Example sentences of "and [v-ing] her [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , Hannah had to take her place on the Baldersdale treadmill , working to the orders of her uncle in the fields ( her father died when she was an infant ) and assisting her mother in the kitchen and wash house . |
| 2 | ‘ On the dole , more likely , ’ says Sandra , suppressing a yawn , and checking her appearance in the mirrored wall behind her mother 's back . |
| 3 | Laura yawned , cuddling up closer to him and pressing her cheek into the curve of his shoulder . |
| 4 | Unable to save herself , with a startled cry she pitched forward , tumbling down the remaining stairs and banging her head on the stone floor . |
| 5 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
| 6 | With a gasp she was on her feet and pushing her way to the door . |
| 7 | On his way to the restaurant he passed a man and a woman arm in arm , a man walking purposefully , as if late for an appointment , a woman standing next to her car and searching her bag for the key . |
| 8 | Immediately she was surrounded by the other occupants of the pool , who crowded around her , laughing and urging her right into the water and ignoring the grey-haired woman who was trying to keep them under control . |
| 9 | Carmella was the only calm one , and picking her way through the shambles , she called the Police to sort it out ! |
| 10 | At the same time , she felt a sense of guilt , of disloyalty , that she could even for an instant contemplate the idea of deserting her mother and turning her back on the place she called home . |
| 11 | Besides , what would she be doing , wearing Paris gowns and getting her picture in the paper , ? ’ |
| 12 | And holding her hand with the occasional stolen kiss was all their physical relationship amounted too . |
| 13 | She spent her days walking her dogs and riding her pony in the large garden . |
| 14 | She ran to him , wrapping her arms around his chest , and burying her cheek against the solid comfort of his ribcage . |
| 15 | " Tilda , " said Martha , stopping suddenly and taking her sister by the shoulders , " I 'll give you anything you like , within reason , to go back to the boats and stay there . " |
| 16 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 17 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 18 | He stretched across her once more to shut the lead door , his arm in front of her face and blocking her view of the box . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll make a proper job of this ! ’ she declared , and putting her fist into the crown , she forced it up as high as she could push it , and wore the resulting sombrero for the rest of the term . |
| 20 | ‘ OK , OK ! ’ she mumbled breathlessly before quickly picking up her suitcase and making her way into the large bedroom . |
| 21 | She looked away , closing her eyes and lifting her face to the breeze . |
| 22 | She taught in a health club ; aerobics , that kind of thing , and the next we knew she was wearing hot pants on a street corner in New York and strutting her stuff at the cars . |
| 23 | Now that she was free to choose , Ianthe looked forward to going to the same church every Sunday and finding her place in the congregation . |
| 24 | She had come to the Centre in the depths of despair , weeping , gnashing her teeth and venting her hatred upon the doctors who had told her , at the eleventh hour that she had cancer and nothing could be done . |
| 25 | Clenching her fists and raising her face to the grey sky she whispered : " O Lord , give Sam the greater catch ! " |
| 26 | So she gave up , and sat between the vines in the hot sun , alternately sleeping and working her way through the dusty volumes of Peregrine Pickle , bound in crimson and gold leather , with real bookworms making agitated forays from their dark crannies into the heat and light across the extraordinary scenes where Smollett 's elderly ladies retained their urine indefinitely to put out putative fires , or sweetened their foul breaths with violet cachous to deceive desired young lovers . |
| 27 | She flies back and forth in her cage as much as it 's possible , dashing her talons against the bars and hitting her beak against the top . |
| 28 | She put her head back and roared with laughter at this , before shaking her head and restoring her attention to the road . |
| 29 | They now practically set upon her , pulling off her hat , her coat , and unbuttoning her dress from the back . |