Example sentences of "her [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Her sons kissed her on the forehead .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 She felt his staff tremble , and she sucked with her lips to milk him with the expertise of a milkmaid .
5 She laughed caustically , her eyes meeting his in the mirror of the pool , challenging him .
6 And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door .
7 Her eyes beseeched him for the truth .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Her obligations stared her in the face , but she did not flinch !
11 She struggled to her feet to see him to the door .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living .
15 When my young cousin 's pet budgie died , her parents buried it in the garden while she was asleep to avoid her being upset .
16 We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre .
17 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 .
18 A few months previously she would have gone on to implore Camille not to let her friends eat everything in the fridge .
19 So I kept my mouth shut even as her hands lathered me in the colour of dirt .
20 In her effort to record the delight she derives from such details , evidently travelling as far afield as the US and Turkey , her outdoor work recalls both the practice of Marjorie Content 's work of 1928 in picking out the pattern of urban activity and its settings , and Lee Friedlander when focusing on the witty suggestibility of statues and lamp-posts , while her interiors remind me of the work of Margaret Watkins of 1919 .
21 Mary 's submission to her lords brought none of the forgiveness which they had implied .
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