Example sentences of "her [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sons kissed her on the forehead . |
| 2 | Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband . |
| 3 | At last they were all free and she pushed the material impatiently aside , her fingers losing themselves in the gloriously thick mat of dark curling hair on his powerful chest . |
| 4 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 5 | Her arms twined around his neck , her body pressing against him , her lips receiving his with a passion that scorched her . |
| 6 | She felt his staff tremble , and she sucked with her lips to milk him with the expertise of a milkmaid . |
| 7 | She laughed caustically , her eyes meeting his in the mirror of the pool , challenging him . |
| 8 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 9 | At the door , Xanthe took her by both hands and held her so hard Miranda felt her nails cut into the palms and her eyes met hers with a pale blue flare , as clear as her father 's , and as unassailable , as she breathed out , holding Miranda by her side , and turned to face her father across the room . |
| 10 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 11 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 12 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 13 | She tried to see if he were concealed among the group hanging around near the circolo , but without lifting her eyes to scan them like a strumpet . |
| 14 | Her legs brought her to a halt in front of a glass case containing a Leeds dinner-service . |
| 15 | She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop . |
| 16 | Her obligations stared her in the face , but she did not flinch ! |
| 17 | She struggled to her feet to see him to the door . |
| 18 | Despairing of ever finding any use for her , her parents sold her to the military , a callous practice common in the commercially minded years of the mid-twenty-fourth century . |
| 19 | At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters . |
| 20 | But as her parents took her for a swim , she collapsed without warning and died . |
| 21 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 22 | When my young cousin 's pet budgie died , her parents buried it in the garden while she was asleep to avoid her being upset . |
| 23 | Her parents shut her in an upstairs room . |
| 24 | An inscription in the Bodleian copy of her Poems describes her as a widow . |
| 25 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
| 26 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 27 | A few months previously she would have gone on to implore Camille not to let her friends eat everything in the fridge . |
| 28 | So I kept my mouth shut even as her hands lathered me in the colour of dirt . |
| 29 | The enangan had no subsequent special rights either in the girl or in her future children though her children addressed him by a title used as a respectful term for " Father " among some neighbouring groups . |
| 30 | The Great Mother has many forms ; each of her children calls her by a different name . |