Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] her [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile I saw her breasts for the first time . |
| 2 | I spiked her guns by the simple expedient of ringing Nigel right away , told him the truth , and instructed him to fetch her home and keep her there . |
| 3 | Two wholly unnecessary words which skimmed her cheeks to a blush . |
| 4 | Sarah had joined them through another miracle , a cloak thrown by Mary Jacobus which upheld her feet on the water . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , there was constant stress which tested her reserves to the limit . |
| 6 | Kylie is speaking after an amazing journey which tested her nerves to the full . |
| 7 | His fingers with corrugated nails pressed hard , moving north ; she felt them separating her thighs through the tweed of her skirt , the rayon of the lining , the nylon of her slip . |
| 8 | She made a little rite of soaking her feet in a corn cure called ‘ Reudel ’ , and as she lowered her feet into the bowl of steaming water there was again that little look , that narrowing of the eyes and pursing of the lips , which said so much with so little disturbance of her features . |
| 9 | He scrutinised her closely as she lowered her legs to the floor and his hand went out as she stood . |
| 10 | She read her books with an intense concentration — and she learned what Johnny had to do , and of the terrible odds that were stacked against him ; for as she , in her time , moved towards the middle of July , she knew that , for Johnny , it was August ; and in one of her books she learned that it was in August , between the 8th and the 15th , that the most heavily concentrated forces of enemy bombers had been sent against the military installations , and the ports and airfields of Britain . |
| 11 | You checked her whereabouts on the computer . ’ |
| 12 | She grazed her knuckles on the corner of the fusebox . |
| 13 | For the last 30 years of her life Lady Onslow lived at Notting Hill Gate , and in the mid-1970s she led her neighbours in a rates protest against the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . |
| 14 | She laid her hands on the top of his shoulders and kneaded the base of his neck with her thumbs . |
| 15 | Although the older sister lived away , she travelled to stay with her sister occasionally and during one visit , after she made her allegations in a family meeting which she had joined , the counsellor asked her to take over the caring role for the final week of her stay so that her sister could actually see how it should be done . |
| 16 | She wiped her eyes with a lace handkerchief and he caught the drift of her exotic scent . |
| 17 | She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand , knowing in her heart that it was an excuse to curtail the physical contact with him . |
| 18 | She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand . |
| 19 | She wiped her eyes with the back of a grubby forefinger and added more practically , ‘ You do n't have to worry about them , I 'm sure . |
| 20 | She wiped her lips on a vast white napkin and emptied her glass of wine . |
| 21 | She wiped her lips on the paper and crumpling it up , tucked it demurely between the seat and the wall . |
| 22 | She wiped her hands on the white T-shirt she was wearing , leaving pink smears all over it . |
| 23 | She wiped her hands on the backside of her shorts . |
| 24 | This was exactly what she had been afraid of — flibbertigibbet though she was in most things , Candy could be positively terrier-like if she got her teeth into a mystery , refusing to let go until she 'd solved everything to her satisfaction . |
| 25 | When she got her hands on the bugger , that was . |
| 26 | She compressed her lips into a hard line . |
| 27 | She ground her teeth with the effort of keeping her strained lungs in check , using all four limbs for propulsion through water which echoed hollowly with the slap of bullets seeking her . |
| 28 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 29 | It was still early , as she could tell from the light filtering through her curtains , and she narrowed her eyes at the sight of a cross Dana , who was obviously prepared to shake her again . |
| 30 | Her mind was floating over turquoise waves and she narrowed her eyes against an ocean that sparkled silver all the way to the horizon . |