Example sentences of "[vb past] her [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He placed the glass on the bedside table , leaned over her and unbuttoned her weary-looking ankle-boot . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For a long time she maintained her maiden name until it became a public and political necessity to adopt the surname Clinton . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He helped her to feet , and drew her free arm through his . |
| 18 | Each girl drew her own picture in her own section of the paper . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Sam invited her best friend down for Christmas . |
| 23 | Charity 's was utterly relaxed and quite level as she posed her next question . |
| 24 | It was here that Mrs Curdle heated her great flat-iron , propping it up on its back with the ironing surface pressed to the glowing red bars . |
| 25 | Reddening with a flush that heated her whole body , she grabbed her wash-bag and night things , and fled for the bathroom , locking the door to the sound of his low , mocking laugh . |
| 26 | Sue , who is well known for her contribution in Fuel Division , particularly in the field of Water Reactor and AGR fuel , and intermediate products such as UO2 powder and pellets , described her new post as a considerable challenge . |
| 27 | She described her first heartbreak meeting with a woman dying of AIDS , her body , racked by infections , visibly wasting away . |
| 28 | Lynda Williams , a conservationist from North Wales , described her final view of the whales : ‘ It was just so poetic . |
| 29 | In her last public statement , issued through a publicity agent , Mrs Helmsley described her final evening at home as ‘ lying in bed , cuddling and necking ’ with her husband , Mr Harry Helmsley , 83 , the property magnate who owns the Empire State Building and who was also charged with tax evasion before being deemed too frail to stand trial . |
| 30 | The article described her current routine of constant travelling , discussions with designers flying over to see her , and her concern to exercise more and lose weight . |