Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [adj] [noun] " 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 | Even if fitzAlan had not been involved , Isabel knew she would have to find another way to save her brother , because she could not deceive the anxious , sweet-faced lady who was gently explaining her new duties . |
| 3 | ‘ Me ? ’ said Lesley , opening her wide eyes even wider in amused surprise . |
| 4 | Jack took hold of her arms but she stood there limply , staring at him with her wet eyes , opening her wet mouth . |
| 5 | She felt guilty , always guilty , thinking how she should be opening her whole heart to him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The sun was lowering , painting her pale skin gold . |
| 8 | We fitted our seat belts this February and then concentrated on painting her flying surfaces — the paint-spraying booth at Malcolm 's place of work helped a great deal ! |
| 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 | And she lay beside him , her limbs intertwined with his , his furry legs lacing her smooth ones , their matted wetness mingling , and he was murmuring , ‘ My sweet one , my darling , Cati . ’ |
| 13 | She ground her teeth with the effort of keeping her strained lungs in check , using all four limbs for propulsion through water which echoed hollowly with the slap of bullets seeking her . |
| 14 | She was here to do a job , and doing her job properly entailed keeping her personal feelings strictly under control . |
| 15 | But she is keeping her new man under wraps . |
| 16 | Or perhaps not , if she retained enough satisfaction in keeping her boring husband on the hook . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she told these heads , keeping her red eyes turned away from them , ‘ Mr. Dyson and Mr. Bell are at the funeral . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Enter our Sharon as book editor Carly Norris , looking for somewhere to hang her hat after ending her unhappy marriage . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Yet Martha was a woman of courage , and she succeeded nobly in satisfying her hungry lodgers with wholesome fare , and spreading for them sheets a prince might fold around him ; and though the body was often weak , the spirit was lively , and soon found a way whereby to mount with ease over any difficulty that might arise in the government of her household or the entertainment of her hospices . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When it came to revealing her personal likes and dislikes , Joanne was not a girl of many words . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She shook her hips , and the flimsy garment fell from her like a leaf from a tree , revealing her glorious nudity . |
| 28 | ‘ I can not , ’ she answered , her voice guttural , revealing her Spanish background . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Whatever her beginnings in life , she could now carry herself in the most élite company without the slightest fear of revealing her true origins . |