Example sentences of "her [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took her frilly cap out of the locker and skewered it to her hair with the pins , adjusting it until she was satisfied that it was absolutely correct . |
| 2 | He lay quietly , with a comfortable feeling of pleasant anticipation of the day before him , imagining his mother in her pale blue Sunday outfit getting her European car out of the garage and manoeuvring it down to the United church . |
| 3 | My aunt asked a few questions , and ascertained that the lady 's pain was originating from her lower right abdomen — the general area of her right thigh up to the right side of her stomach . |
| 4 | She drew her right hand out from the folds of her apron and thrust a piece of paper at him , averting her eyes as she did so . |
| 5 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
| 6 | Rachaela took her damp hair out of the towel . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , Ross … ’ she sighed helplessly as he lowered her damp body on to the cool sheets . |
| 8 | She banged her empty glass down on the desk , as though she had expected to find the surface several centimetres lower than it actually was . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , ’ she mourned , and , placing her empty cup down on the table , she felt quite disappointed that , come the time for the fountain to be switched on , she would be back in England . |
| 10 | Also , although ashamed as we can see in Act 2 Scene 6 , lines 30–32 and 34–40 , her simple carrying out of the deed is immoral and dishonest . |
| 11 | The ice was beginning to melt , and she could hear the drip of water from her ice-cold slit on to the ground . |
| 12 | ‘ Silly girl walked off with my car-keys , ’ Leo lied , giving an acceptable excuse for her sudden dash out of the shop . |
| 13 | Two men held out their sheepskin coats to shield the camera from the slanting snow , another lay full length in the drift to hold the tripod steady as Hannah led her white cow out of the storm and into the byre . |
| 14 | Lucy smiled again , especially at Sergeant Lewis , as he carried her heavy suitcase out to the taxi . |
| 15 | Good news for the Bamford Meet , thought Meredith , scooping her boiled egg out of the pan . |
| 16 | She dumped her overnight bag on to the floor and smiled at Robyn . |
| 17 | She sighed again , and switched off the light and dropped her unread book on to the floor . |
| 18 | Doreen puts her youthful zest down to the fact that she met ‘ the right man at the right time ’ . |
| 19 | She snarled as she leapt from her subterranean tunnel out into the sunlight , on to the bloodstained sand . |
| 20 | And the grandmother 's homily in all its macabre detail , leading up to ‘ so if the dead could shave there 's no excuse for the living ’ releases a humorous response because it seems just what a respectable parent would say , in desperation to whip her errant son back to the straight ‘ n ’ narrow . |
| 21 | Emotions were running high as Lady Thatcher made her triumphal entrance on to the conference platform . |