Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 2 | She looked about her at the freshness of the morning , then laughed and , pulling her hair out of the tight bun she had secured it in to ride , shook her head . |
| 3 | We look forward to his arrival in Britannia again and Boudicca is saving some good legs for him , — in fact they belong to a soldier of the IXth Legion who did n't hear her shout ‘ Get outta the way you stupid git ’ when she was trying her chariot out on the new road . |
| 4 | He rose and helped her to her feet , steadying her as she eased her weight on to the injured ankle . |
| 5 | ‘ Stupendous — spectacular , ’ she offered distractedly , forcing her mind back to the mind-fazing wonders of the gorge running between mountains of pure marble and through thirty-eight tunnels , and even spanned at one point by a bridge of marble . |
| 6 | Motion made , and Question proposed , That a further sum not exceeding £1,680,076,000 be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund to defray the charges that will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1992 for expenditure by the Department of Social Security on non-contributory retirement pensions , Christmas bonus payments to pensioners , pensions etc. , for disablement or death arising out of war or service in the armed forces after 2nd September 1939 and on sundry other services , on attendance allowances , invalid care allowance , severe disablement allowance , mobility allowance ; on pensions gratuities and sundry allowances for disablement and specified deaths arising from industrial causes ; on income support , transitional payment , child benefit , one parent benefit , family credit , and on the vaccine damage payment scheme . |
| 7 | Caroline hitched her bottom on to the wide windowsill , put up one leg , and leaned back against the frame . |
| 8 | Kirk finds God in the slightly rubbish STAR TREK V : THE FINAL FRONTIER and Jane Fonda gets her kit off for the evil Duran Duran in groovy pop-art romp BARBARELLA . |
| 9 | Defries continued to shoot , locking her beam on to the diminishing targets and sending light-fast bursts of energy into the shadowy interstices of metalwork high above . |
| 10 | Shelley shrugged , and turned her attention back to the tall figure in the centre of attention . |
| 11 | Maggie quickly brought her attention back to the cross-eyed girl and forgot all about the young man . |
| 12 | She had urged her husband out into the large society in and about Liverpool but the forays had not been happy . |
| 13 | She 's elderly and hardly ever puts her nose out of the front door . |
| 14 | As he brushed past her , she dropped her head on to the cold stone of the tomb . |
| 15 | Sliding into the scented water , she laid her head back against the cool surface of the bath , willing the heat to relax her tired and knotted muscles . |
| 16 | She rested her head back against the soft leather seat , watching the patterns formed by the trees against the night sky as they drove steadily back to the road . |
| 17 | The move completed , Paige sank to the ground and rested her head back against the rising bulk of a tree . |
| 18 | She leant her head back against the hard cushion on the swivel chair , not bothering to open her eyes when the door opened again . |
| 19 | Robyn sat on the bed and tipped two tablets into the palm of her hand , resisting the need to lay her head down on the cool pillow . |
| 20 | Suddenly she wanted to put her head down on the big table and howl with misery . |
| 21 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 22 | The girl stuck her head out into the main office and called across the room . |
| 23 | THE ELBOW was propped on a window sill as a woman stuck her head out through the open casement . |
| 24 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 25 | She pushed her spoon around in the delicious minestra soup , and forced herself to eat some . |
| 26 | Laura fell from her chair on to the dead boy on the floor . |
| 27 | Moving out of the path of the crowd , she put her luggage down on the uneven pavement and looked around . |
| 28 | ‘ Nico 's Dream ’ is a fine example of this , where a sampled fragment of the late ice queen 's vocal is caught in a metal mesh of shifting sound that , for a fleeting moment , brings her spirit back from the dead . |
| 29 | She became a snob ; she thought only of smart society ; and finally she tried to turn her uncle out of the very house in which the most useful things she knew had been inserted into her brain . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , ‘ how — how jolly , ’ and then she put her spoon suddenly into her ice cream and the whole glistening thing slid smoothly off her plate on to the shining red table . |