Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The level at which this is pitched and the textual content naturally varies depending on the course and the contexts range widely : one day we might focus on the language of a rape victim in Panjabi ( which we roleplayed in Bedford Police Station ) , the next a simulated interview in Arabic on child abuse , and the next a Vietnamese patient explaining her persistent earache to the doctor , a symptom masking the deeper one , i.e. the trauma of being a refugee . |
| 2 | Jack took hold of her arms but she stood there limply , staring at him with her wet eyes , opening her wet mouth . |
| 3 | She felt guilty , always guilty , thinking how she should be opening her whole heart to him . |
| 4 | Cheers barmaid , Rebecca , played by Kirstie Alley may be opening her own bar across the street and taking most of the regulars with her . |
| 5 | Others believe that Mrs Aquino , by making a political decision on grounds of national security , is transgressing her own leadership principles . |
| 6 | ‘ He watched her marry and divorce twice , before becoming her third husband , three years ago . |
| 7 | She 'd be able to feel the dipping stones of the pavement for ever now , she could call it all up at will : the soft-gutted proprietor drinking red wine for breakfast , his distracted mother wandering from room to room in a filthy wrapper , his wife powdering away her bitter lines and painting her disappointed mouth pink for the soft light of evening . |
| 8 | The sun was lowering , painting her pale skin gold . |
| 9 | So did women — but more , they admired her : for being pregnant with Tyson while her first record climbed the charts ; for cradling her two-month infant through ‘ Manchild ’ ; then for celebrating all of that on ‘ Inner City Mamma ’ , a song dedicated to the strength of working mothers . |
| 10 | Once she was seated , he put his arms around her , cradling her fair head against his chest . |
| 11 | Shannon , constantly mopping her feverish forehead , is , like the giant lizard tied up and thrashing under the floorboards , at the end of his rope , and the party of Texan school teachers he is leading on a ‘ tour of God 's world ’ are incensed about his having put them up in flea-bag hotels and fallen into bed with the teenage student they have brought along . |
| 12 | But she is keeping her new man under wraps . |
| 13 | Or perhaps not , if she retained enough satisfaction in keeping her boring husband on the hook . |
| 14 | But these days Professor Naylor concentrates on treatment associated with cancer chemotherapy while she travels worldwide as a scientist , consultant and super-saleswoman keeping her maiden name . |
| 15 | Isabel reminded herself that he was mocking her , that his wickedly attractive smile did n't affect her one bit , and that keeping her own expression politely aloof was n't at all difficult . |
| 16 | Julia , accustomed for years to keeping her own counsel , listened but did not reciprocate . |
| 17 | Keeping her own identity together too . |
| 18 | Tatum , 29 , signed for the role of ex-Playboy bunny Bambi Bembenek — who killed her husband 's ex-wife -just a fortnight after she revealed she was ending her six-year marriage . |
| 19 | Enter our Sharon as book editor Carly Norris , looking for somewhere to hang her hat after ending her unhappy marriage . |
| 20 | Stung by growing criticism of the Royal Family , she has already started palace talks with her solicitors over ending her tax-free status , according to reports . |
| 21 | Margaret is at first repelled by Thornton 's harsh business ethic , but when a strike of workers turns violent , she acts impulsively to save his life , thus revealing her unconscious attraction to him , as well as her instinctive class allegiance . |
| 22 | It can be that magic moment in such dances as the Rose Adage in The Sleeping Beauty when Aurora triumphantly raises her hand from the fourth Prince 's grasp and holds the final attitude for several seconds revealing her complete command over the forces of gravity . |
| 23 | Katie Jane 's been stricken by the acting but too , floating in as a jilted bride in wig and mask before revealing her new crop and slinging on the trademark tousled Ophelia barnet . |
| 24 | She shook her hips , and the flimsy garment fell from her like a leaf from a tree , revealing her glorious nudity . |
| 25 | ‘ I can not , ’ she answered , her voice guttural , revealing her Spanish background . |
| 26 | She was delighted by the carefree lightness of her voice as hastily she began to move to the side of the bed , inwardly quaking but determined not to reveal by the merest movement her reservations to him about revealing her total nakedness by the growing light of day as it filtered through the perpendicular blinds . |
| 27 | Revealing her inmost secret , Ayesha leads Leo and Holly by a perilous mountain route to a cavern where the Fire of Immortality appears intermittently . |
| 28 | I helped her prepare for the date , pressing her nicest blouse , lending her my best necklace and polishing her shoes . |
| 29 | Appalled , she pushed back , but the movement only succeeded in pressing her lower body more closely to fitzAlan 's hard thighs . |
| 30 | He hissed her hand , delicately , a mere whisper of the lips , stood back , looked intently at her until she was forced to smile back at him , and pressing her left hand in his unclawed fingers , swept his blemished hand across the landscape beyond them : Bassenthwaite Lake , the valley , Keswick , Derwent Water , Catbells , Newlands , an Arcadia which his gesture seemed to offer her as his gift . |