Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 2 | She felt his arm across her shoulders drawing her towards him . |
| 3 | With a small , helpless moan she surrendered to the muscular arms tightening like a vice about her , gazing up at his hawk-like features thrown into sharp , dramatic relief by the pale moonlight , and trembling at the dangerous gleam in the eyes devouring her from beneath their heavy lids . |
| 4 | The next step , which only the most well-off men such as restaurant owners can afford , is keeping this wife in semi-purdah — in other words sentencing her to solitary confinement . |
| 5 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
| 6 | For a long moment all she could do was stare back at him , his dark fathomless eyes holding her in thrall . |
| 7 | That Bernard had broken noses defending her to his chauvinistic schoolmates . |
| 8 | Caroline paced her bedroom , her furious steps taking her from one end of the handsome room to the other . |
| 9 | His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile . |
| 10 | She 's off , her long legs carrying her down the lane . |
| 11 | What was n't sitting well was those sapphire eyes studying her with such disturbing intensity that she felt stripped to her soul ! |
| 12 | Pete is a bony Londoner with a sallow but healthy skin and clean floppy fair hair , Ellie an attractive girl in her early twenties , her light greenish hazel almond-shaped eyes showing her to be of mixed blood . |
| 13 | From time to time , too , Jenna caught Alain 's dark eyes watching her through the driving mirror , and she was greatly relieved when they began to skirt Paris . |
| 14 | Although I did not care for her looks , the yacht-like appearance had great potential for undercover work and after about two months working her around the Solent and Poole area I was quite impressed . |
| 15 | She was aware of those sapphire-hued eyes following her from time to time , resting on her , evaluating her . |
| 16 | You have to take what you want in this world , ’ he husked , his eyes reducing her to weakness . |
| 17 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 18 | Bitter jealousy clawed at her , its sharp , painful talons filling her with an urge to scream with frustration and leaving her unable to think clearly . |
| 19 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 20 | She was barely aware of the other models joining her on the platform , followed by Rainmondo himself , something he did only for very important clients . |
| 21 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 22 | Brian Farrell , defending , said the action ‘ set the rot in ’ and as time went on she took larger sums of money , spending it on alcohol , cigarettes , clothing and bills leaving her with nothing tangible to show . |
| 23 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 24 | She remembered screaming , remembered one of the storm-troopers punching her in the face to stop her . |
| 25 | Only the reflective coating of her suit had prevented the enemy weapons identifying her as a target . |
| 26 | The nightmare had once been real and the spectres visiting her in sleep were always the same . |
| 27 | Having spent years attacking her as the author of awful policies , it is not credible to claim now that her departure hardly matters . |
| 28 | Leith , with two very large problems staring her in the face — the mortgage and Naylor Massingham , despite his action yesterday still there metaphorically breathing down her neck — thought a denial preferable to dampening her mother 's present happy frame of mind . |
| 29 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 30 | Jezrael-Ayesha laughed when they did , their feelings carrying her above herself on clouds of alcoholic freedom . |