Example sentences of "[vb past] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Like when a woman slowly unbuttoned her yellow clothes , let them fall down around her waist .
2 He placed the glass on the bedside table , leaned over her and unbuttoned her weary-looking ankle-boot .
3 While acknowledging that Sarah seemed to be infatuated with George , her sister was so many years her junior that she still thought of her as a child and dismissed her obvious affection for George as innocent admiration .
4 Succeeding , she rotated the garment , levered her formidable breasts into the cups and thrust her arms through the shoulderstraps .
5 Ajayi was in the games room still , hunkered over the small table in her furs , huge as a bear , perched on a small stool all but hidden beneath the furs and cloths which smothered her old frame .
6 THE chances of British entry into the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System before the next election were significantly reduced at the Strasbourg summit , as the Prime Minister maintained her hard-line opposition .
7 THE chances of British entry into the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System before the next election were significantly reduced at the Strasbourg summit , as the Prime Minister maintained her hard-line opposition .
8 Intrepidity maintained her unbeaten record in clear-cut fashion , striking the front a furlong out under Thierry Jarnet and comfortably holding Dancienne by a length .
9 Another with cause for celebration was ‘ Morning All ’ , the S&S 34 sailed for Haven Ports YC by Mr & Mrs Dave Hunkin , who has already had two overall wins this season , and maintained her unbroken run in Class Three with two more first places .
10 It seemed that with every exchange the man was growing more confident , and the girl , for all she maintained her fiery calm , a little more pressed and on the defensive .
11 For a long time she maintained her maiden name until it became a public and political necessity to adopt the surname Clinton .
12 Art recoils , growing steadily smaller , tetchier and more tentative , shrinking like a 20th-century Alice , except that , where she retained her imperial dignity unimpaired , he regresses to a tearful fractious child dwarfed by the conflicting pressures of a fragmented adult world .
13 She still retained her English habit of noting each day 's weather , always expecting changes , marvelling at the hot sunny days which followed one after the other , almost with monotony .
14 This is well-illustrated by the plentiful funerary monuments of hellenistic Boiotia , which retain features , such as the simple naming of the dead man without patronymic , which in other parts of the Greek world had long given way to more sophisticated formulae ; and Boiotia retained her local script till the age of Epaminondas in the fourth century .
15 She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it .
16 Debbie Pratt retained her British women 's downhill title , with Emma Carrick-Anderson taking third place 0.87sec behind the winner .
17 Dorothy George , after describing the " roastbeef " of old England , retained her rose-coloured spectacles as she went on to an extraordinarily generous view of the Poor Law .
18 His hands did n't roam , did n't take liberties that she might not have wanted him to take ; only his head moved , his mouth , as he kissed her first one way , then another ; drew her lower lip , infinitely gently , between his ; sampled the top lip , her tongue ; moved languidly to approach from another direction .
19 She drew her right hand out from the folds of her apron and thrust a piece of paper at him , averting her eyes as she did so .
20 The girls grin did not alter at all as she drew her right hand from her sleeve , holding a large , ancient , projectile-firing pistol , and blew off a large bit of the creature 's head .
21 He helped her to feet , and drew her free arm through his .
22 She turned her face to the fire , gripped her hands upon her elbows , and drew her thin shoulders together in a shrug .
23 His reflection drew her wary eyes to his .
24 The Lady Prioress drew her imperious brows together .
25 Each girl drew her own picture in her own section of the paper .
26 He held her face cupped and cradled in his great hand , hard against his cheek , and the beat of his blood passed into her veins and drew her own blood into the same passionate measure .
27 I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago .
28 She narrowed her blue eyes at him .
29 Little wonder then that during the build-up to her wedding she invited her former teacher Wendy Mitchell and pianist Lily Snipp to Buckingham Palace so that she could have dancing lessons .
30 Sam invited her best friend down for Christmas .
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