Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthea leaned back in the chair and idly tapped her teeth with the knuckles of her left hand . |
| 2 | She now flapped her hand as if shooing something away , then went out of the kitchen and onto the landing , and here , as she had before , she stopped , but only long enough to raise her eyes to the whitewashed ceiling as her mind said , Dear God , do n't let anything come of this . |
| 3 | As Japan 's strength grew , so did her ambitions on the Asian mainland and her ability to advance them . |
| 4 | Throwing him a look of haughty disdain , she bent down to push her boots into the ski-bindings , furiously aware that he was watching her every move . |
| 5 | Suddenly fearful she 'd attack him , he turned without picking the lamp up , only to find that the woman had already claimed her clothes from the snarl of sheets and was retreating to the bedroom door . |
| 6 | Jacqui 's occupation had n't improved it ; she was n't the sort of girl who immediately revolutionized a place and gave it a woman 's touch ; she just spread her belongings over the widest possible area . |
| 7 | Always start ‘ Tall , good-looking Mary Smith , as she stepped out of her cottage that morning , did not realize she would not see her children until the following , three months later . |
| 8 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 9 | I often thought her blindness was not entirely physical : she wanted finally to shut her eyes to the sorrows and miseries of the son she still adored , for she could not bear to see me suffering . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've coloured hair lots of times , ’ Mandy muttered , not removing her eyes from the binoculars she had screwed into them . |
| 11 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 12 | Tell her not to do her nails at the table . |
| 13 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 14 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 15 | The skirt did not reach her calves at the ideal point for flattery . |
| 16 | ‘ How did it look ? ’ she asked Morris , not taking her eyes off the screen . |
| 17 | Jess spoke fiercely , not taking her eyes from the raddled face , daring her to deny it . |
| 18 | And she did not hide her feelings over the split with Gowersor her previous partner . |
| 19 | ‘ Or what if , ’ said Alistair , ‘ — or what if Brad just gives her directions to the hospital ? ’ |
| 20 | It was going to be important not to arouse her suspicions during the planning stages . |
| 21 | It seems that my wife has already conceived her doubts about the work we are doing here . |
| 22 | Indeed , she was asked why she had not sent her children to the mine . |
| 23 | Jane was no great cook , and did n't even enjoy it , but she had brought up a family of four , so quickly got her bearings in the kitchen , which was off the main circular room . |
| 24 | Maggie herself , he knew , understood the situation well enough : there was no one more sensible than Maggie ; but her auntie , who seemed to have taken the place of her mother and , like a mother , had her future interests at heart , was always bringing her qualities to the fore for him to admire . |
| 25 | Quickly wiping her fingers on the cotton wool , she tore a large plaster from its paper envelope and pressed the dressing into place over the lacerated bump . |
| 26 | The little man 's hand shot out again and Caroline quickly raised her eyes to the ceiling . |
| 27 | So Chogyam-Jones and Fruitbat came , arriving an hour early , when Eva was still shaving her legs in the bath in the kitchen . |
| 28 | Over the next few afternoons Mrs Phelps could hardly take her eyes from the small girl sitting for hour after hour in the big armchair at the far end of the room with the book on her lap . |
| 29 | Chasing him , she had rapidly lost her bearings in the heavy forest terrain and only by accident had come out again behind the house into the vegetable garden . |
| 30 | In this extract as a whole , we can trace speaker B's attempt to contribute to what she thinks they 're about , by first offering some remarks on telephones and then on the father , but gradually reducing her comments to the type of contentless noises described by Duncan ( 1973 ) as back channels . |