Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next to him , I saw my mum push her grey hair from her temples . |
| 2 | Joe saw Dolly , blanket-wrapped , tumbled hair touching her bare shoulders . |
| 3 | Opaque scummy floods lapped only a metre below her feet ; a foul smell made her nauseous . |
| 4 | Thinking of her sister made her impatient . |
| 5 | Her cheerful disposition , sympathy , and tact made her popular . |
| 6 | She should be given the opportunity to provide her own solution . |
| 7 | Christy , 34 , Sonny 's daughter from his first marriage , invited her superstar stepmum to launch her Mexican restaurant in Santa Monica , Los Angeles . |
| 8 | What he discovered pleased him because his lips softened against hers and his questing hand slid beneath her hair to find her tender nape and soothe wonderfully . |
| 9 | Siobhan has her own room . |
| 10 | ‘ Because to be fair , Pat , your sister has her own life to lead , and we must all respect that . |
| 11 | A gilt clip fastened her fine hair in a high ponytail , and this peach-toned dress of Sea Island cotton , although it was fairly plain with its simply cut bodice , high-neck , elbow sleeves and knee-length pleated skirt , was n't what any sensible person would wear sailing . |
| 12 | Miss Danziger was not an ugly woman but the Colonel had had to take a long hard look to discover her good features : her bone structure ; strong fair hair streaked with less fair strands ; her pale complexion , unpainted . |
| 13 | The shocked sense of recognition made her breathless ; her heart fluttered in her breast like the trembling of a captured bird . |
| 14 | Choking with revulsion , Isabel tried to fight him , but her own fear made her helpless . |
| 15 | Where a child 's mental condition renders her competent on some days but irrational on others she will lack the ability to make an informed decision ( Re R ( a Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) ( 1991 ) The Times , 31 July ) . |
| 16 | It was a pleasure to wear her former clothes again ; fashions had changed so little that Selene had contrived very well . |
| 17 | In an attempt to support her two surviving children , Kelly became a professional writer , publishing her first novel , Madeline , in 1794 . |
| 18 | He put her gently on her feet and the click of a door closing made her aware that they were in a small side-room . |
| 19 | All subservient reaction was forgotten at once as Nessie yielded to more primitive instincts and rushed to the car to see her youngest son . |
| 20 | The Countess clapped her gloved hands . |
| 21 | Suddenly her face relaxed and a new twinkle animated her brown eyes . |
| 22 | LIZ McCOLGAN will play ‘ mind games ’ tonight in a bid to drive her main rivals for the 10,000 metres gold crazy . |
| 23 | Fonda read aloud a page of words to her and though his wife had never joined him in his LSD excursions , and marijuana made her sick , she understood from her husband 's descriptions of expanded-mind experiences and images the intensity of his feelings . |
| 24 | Feeling Rune 's eyes on her , she turned enthusiastically towards him , making no attempt to hide her ingenuous pleasure . |
| 25 | As Ulster mourns its 3,000th victim , the daughter of Britain 's first murdered soldier has her 21st birthday |
| 26 | THE Duchess of York 's desperate attempt to rehabilitate her public image involves much more than her recent glittering all-expenses-paid charity visit to Poland . |
| 27 | There was n't any time to repulse him either with words or actions as his seeking mouth found her tender lips . |
| 28 | He was still looking into her eyes and his mouth found her parted lips . |
| 29 | His mouth found her parted lips with a sudden impatient roughness , and even in her drowning state of mindless arousal she thought she detected a flicker of surprise in his eyes as he felt her shudder against him . |
| 30 | The not unfamiliar childish jape of depositing a stink bomb in her locker caused her great anguish . |