Example sentences of "[prep] her [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | As she gave a helpless moan his kiss grew gentler , and he placed his arm once more about her soft body to hold her cradled against him . |
2 | It will be good for her psychological health to see him . ’ |
3 | Comfort 's anguished determination to make up for her earlier coldness made her far more interfering than Annunziata , whose calm gentleness provided the only moments of real respite for Julia . |
4 | If she had told Richard about Harry , and about Maurice 's dubious cargo , he would n't have had to lie in a pool of blood waiting for her own daughter to rescue him . |
5 | The blurb for her latest book describes her as ‘ one of Britain 's best-loved art critics ’ , but — sadly and symptomatically — she gives the impression that the Sacred grows on trees . |
6 | He pulled her down hard on top of him , clamping her against his relaxed body , pinioning her in place with the formidable strength of his golden-skinned legs , winding one hand through her dishevelled hair to control her even further . |
7 | In an agony of choice between human and ideal love Kallikrates tries to kill himself : he refuses to enter the fire in which Ayesha has already achieved immortality and the force of her spiritual power kills him . |
8 | Yet that brief reminder of her murdered husband saddened her . |
9 | Fen , still wanting to be rid of her , had taken advantage of her utter exhaustion to abandon her here . |
10 | Her first impression of her new school filled her with trepidation . |
11 | Her reticence about certain areas of her private life irked him , and he occasionally found an excuse to ring early in the hope of catching her unawares . |
12 | Perhaps the presence of her young mistress made her desist from talk ; Emily would address her in high tones as a servant , no more , although the woman was her only companion . |
13 | The strings decorated the white flesh of her young bottom to leave it covered with little pink squares . |
14 | It pleasured her for what seemed an age , until the uniformity of the thrusting in and out of her steaming fanny stimulated her to a delirious orgasm . |
15 | But was that not what she wanted — for a voice outside the clamour of her own head to tell her that she need not go back , that she must not go back ? |
16 | The shape of his spine seemed to ask to be stroked , and his sharp intake of breath when she did so made her more aware suddenly of her own power to affect him . |
17 | Taking it back to the post office herself and explaining the circumstances she met with every kind of difficulty about the redirection and was compelled to pay out of her own pocket to have it seen to . |
18 | In the east , despite Germany 's great success at the Battle of Tannenberg , Russian mobilization of her limitless manpower enabled her again to threaten East Prussia and , in the south , Galicia . |
19 | So , she would lose Patrick , first to medical school and then later to a practice — and she would ensure that it would be one of the finest in the city — and then she supposed there would be a wife and children … and the intensity of her sudden anger surprised her . |
20 | " You 'll take some treacle tart , " she told Daniel , the set of her pugnacious jaw warning him that she was not asking a question so much as issuing a command . |
21 | Not to thank you , I mean — and Rose — oh , dear … ’ and her face crumpled , but the steely resolution which lay beneath her outward charm prevented her from giving way to the hysterics which she knew would take her over if she allowed herself to show any weakness . |
22 | She complained bitterly about her husband being so confused and his always forgetting what she had told him without having any insight into her own ability to confuse him and other people . |
23 | She crept down , keeping her suitcase under her right arm to conceal it as best she could with her body . |
24 | ‘ It was Faye , dear , silly Faye , with her ridiculous attempt to doll you up into the sort of woman she thought I 'd want . |
25 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
26 | A retrospective arranged by Roger Billcliffe for the Fine Art Society to coincide with her 85th birthday confirmed her as one of Scotland 's partially hidden treasures . |
27 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
28 | With her conscious mind telling her what to say and do , her emotions rebelled and she heard herself say something quite contradictory to its orders : |
29 | An allowance from her father over and above her paltry salary enabled her to buy these commodities whenever , and indeed wherever , they were available . |
30 | She made a cup of tea , and sat down at the table in her tiny kitchen to drink it . |