Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ … and , so I will enjoy her this night before explaining her position to her in the morning . |
| 2 | Around a surrealistic voice sampled from some US TV slot ( where a female patient is explaining her habit of grinding her teeth down to stumps in her sleep ) and a garbled vocal , Therapy ? build up a wall of solid playing that only they can eventually tear down . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid what he has to say will cause considerable distress , ’ she said , after explaining her reason for telephoning . |
| 4 | Ms Siobhan Fahey ( see below ) has been explaining her emigration to the south of France . |
| 5 | There was of course Ferdinando , but she hesitated over opening her heart to her husband , who would in any case need her letter read to him and would be unable to answer of his own accord . |
| 6 | Contrary to Cissie 's opinion , she herself was glad that David had stopped her from opening her heart to this impressionable young girl . |
| 7 | In the main , it was a time of misery which unknowingly strengthened her character and at the same time introduced her to a friendship which resulted in her opening her eyes to another way of life , a life that she recognised and knew she could fit into ; for it was during the first summer holiday that she was invited to spend a day with Annabel at her home . |
| 8 | She was not grief-stricken the way she had been when her father died , but sorrow was a weight which kept her from opening her eyes on a world where she would sorely miss his company . |
| 9 | When she hears what I have to say to her , there will be no question of her opening her lips on this subject . |
| 10 | She pressed closely against him , winding her arms round his neck and opening her mouth in welcome , giving herself up to the desire that flooded through her . |
| 11 | ‘ ( 1 ) Whether or not the Director of the Serious Fraud Office , in employing her powers under section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 in relation to a person under investigation who has been charged with an offence , is obliged by any principle of law , before asking any question or seeking any information in relation to that offence , to inform that person that he is not obliged to answer such questions , or provide such information , and , if so , by what principle of law . |
| 12 | Money was now plentiful in her home , thanks to Michael 's employing her brothers in his business , while the majority of the people in Lancaster Road wore still no better off than they had been before the war . |
| 13 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 14 | She then picks up a stone in her jaws and , vibrating her head at high speed , bangs down the soil . |
| 15 | She found herself hurrying unnecessarily , weaving her way through the groups of people that drifted along the narrow paths , side-stepping the large and opulent prams that were moored to benches where smug mothers sat knitting and staring , dodging the children who chased each other in and out of the grown-ups ' legs . |
| 16 | Fran hurried across the street , weaving her way between the busy traffic towards the underground car park favoured by the staff at the radio station . |
| 17 | Robyn pushed through the stuffy , claustrophobic room , weaving her way with difficulty through the couples who always seem to be dancing , always clinging together . |
| 18 | ‘ This is different , ’ Lindsey laughingly dismissed his protest , weaving her way with almost childlike excitement between rows of fruit and vegetables and racks of brightly coloured sundresses , sandals and locally made lace . |
| 19 | Sapphire is murdered after consummating her relationship with a White student ; in A Taste of Honey , Jimmy is despatched once he has had sexual relations with Jo , never to be seen again ; in Flame in the Streets Gaby Gomez is badly burned ; in the same film Peter Lincoln manages to escape ‘ punishment ’ , other than a humiliating first encounter with his White fiancèe 's father , Jacko , but then the progression of the narrative is frozen before closure . |
| 20 | During the period that Walker was picturing her women like this , constricting female fashion was changing ; corsets were abandoned , hair was shorn and eventually even trousers became acceptable . |
| 21 | Sitting up painting her nails at midnight , in bed . |
| 22 | ( She told a gathering of women in a Mayfair hairdressers that Andrew loved fooling around — with her feet — and insisted on painting her toenails at all times . |
| 23 | And she had to go out , but no Bernard now you forgot this bit here , she was , er house , the decorators were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning ! |
| 24 | They were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning right , and Margot |
| 25 | Inside her a thought was crystallizing , painting her treachery in bluelight on the shining glass of the viewport : I ca n't do this . |
| 26 | Lucenzo was beside her in an instant , his hands cradling her face with the tenderness of a lover . |
| 27 | Wynne-Jones ignored her worried look and continued to touch her , cradling her face in his hands and touching her lips with his fingers . |
| 28 | Back in the dressing-room she slumped into a chair , spent with exhaustion , cradling her face in her hands as she propped her elbows on the table . |
| 29 | Although speakers stressed the importance of welcoming Quebec into a reformed federal structure , the party failed to address detailed constitutional change , and one of the party 's Quebec MPs denounced the resolution as a cosmetic exercise , announcing her resignation from the PCP . |
| 30 | They had lit upon Sarah Ferguson instead , who was hotly tipped to be announcing her engagement to Prince Andrew any day , and her appearance in Klosters was their dream come true . |