with full force . |
| 19 | First , she contended that her husband put her under undue pressure to sign and that she finally succumbed to the pressure . |
| 20 | At last she reached Broom House and rushed into the surgery , where Helen greeted her with evident relief . |
| 21 | Her family and friends made many attempts to draw her into public life , including offering the sub-editorship of a literary magazine , but these were all rejected . |
| 22 | It would be a chance to see her on neutral ground , maybe even a chance to explain that it was n't his bloody fault that Laura had shown up at the door only seconds before she herself had . |
| 23 | Damian studied her with loving amusement and murmured , ‘ You do n't really believe I would have knelt to you ? |
| 24 | Her resistance to Generalissimo Franco 's Nationalists endowed her with legendary status . |
| 25 | The yellow glow from his little oil lamp showed her in unusual array , her black hair braided in a red ribbon , with curls artfully breaking free around her temples , her gown deepest and brightest blue like her eyes , and a girdle of gold braid round her hips . |
| 26 | Her republican sympathies brought her into direct conflict with her brother Sir John French , who was viceroy , but they were reconciled before he died in 1925 . |
| 27 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 28 | The local authority provided her with temporary accommodation . |
| 29 | Anger emanated from fitzAlan in waves , the force of it completely overwhelming her , even as the physical impact of that ruthless kiss stunned her into frozen immobility . |
| 30 | ‘ Then he carried the little girl to the nearest building and rushed inside a flat to shower her with cold water . |