Example sentences of "[vb past] her [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thérèse drew her forefinger across the cool iron and traced a zigzag . |
| 2 | She jerked her head towards the far wall . |
| 3 | She kicked off her shoes then crouched down in front of the stereo and traced her fingernail along the impressive collection of compact discs , selected one , and fed it into the machine . |
| 4 | Sycorax fainted , and Ariel bent her cheek to the discoloured cheek of the old woman and licked the salt that fell in her tears , and when she reached the cabin took her inside where the rush screens would keep the flies off her wounds , and made her as comfortable as she could on the ground , with fresh dressings on her burns , a cool soaked cloth on her forehead . |
| 5 | Merrill dabbed her mouth with the big damask napkin and put it down . |
| 6 | Delia Sutherland moved her scrutiny to the other palm . |
| 7 | During her walks , she doubtless ripened her belief in the moral purpose of clothing . |
| 8 | Quickly , Caroline scrawled her signature on the proffered form . |
| 9 | Walking up to him , the dignity she was trying to maintain spoiled when she caught her foot in the trailing bedspread and nearly fell over , she demanded , ‘ Hold out your hands . ’ |
| 10 | She eventually found her way to the social services department . |
| 11 | She d certainly changed her tune from the other day . |
| 12 | Many years later Constance changed her view of the southern landscape . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 14 | Charity was thankful for the sunglasses that shielded her surprise from the other woman 's prying eyes . |
| 15 | Instead he used her remark as the perfect occasion for a quarrel . |
| 16 | Trish voiced her support for the vice-presidential campaign of Gerlandine Ferraro . |
| 17 | Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day . |
| 18 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 19 | She led her horse to the very edge of the woodland , and peered out through the scrub at the rise of land before her . |
| 20 | Becky led her partner up the wooden staircase to the first floor and began a guided tour . |
| 21 | Isabel laid her cheek against the abused pillow and her eyelids drooped . |
| 22 | As she laid her hand on the little mare 's neck , she quivered violently , but did n't move away . |
| 23 | When Warner Bros , the company with which she had signed an exclusive long-term contract , squandered her potential during the Thirties in a series of amusing but , for her , unfulfilling potboilers ( eg Fashions of 1934 , The Big Shakedown , Jimmy the Gent , Fog over Frisco ) , she took the unprecedented step of departing for England , where she could continue working outside of American jurisdiction . |
| 24 | Tired by her journey from the north of England and the heat , she had decided to defer unpacking until the next day , standing her cases temporarily to one side of the curtain that divided her cabin from the small galley . |
| 25 | Ruth divided her attention between the changing colours of the sea and sky and the profile of Fernando 's head . |
| 26 | She did not believe that she could bring Scathach back to life , but he could at least be with her in the fortress as she made her journey into the first forest , as she went in search of whatever it was that had ensnared Harry , made him a prisoner in Old Forbidden Place . |
| 27 | Then she made her way to the Federal Medical Centre in the prison complex at Lexington , Kentucky , in defiant style , cheating the merciless media of a final picture by arriving at 4am . |
| 28 | She went into the house and made her way to the small suite of rooms that Bonard and his staff of two used as offices . |
| 29 | She made her way to the small side gate that opened on to the alley and which in the daytime was kept permanently open so that tradesmen could make their way to the kitchens through the vegetable garden . |
| 30 | Hurriedly , with her head down , she made her way to the nearest entrance that would take her back into the factory . |