Example sentences of "[vb past] her [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She moved her head slowly now and seemed to be making an effort to speak , and then she muttered , ‘ You 'll be getting your calling up papers eventually , in any case , so why … ? |
| 2 | She inserted her key as quietly as possible in the front door of the house where she had a room and crept upstairs . |
| 3 | Writing this down , I realize she is afraid , but this morning she shared her fear so publicly and laughed so heartily that this did n't strike me till now . |
| 4 | Sukova made her work extremely hard before she was able to celebrate a 4-6 , 6-1 , 6-4 victory . |
| 5 | The shock of those soft words made her jump so badly that the room swayed , and with a gasp she felt the jade fly from her hand . |
| 6 | Roman 's cool , unexpected summons made her jump so violently that she spilled some champagne down the front of her dress . |
| 7 | Drawing a long breath , Sophie shook her head and hugged her godmother so lovingly that Helen 's eyes filled with tears . |
| 8 | Anger gave her an added surge of strength , and she twisted her arm sharply downwards and broke his grip . |
| 9 | Then she saw the man 's face through the open mouth and immediately turned her head away so that she appeared to be looking at something of consuming interest outside the window . |
| 10 | He bent to take her mouth , but with the very last vestige of control she turned her face away so that his lips skimmed hard and firm along the line of her jaw . |
| 11 | She turned her face as far as she could towards Marie . |
| 12 | She shook her head so violently that her hair flew . |
| 13 | She shook her head so violently that it hurt her neck . |
| 14 | He wisely asked for the downward transition after a circuit and the mare came down to trot , threw her head up briefly and then rounded again . |
| 15 | She defended her case so well that the prior gave judgement in her favour . |
| 16 | He touched her face very tenderly and believed he felt warm flesh . |
| 17 | He pressed her head back so that it rested on his shoulder . |
| 18 | Gavin leaned over the table and gently tipped her chin upwards so that she was forced to look into his eyes . |
| 19 | She had already known , half consciously , that she liked her grandmother better than she liked her mother , and loved her mother more fiercely than she loved her grandmother . |
| 20 | Finding it , and telling him bluntly , ‘ That 's going to be the size of an egg soon ! ’ she pulled her hand away again and found touches of blood . |
| 21 | ( During a lunch given in his honour by the British in the island , the wife of one of the wine-shippers bit her tongue rather painfully and asked Lloyd George if he ever did that . |
| 22 | She should have done so ages ago ; and if she knew her friend as well as she thought she did , then she would be intrigued and delighted by the whole affair . |
| 23 | It was clear , furthermore , she was a housekeeper who took her work very seriously and in spite of her youth , she seemed to have no difficulty gaining the respect of her staff . |
| 24 | She blew her nose as daintily as was possible in the circumstances and handed the handkerchief back with a wan smile . |
| 25 | Frustrated , she changed into her gardening clothes and went out to collect and spread her promised share of Iris 's manure heap — an activity which cleared her mind wonderfully so that when Harris rang at two o'clock she had at her fingertips every point she wanted to put to him . |
| 26 | She performed her task so well that it was twenty minutes before she brought him to a thundering climax . |
| 27 | Bravely , she shut her mind as firmly as she could against the fears that kept crowding in on her as she hurried through the shadows cast by great trees or trod across soggy glades that made her think with a shudder of hidden bogs . |
| 28 | She plaited her hair so tightly that it hurt her , straining hair and flesh until it felt as though the white seam down the back of her head might split and the brains gush out . |
| 29 | Now he pretended to be waving his cape at the bull and executed a neat veronica , then she kicked her leg up backwards and touched her heel with her fingers while he looked scornfully on with one hand behind his back palm facing outwards . |
| 30 | Cora-Beth tilted her head sideways so that for a brief moment her cheek rested against his hand . |