Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her words were ringing in her ears as she eventually made her way through Customs . |
| 2 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 3 | With a heavy sigh , and not even daring to look at her slim , almost naked form in the mirror , Laura slowly made her way out of the cottage , and down towards the ocean . |
| 4 | Peggy Ashcroft duly got her gong for playing Lilian , 50 years in the bin , but She 's Been Away was considerably more than a kind of Rain Woman ; a vehicle for acting technique . |
| 5 | With an expression on his face that suggested he could not fight any longer , David pulled her towards him and slowly stroked her head and back . |
| 6 | She eventually found her way to the social services department . |
| 7 | She stood , arms extended but bent , and slowly moved her head from side to side . |
| 8 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 9 | Looking Nicolo in the eye only made her knees feel as if they were going to buckle . |
| 10 | As soon as all these lighting restrictions came in , Daddy said he was n't going to stay in England and they pissed off , ’ Felicity 's lapses into strong language , which were meant to make her sound cool , only made her sound immature . |
| 11 | All the pre-packaged nonsense of a plastic person , she said once , but that only made her husband angry . |
| 12 | Ellie suddenly asked her companion . |
| 13 | The noise from below battered her eardrums until it felt as if a high-speed train was roaring through her head . |
| 14 | But despite her preoccuption with everything else , something about the man sitting opposite made her resolutions waver . |
| 15 | Poor Charlotte , Ruth thought , to be married , yet not able to take pleasure in her pregnancy — though she perhaps misjudged her mother-in-law a little . |
| 16 | She arched her back , and realised that doing so made her butt stuck out even further . |
| 17 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 18 | She intentially overstayed her visit and in six months time was doing ‘ day 's work ’ in people 's homes . |
| 19 | She felt for a tissue to wipe tears that were falling uncontrollably , and , seeing her need , he took a large handkerchief from his pocket and , turning her face to his , he very gently wiped her eyes . |
| 20 | The simple garment only skimmed her thighs , the soft clingy material was almost flesh-coloured and on the front the designer had added — in black — the imprint of two hands . |
| 21 | Even as she was considering how to get herself free , a movement below caught her eye . |
| 22 | But a week later the Texas supreme court greatly complicated her task by unanimously declaring Texas 's new law on school finance , laboriously agreed upon after four special sessions , to be unconstitutional . |
| 23 | Melissa took the girl in her arms and gently stroked her head until she became calmer . |
| 24 | He gently stroked her cheek with his finger . |
| 25 | However , by patient wheedling and soft talk I managed to touch her and gently stroked her cheek with one finger . |
| 26 | With the fingers of his free hand he gently stroked her cheek . |
| 27 | Then he gently stroked her stomach in a circular motion , luxuriating in the feel of her pubic hair brushing the edge of his hand . |
| 28 | He not only found her annoying ; he found her entirely and mysteriously offensive . ’ |
| 29 | But it was the frustrated libido seeking spiritual orgasm … if I could have copulated with Clare , or merely stroked her breasts a bit … ’ |
| 30 | Guido too obviously found her motives suspect . |