Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The string that had once been fastened lightly round her toe had tightened during the years of marriage , slowly tightened into a leash . |
| 2 | Her robe lay discarded on the floor ; beside it his own sodden pile of clothes had spread a wet stain of rainwater onto the carpet . |
| 3 | The unchaperoned freedom with which she and her sister had gone about the city with their prospective husbands had given rise to the ‘ hostile breath of rumour ’ , and had encouraged a general belief that ‘ Pantisocracy meant a system of things which dispensed with the marriage-tie ’ . |
| 4 | And so , she said , ‘ You seem to have been busy this morning , Isabel , ’ but absently remembering the bumping noises from above and the journeys her sister had made to the front sitting room ( locking the door after her ) and back again to the attic ( locking the door ) . |
| 5 | She was dressed as a munitions worker , and when he switched on the light her hair had blazed under the dim bulb . |
| 6 | When Luke called her heart seemed to expand at the look of admiration that slipped over his face as his gaze took in her simple cream suit in thick , crunchy lace , the severe black camisole she wore beneath it , but he merely murmured , ‘ Punctual as always . |
| 7 | Her handbag had fallen behind the car seat when she 'd stopped at the traffic lights in town so several minutes were lost as she scrabbled for her pass , then when she drove into the car park she could n't immediately find a space and had to drive round several times . |
| 8 | Her mind kept wrestling with the problem of her identity , her imagination running riot as she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her . |
| 9 | The crux came when she became doubly incontinent and her mind had got to the point where she had forgotten how her body functioned . |
| 10 | He was obviously interested in the past history of the house , and , by the time they returned to the dance-floor , all her irrational fears and instinctive wariness of the tall dark man by her side had receded into the very back of her mind . |
| 11 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 12 | Her gaze had returned to the circular table , and she was uneasy . |
| 13 | Her gaze came to rest on the inscription at the top of the page . |
| 14 | Although not loud , her laugh seemed to reverberate in the room , destroying its solemnity . |
| 15 | Tallis grew aware of the girl 's angry gaze towards her , then Morthen had slipped away , leaving a swirl of grey smoke where her body had passed by the hearth . |
| 16 | She sipped her tea and her body seemed to sag in the chair . |
| 17 | But slowly her body began to respond to the powerful but gentle kisses , and she began to lose her apprehension . |
| 18 | But she continued , her laughter growing until her body started to shake with the force of it . |
| 19 | Mrs Godwin and her husband had lived in the pictureque village of Spratton for the past four years . |
| 20 | However , while he was still attempting to give his advice to Mrs. Aboody , her husband had burst into the room uninvited and in a high state of excitement . |
| 21 | SHOP OPENINGS COULD BE TRAUMATIC OCCASIONS BUT LAURA ALWAYS PLAYED DOWN HER OWN ROLE AND MADE SURE THE PRESS KNEW HOW MUCH HER HUSBAND HAD CONTRIBUTED TO THE BUSINESS . |
| 22 | The pain in her head had subsided into the background , but she felt it was still dangerously capable of moving once again into the foreground if she got up . |
| 23 | SHE sat on the park bench waiting for Richard , her head turned to look towards the main gate . |
| 24 | Her head remained wedged between the bed and the table , and now one hand was visible by the pillow ’ ( The Cement Garden . |
| 25 | She was n't hungry — her appetite had disappeared during the long moments she had looked into his amber eyes . |
| 26 | Back in London , her name began appearing in the gossip columns . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't like working from pictures in books , ’ she went on , as her pencil began to skim over the first sheet . |
| 28 | Her eyes closed tight shut , and her forehead came to rest on the hands that gripped the bedpost . |
| 29 | Her father had complained to the Water Board every year for the last fifteen of his life that their damned backwashing was washing away his river bank . |
| 30 | Her father had lived at the Old Parsonage at Wouldham and had 10 children . |