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 | Christy , 34 , Sonny 's daughter from his first marriage , invited her superstar stepmum to launch her Mexican restaurant in Santa Monica , Los Angeles . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The shocked sense of recognition made her breathless ; her heart fluttered in her breast like the trembling of a captured bird . |
| 11 | Choking with revulsion , Isabel tried to fight him , but her own fear made her helpless . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Countess clapped her gloved hands . |
| 15 | Suddenly her face relaxed and a new twinkle animated her brown eyes . |
| 16 | LIZ McCOLGAN will play ‘ mind games ’ tonight in a bid to drive her main rivals for the 10,000 metres gold crazy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Feeling Rune 's eyes on her , she turned enthusiastically towards him , making no attempt to hide her ingenuous pleasure . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was n't any time to repulse him either with words or actions as his seeking mouth found her tender lips . |
| 21 | He was still looking into her eyes and his mouth found her parted lips . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The not unfamiliar childish jape of depositing a stink bomb in her locker caused her great anguish . |
| 24 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 25 | Or , alternatively , a mother encounters a persistent feeding difficulty in the baby , fails to resolve it , and as a result loses her initial equanimity and becomes tense and fearful with him ( and if that , in turn , then makes the feeding problem even worse one is left with a vicious spiral of the kind that can only be resolved by some drastic outside intervention and which clearly shows , moreover , the difficulty of disentangling cause and effect when confronted by the end result ) . |
| 26 | But a combination of embarrassment , shock , and some other nameless disturbing emotion caused her initial protest to come out as a soundless squeak . |
| 27 | She had followed the tracks of Rodomonte and Molassi through the city and into the cone shaped building , her poor physical condition blinding her archaeological curiosity . |
| 28 | WE share the concern of Mrs Heather Countley , way out at Harwood-in-Teesdale , over the 55 minutes it took an ambulance to reach her injured son . |
| 29 | His mouth explored her eager breasts and she arched up towards him , her responses instinctive , untutored , yet driving him wild with her undisguised need . |
| 30 | Goldsmith describes her true self as ‘ a plain brown wren ’ . |