Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] her [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amber is for ‘ caution ’ behaviour , which you do n't encourage but tolerate because your child is still learning and making mistakes : something like digging holes in the lawn with his spade or hurling her toys across the room in a moment of fury . |
| 2 | Mrs Parkin would take quick sidelong looks at her new daughter-in-law , hoping to catch her out , but there she 'd always be , merry as a chicken , tra-la-lahing amongst the pots and pans in the kitchen , or lipsticking her lips in the frameless octagonal mirror in the parlour , or telling her rosary in front of the Virgin , apparently more devout even than Bernard , the most devout of all her sons . |
| 3 | She reached for the little wrist and laid her fingers against the inside . |
| 4 | Again , she would clench her fist and ram her knuckles into the face of her driver , 3-wood or whatever . |
| 5 | He was wearing a T-shirt , and she slid her hands beneath it and threaded her fingers through the soft curls on his chest . |
| 6 | If she were her normal self she would be pottering happily around Simone , laughing whenever she got in her way and sticking her fingers in the food . |
| 7 | Dr Christine Henderson , the first such volunteer , had recently returned from Zimbabwe and described her experiences to the IC , providing graphic examples of the sort of problems that could encountered . |
| 8 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 9 | She stepped up to his desk , as he continued flicking through some papers , and fixed her eyes on the top of his arrogant head . |
| 10 | A one-parent family , living on scraps from the educational world , too proud to seek refuge and warm her hands on the tepid thickly painted radiators of Leeds , to cast off her jerseys and socks on the radiant central heating of Sussex , to lie half-naked in that ill-starred farmhouse in Tuscany . |
| 11 | She could sense Guy watching her with narrowed attention , and clenched her hands inside the pockets of her suede waistcoat , battling to get her reactions under control . |
| 12 | Guido climbed out and snatched her cases from the back seat . |
| 13 | Then the Houston Post reported that Kay Bailey Hutchison , the favoured Republican candidate , had occasionally slapped and pinched her employees at the state treasurer 's office . |
| 14 | Since their arrival at ‘ La Felicità ’ she seemed to have forgotten all the social life she was missing in England and devoted her energies to the narcissistic process of going brown , measuring each day the contrast between her exposed wrist and the satisfying white band left beneath her watch-strap . |
| 15 | She slammed the boot down , with a cry of ‘ God Almighty ! ’ and ran indoors , where she sat down at the kitchen table and beat her fists against the wood , with anger , with frustration , with a sudden , desperate concern for Nick . |
| 16 | The Great Dane barked once and sank her teeth into the boy 's dangling hand . |
| 17 | She got a full nelson , and sank her claws into the back of her neck , pressing the Daughter 's face to the hard-beaten earth of the street . |
| 18 | Unaware that she was screaming , Christine reached towards his face with her one good arm and hooked her fingers into the burns which crusted his cheek . |
| 19 | My blaster , ’ she said , backing towards a wall and keeping her eyes on the widening gap between the doors . |
| 20 | Grainne took the hot fragrant wine gratefully , and cupped her hands about the goblet for warmth . |
| 21 | He sipped the hot mug of tea and watched Molly lay out his clothes by the fire with one hand , and remove her curlers with the other . |
| 22 | She could only do that if he kept her secrets and obeyed her instructions to the letter . |
| 23 | The volatile combination of passion and laughter was so overwhelming that Virginia shut her eyes and tangled her fingers in the ruffled dark hair and began to drown in the exquisite taste and texture and sensation of kissing Guy and being kissed back very comprehensively in return . |
| 24 | ‘ You and me both , ’ Jane grumbled , standing up and smoothing her hands down the front of her creased navy and white pleated skirt . |
| 25 | Jane reached out and rested her fingers on the back of his hand . |
| 26 | Holding her head high , she went over to the rail and rested her fingers on the chrome , looking out over the sparkling , sun-streaked water . |
| 27 | She put down the bread knife and rested her hands on the table . |
| 28 | Robbie had to fight down an impulse to reach out and run her fingers over the dark mat . |
| 29 | Tabitha sighed in annoyance and drummed her fingers on the desktop . |
| 30 | In what must rank as one of the most ingenious ruses in the history of Hampden Babylon , Patsy Gallacher struck up a relationship with the hotel chambermaid and borrowed her clothes for the night . |