Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
| 2 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 3 | Maggie was stabbing her finger at the different plates on the table , and her aunt wagged her head and pursed her lips before she said , flatly , ‘ I 'm courting one of the airmen ; he comes to Donald 's farm . ’ |
| 4 | Lips compressed into a thin line of tension , she strode along the corridor and into her office , wrinkling her nose at the musty smell of stale air . |
| 5 | She spent £3,000 on driving lessons over four years before passing her test at the 29th attempt . |
| 6 | Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed , suckling her baby at the same time . |
| 7 | Pointing her finger at the misplaced moral fervour of the WSPU and the LNA , she claimed that these ‘ dabblers in debauchery ’ had set middle-class women on the rampage against an evil they knew nothing about . |
| 8 | and she was having her drink at the same time |
| 9 | Making her debut at the Royal National Theatre in February , Frances Barber stars as a hotel manageress in Richard Eyre 's revival of the Tennessee Williams classic , The Night Of The Iguana . |
| 10 | It made him laugh to see her standing there , shaking her fist at the departing van . |
| 11 | Almost violently , she raised her body , ducking her head at the same time , her feverish lips seeking the scorching lure of his again , the demand for his kiss born out of an intuitive need to let him silence her , so that he might not hear the words and other sounds which would tell him just how complete his dominion of her senses already was . |
| 12 | Without her even being aware of it he had somehow moved into the cabin , leaving her standing at the open door . |
| 13 | The vision of Mrs Thatcher raising her arms at the Tory Party Conference and saying she is ‘ proud to be old ’ is so unlikely that it makes us smile . |
| 14 | ‘ Gee up now , ’ she cried , clicking her tongue at the old mare . |
| 15 | ‘ Th'heard what she said — they 've finished with us , ’ jerking her thumb at the closed door . |