Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way . |
| 2 | It was a black cleavage-revealing affair topped by a sparkling gold necklace , and with her hair swept up into a sophisticated style the older woman made Lucy feel like a country cousin . |
| 3 | He clambered over and pulled off the covering so quickly her hair bushed out like a halo . |
| 4 | She was small and dark , with her hair scraped back into a bun . |
| 5 | Black silk skirt maroon blouse her hair done up in a bun draped with gold jewellery oh talk about looking the part ! |
| 6 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 7 | Beside her , in a pair of jeans and a comfortable sweatshirt , her hair tied back in a pony-tail , Shannon felt like a stable-hand . |
| 8 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 9 | He was used to contrasts : Mother taking morning tea in bed with an old shawl round her shoulders and her hair pinned up under a boudoir cap , her face sticky with face cream as he kissed her good bye before school ; and Mother in full evening dress decked out in false pearls , her eyelashes beaded with mascara , dominating the stage in any play 's Last act … |
| 10 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 11 | Her heart tumbling about like a circus clown , and suddenly breathless , she said , ‘ I thought you were out . ’ |
| 12 | Her eyes were on his mouth and , as though spellbound , she watched his lips forming the erotic words while heat suffused her body and her heart bounced about like a bumble-puppy . |
| 13 | But , all the same , as she remembered those brief moments in the water , she felt her heart turn over with a flip-flop of pleasure . |
| 14 | A low rumble of thunder made her skin break out in a fine rash of goosepimples , and Julius glanced at her sharply as he noticed them . |
| 15 | And the windows on the ground floor at least were too high to reach , otherwise she could have sacrificed her sweater to hang out like a flag of distress . |
| 16 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 17 | Lissa drew her robe around herself in a protective gesture , her mind frozen over like a bleak winter landscape . |
| 18 | A LONE woman driver says she waited six hours to be rescued by the RAC when her car broke down on a motorway at night . |
| 19 | But fortunately at that moment her gynaecologist called in for a brief visit and Brian went off to the nursery . |
| 20 | Suddenly something she had heard her daddy read out from a newspaper flashed back to her . |
| 21 | Had her feelings and longings as she had lain in the grass , remembering Dick and their lovemaking , her body crying out for a repetition of the act , forged a false link in her mind ? |
| 22 | ‘ I do hope it 's nothing serious , ’ said Julia politely , thinking that it was rather hard on his wife to spend her honeymoon feeling ill while her husband sat in on a war crimes trial . |
| 23 | Isobel looked up and laughed herself , her nose wrinkling up like a child 's . |
| 24 | Whoever she was living with , roused by the smell of burning , had come downstairs to discover her slumped across the hearth with her head pressed up against a glowing electric fire . |
| 25 | The whooping and laughing boys carried her back to the village , her head dangling down from a branch slotted between her feet . |
| 26 | She was sitting down by the gate , one hand on her neck , her head canted over at a fierce angle . |
| 27 | And Nurse Cohen above him , her head snapped back by a blow and the blood splintering from it . |
| 28 | Nosey parkering round the piles of recently acquired books while her hostess goes off for a pee , she announces on Rainbow 's return — ‘ I was right . |
| 29 | I am dying , she thought , as her forehead broke out into a fine sweat , I do not even have to think of it , my mind is on other things , but there is a disturbance , quite plainly to be felt , in the mechanism of my heart . |
| 30 | At ten-thirty-five , a stout woman in a blue overall with plain , pale-blue collar and cuffs to denote her seniority came up with a clipboard and said , ‘ Tim and Anna . |