Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She used to say that Christmas Eve was her favourite day of the year , and her enthusiasm added to the delight of anticipation . |
| 2 | If the Conservatives continued in power , because her GP belongs to a fund-holding practice — a superb Tory system , he insisted — there would be no problem ; he could put her on the waiting list and do the operation next autumn . |
| 3 | They claimed that records of tests which nurses said they carried out on Mrs Bennett had gone missing from the Royal , and details of her case presented to the coroner differed from what they had been told . |
| 4 | Giap 's wife was sentenced to life imprisonment , and died in jail ; her sister went to the guillotine . |
| 5 | Still she did n't reply , unsure how to put her thoughts into words , for she had indeed had doubts about her sister adapting to the environment . |
| 6 | He hoped she was n't proposing to make her presence known to the Twenty-fourthers . |
| 7 | Both eyes opened and her breath rushed out in a small burst of relief as she rolled over on to her back — and her heart slammed to a stop . |
| 8 | He slid up against the pillows , looking so devastatingly sexy with his rumpled hair and heavy eyes that Fran felt her heart jolt to a stop . |
| 9 | Miranda felt her heart crash to the bottom of her ribcage . |
| 10 | Her story came to an end . |
| 11 | She and her Mum go to the pictures often , and on Saturday nights they fry steak and listen to the radio , and talk until the last embers have faded to ash . |
| 12 | Once she 'd made her decision to come to the Dordogne , Sabine had read up as much as possible on the area , and she knew that Bergerac wines had been overshadowed in the past by the great vignobles of Bordeaux . |
| 13 | Her discontent came to a head with the beginning of spring . |
| 14 | He did not move away from her so she slid from beneath the arc of his body , her napkin fell to the floor . |
| 15 | Through the sudden fierce pulsing of her blood , she could hear Taggy describing how she had found her mistress clinging to a bedpost in one of the spare chambers . |
| 16 | And to eat there — how she longed to , to drop the few years that made her different from Cad , to lose the ripeness and rotundities that would always make her different from Cati , who was , really , almost boy-like with her stringbean limbs , yet not quite boyish either , angelic rather ; she was not afflicted with the need Rosa felt , the gap opening inside her , where a longing for something other than what lay within her sights sat in occupation , banging her drum and marking out a new rhythm and new steps for Rosa 's spinning wants , calling down the corridors of Rosa 's body to her innermost inguinal life , till her blood rang to the beat . |
| 17 | " See , " said her father , and putting his arm round her shoulders pointed to the south-west . |
| 18 | For the umpteenth time the leopard-skin coat which she wore slung about her shoulders slid to the carpet . |
| 19 | He could sing of lizard-clad nobles hunting for trophies , and of body-heat orgies and mutations of the eye , and of a lone white-haired woman whose senses had been scarified , locked in a sanctum forever , her mind reaching to the stars ; and out among all those stars and worlds that she spoke to in her mind , no fellow spirit yearned towards her or was able to express any such feeling — ’ |
| 20 | Her eyes fell on two empty jam jars standing on a shelf , and then her mind flew to the clumps of snowdrops she 'd noticed blooming near the entrance to the shearers ' quarters . |
| 21 | Her glance went to the shelves , where there were enough stocks for a mini siege ; dried milk , bottled water , biscuits , soup . |
| 22 | Her glance flew to the Jaguar , parked where it was always parked these days , and a hint of a smile warmed her mouth . |
| 23 | Explain too , how easily a joint tenancy can be converted to a tenancy in common by , for example , simple notice in writing by one party of his or her intention given to the other . |
| 24 | Startled , her eyes shot to the man who had spoken . |
| 25 | As her eyes adjusted to the darkness she saw that the dungeon was a fairly large open area , the light from the sconce barely reaching the furthest walls . |
| 26 | Charity let her eyes move to the view again . |
| 27 | Paige let her eyes go to the window . |
| 28 | Her mother was the original cockeyed optimist , Jo thought fondly , as her eyes strayed to the window . |
| 29 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 30 | Her eyes fell to the paint-peeled , much loved miniature moke which was clutched tight in his plump fist . |