Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] with a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Elisabeth glanced round the Hall and seeing Mitzi was looking in her direction indicated with a nod and a smile that she would .
2 ‘ It is , if the Master is telling whoppers , ’ replied McAllister grimly , her heart bumping with a combination of fear and excitement , as she continued to be provocative .
3 Ruth rose , her heart beating with a confusion of emotions — but predominant was a sense of rightness , that she and Fand should unite against Fincara .
4 Jenny found herself dragged uncomfortably over the gear-stick and hand-brake , her left cheek was pressed in against her teeth by the pressure of an ardent but misdirected kiss and she felt a button on her cardigan give with a violence which boded ill for Marks and Sparks cowering beneath .
5 Charlotte had been the first to make the connection ; her eyes lit with a spark of alert intelligence which was meant as a communication , and as briefly acknowledged by a warning flicker of George 's glance in her direction .
6 Carol Watkins , who was nine months pregnant , suffered head and pelvic injuries when her car collided with a transit van at Dursley in Gloucestershire .
7 He had never caused her breath to catch in her throat or her mouth to dry with a mixture of hope and dread that he might reach for her .
8 Her pulses leapt with a ferocity that alarmed her .
9 She felt her cheeks flush with a mixture of excitement and anxiety .
10 It seemed that a dark halo enclosed the men 's faces and her head filled with a sound of the sea .
11 Lorry driver Alan Brown saw a woman walking with her head bowed with a man following one pace behind .
12 She foiled their efforts by calmly walking straight up through the pine trees , her head muffled with a headscarf and flat cap , leaving Fleet Street 's finest clueless as to her identity .
13 ‘ Carpenter ? ’ her father asked with a tinge of bewilderment in his voice .
14 ‘ I 'm quite sure you already know ! ’ she snapped shortly , her control disintegrating with a surge of anger .
15 Her mast caught with a crack which could be heard on both sides of the river on the high overhang of the foremost lighter .
16 Mystified , I watched a pale brown girl in her teens enter with a tray on which there were two bottles of whisky — one squarish , one round — glasses , and a jug of water kept clean with a small muslin cover edged with blue beads .
17 Polly looked away , her stomach churning with a nausea that could n't be blamed solely on hunger or seasickness .
18 She took another deep breath and glanced at her watch , her thoughts returning with a prick of concern to Emily and her imminent dental appointment .
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