Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
| 2 | Your mam 's so good with them — she 'll make sure Danny does n't get into mischief and see that Lilian has her bottle at the right time . ’ |
| 3 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 4 | Maggie was stabbing her finger at the different plates on the table , and her aunt wagged her head and pursed her lips before she said , flatly , ‘ I 'm courting one of the airmen ; he comes to Donald 's farm . ’ |
| 5 | Of course she sold her house at the wrong time . |
| 6 | Lips compressed into a thin line of tension , she strode along the corridor and into her office , wrinkling her nose at the musty smell of stale air . |
| 7 | Perhaps the old gods had been listening , when she 'd made her wish at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 8 | She should be able to move in by the end of next week , and I 'll never be so happy as when I wave her goodbye at the front door . |
| 9 | She paid her account at the Imperial Hotel , and with her maid staggering under six hatboxes followed by a small procession of luggage borne by sturdy footmen , she climbed into a victoria to depart for the railway station . |
| 10 | She nodded her head at the cardiac monitor screen over against the far wall . |
| 11 | Famous writer and critic Marghanita Laski expressed her amazement at the strange treatment given to ‘ such words as those till recently written as f-dash and c-dash ’ . |
| 12 | Nancy Nevinson began her career at the Old Vic in the 1940's , working with Laurence Olivier , Ralph Richardson and Sybil Thorndike , in plays that included Richard III and Peer Gynt . |
| 13 | Pointing her finger at the misplaced moral fervour of the WSPU and the LNA , she claimed that these ‘ dabblers in debauchery ’ had set middle-class women on the rampage against an evil they knew nothing about . |
| 14 | Mrs Chalker , who lost her seat at the general election , faced giving up her job as Minister of the Overseas Development Administration and Britain 's leading representative at the European Bank , leaving a gap in the British team but will continue in her post from the House of Lords . |
| 15 | The woman whose title had baffled Eileen waved her hand at the other girl dismissively . |
| 16 | Clarissa clicked her tongue at the other end of the line . |
| 17 | The skirt did not reach her calves at the ideal point for flattery . |
| 18 | ‘ She took her insulin at the right time , and ate properly ? ’ |
| 19 | Making her debut at the Royal National Theatre in February , Frances Barber stars as a hotel manageress in Richard Eyre 's revival of the Tennessee Williams classic , The Night Of The Iguana . |
| 20 | It made him laugh to see her standing there , shaking her fist at the departing van . |
| 21 | The elegant one turned the neatly-coiffed head on her long neck and looked apprehensively around the room , careful to suppress her alarm at the primitive scene into which she had intruded . |
| 22 | ‘ It having been stated to Samuel Whitbread Esq. , and to me … that Mary Flint , now in the Bedford Infirmary , is in danger of death in consequence of the wounds and injuries which she received from you , we intend to take her examination at the said Infirmary on Tuesday 8th October inst. at 1 o'clock of the afternoon of which I give you this notice that you may if you think proper be present . ’ |
| 23 | He deposited her case at the front door then strode back to his car , and she watched him go with hatred , her eyes moving over his powerful body , so lean , so tall , so impeccably dressed . |
| 24 | Without her even being aware of it he had somehow moved into the cabin , leaving her standing at the open door . |
| 25 | UBI A girl who lifts her skirts at the very moment you wish she would |
| 26 | The vision of Mrs Thatcher raising her arms at the Tory Party Conference and saying she is ‘ proud to be old ’ is so unlikely that it makes us smile . |
| 27 | ‘ Gee up now , ’ she cried , clicking her tongue at the old mare . |
| 28 | DEBORAH Warner , who stunned us with her Titus Andronicus and Electra , makes her debut at the National directing Brecht 's The Good Person of Sichuan in the Olivier . |
| 29 | ‘ Th'heard what she said — they 've finished with us , ’ jerking her thumb at the closed door . |