Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
| 3 | She had tied her hair back with a pale blue ribbon , to match the cool , summery blue dress , and she pulled it off , shaking her long hair free . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I am now told that he 's hawking her story around for a six-figure sum , ’ he writes in the 100,000-circulation journal , which is read mainly by journalists , stock-brokers and media personalities . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He rose and helped her to her feet , steadying her as she eased her weight on to the injured ankle . |
| 8 | ‘ Stones arranged in heaps , ’ said Fenella , frowning , reining her horse in to a slow walk . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One of the tenants I met looks through her window on to a neat square garden . |
| 12 | Conservatives were concerned that an old lady can go and collect her pension without coming back to find her gas meter has been robbed , and that a mother can send her child round to a local shop without feat that the child will be molested . |
| 13 | Caroline hitched her bottom on to the wide windowsill , put up one leg , and leaned back against the frame . |
| 14 | She had let her guard down to an enormous extent and the idea of going back to her old life was actually frightening . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Shelley shrugged , and turned her attention back to the tall figure in the centre of attention . |
| 18 | Maggie quickly brought her attention back to the cross-eyed girl and forgot all about the young man . |
| 19 | They had seen little of Rosemary Talbot during the last four months , so it was n't until they had been in their flat for a week and Leith went across the hall to invite Rosemary and her husband over for a celebratory drink that Leith learned that Derek Talbot no longer lived there . |
| 20 | Usually , Dorothy had been engaged in shifting her husband around like an inharmonious piece of furniture . |
| 21 | She had urged her husband out into the large society in and about Liverpool but the forays had not been happy . |
| 22 | She 's elderly and hardly ever puts her nose out of the front door . |
| 23 | She had the audience in her palm and the quality of her character off to a fine art . |
| 24 | As he brushed past her , she dropped her head on to the cold stone of the tomb . |
| 25 | She puts her head back with a nervous , resigned sigh when you put the gun to her head but she does n't try anything as you cuff her hands behind her back . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The move completed , Paige sank to the ground and rested her head back against the rising bulk of a tree . |
| 29 | She leant her head back against the hard cushion on the swivel chair , not bothering to open her eyes when the door opened again . |
| 30 | 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 . |