Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Me ? ’ said Lesley , opening her wide eyes even wider in amused surprise . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | One nanny was sacked on the spot when Diana 's mother discovered that her employee was lacing her elder daughters ' food with laxatives as a punishment . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was here to do a job , and doing her job properly entailed keeping her personal feelings strictly under control . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she told these heads , keeping her red eyes turned away from them , ‘ Mr. Dyson and Mr. Bell are at the funeral . |
| 9 | Marginally more in control , she sauntered back through to the kitchen and handed him the brush , carefully keeping her own fingers clear of his . |
| 10 | She had difficulty in keeping her own tears back when Cara asked brokenly , ‘ Could n't you do this one thing for me ? |
| 11 | She wrote a highly perceptive appreciation of Burns 's character in the Dumfries Journal ( August 1796 ) and collaborated energetically with Burns 's biographer , James Currie — thereby also effectively protecting her own interests and reputation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When it came to revealing her personal likes and dislikes , Joanne was not a girl of many words . |
| 14 | Whatever her beginnings in life , she could now carry herself in the most élite company without the slightest fear of revealing her true origins . |
| 15 | It would take all the poise she possessed to spend the evening with Fen , on their new footing as ‘ friends ’ , without revealing her true feelings for him . |
| 16 | It was true , she had learned important facts from Miss Rose , although Mrs Maybury had only helped by revealing her own anxieties . |
| 17 | She took a deep breath , bracing herself to put it into words , risk the ridicule and embarrassment of revealing her growing fears . |
| 18 | Every so often the light wind teased it away from her ears , revealing her favourite earrings as they swung against its soft darkness . |
| 19 | The last time they had met at Oulton Park he had unthinkingly humiliated her , wounding her immature feelings , and the pain had been intense . |
| 20 | Full of cynical amusement , she continued to stare at herself until , inspired , she started to make up her face carefully , emphasising her brown eyes with liner , and smoky eyeshadow , and dusting her high cheekbones with blusher . |
| 21 | She pinched her cheeks quickly to add a little colour , and straightened the skirt of her plum-coloured sweater-dress before squaring her slim shoulders and resuming her descent . |
| 22 | He turned and lunged at her , stabbing her three times , the last thrust piercing her heart . |
| 23 | Even now , with the sports car scorching along the expressway , and the breeze cooling her flushed cheeks , Laura still felt almost sick with embarrassment . |
| 24 | She leaned on an elbow and stirred her coffee , an absent expression softening her sharp features . |
| 25 | Maria paused in the doorway , surveying her new colleagues and their partners , a handful of them local people but mainly men and women from all over the English-speaking world , because radio people had a gypsy tendency to move on every few years . |
| 26 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
| 27 | The Russian , who has confirmed herself this year as one of the world 's greatest athletes by setting four world records , is said to have tested positive at a meeting in Lievin , France , last month after equalling her 60 metres hurdles world record . |
| 28 | If the process of nursing is seen as a problem-solving activity in which the nurse acts on her own initiative generating her own solutions , rather than one in which she repeats ready-made solutions ; and if the reasoning of the cognition theorists is accepted as valid ; then the teaching of nursing should be organised in such a way that the student not only acquires the necessary knowledge and skills , but does so in such a way that they develop in her flexible cognitive structures . |
| 29 | It did n't help that , intellectually , I knew that she was reliving her own feelings about the way in which a second child — me — had wrecked her marriage . |
| 30 | Shrugging her superb shoulders , Comfort sat down and waited for his explanation . |