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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Or what if , ’ said Alistair , ‘ — or what if Brad just gives her directions to the hospital ? ’ |
| 9 | It seems that my wife has already conceived her doubts about the work we are doing here . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The little man 's hand shot out again and Caroline quickly raised her eyes to the ceiling . |
| 14 | So Chogyam-Jones and Fruitbat came , arriving an hour early , when Eva was still shaving her legs in the bath in the kitchen . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Following on from the IWM 's history of Duxford work , Mary is now getting her teeth into the service history of the IWM/Shuttleworth combined Sea Hurricane I restoration project . |
| 19 | SCOTTISH champion Emma Donaldson , who rose to her highest world ranking of 39 last week , has now set her sights on the Far East in a bid to make further progress , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 20 | She had somehow trained herself by now to block her ears to the ghastly sound of the dreaded box . |
| 21 | By the middle of the following week , however , she was really missing her trips to the pool and she decided that on Wednesday afternoon , which was one of the afternoons when David was n't at the factory , she would take a chance and go for a swim . |
| 22 | Adam indicated Billie who was now stretching her legs in the terminal . |
| 23 | She bent a little to lean her fists on the window seat , with her back to him . |
| 24 | She had continuously offered her services to the RCM committee as a foster parent , but they had never found a suitable child and perhaps also felt that she was too poor to cope . |
| 25 | Americans increasingly heard her cries as the bellowing of the dying bull . |
| 26 | She was always careful while here to cast her inquiries in the form of statements and she said , choosing her words meticulously , ‘ I expect Jasper was a bit off-colour this morning so you felt it wiser not to send him to school . |
| 27 | His big hand enclosed hers , ruthlessly prised her fingers from the key and insolently took possession of it . |
| 28 | But she could well match her rivals over the 50-metre sprints at the meet , which this year will also incorporate the Super Final of the Uncle Ben 's Rice British Grand Prix series.GOLF : A statue of Harry Vardon which , as reported in The Daily Telegraph , was stolen from the South Herts golf club in north London last month , has been located in the Hendon area . |
| 29 | The officer then reported her remarks to the court . |
| 30 | She held the grip for a second or two , released it and then stroked her fingertips along the edge of the muscle . |