Example sentences of "her hair " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was used to contrasts : Mother taking morning tea in bed with an old shawl round her shoulders and her hair pinned up under a boudoir cap , her face sticky with face cream as he kissed her good bye before school ; and Mother in full evening dress decked out in false pearls , her eyelashes beaded with mascara , dominating the stage in any play 's Last act … |
| 2 | What really made me sick was Claire , who was kneeling behind her , brushing her hair . |
| 3 | Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot . |
| 4 | The doctor 's cousin was a thin anxious woman with her hair drawn in two neat earphones . |
| 5 | Late afternoon sun spilled white shafts across the desk to light her hair with a jewelled sheen the colour of pomegranates . |
| 6 | Too young and protected to go to festivals , she grew her hair long like John Lennon and loved John Lennon after Yoko because he too wore glasses but did n't care . |
| 7 | Lucy 's hand moved through her hair and she clenched her teeth against the tantalising sensation . |
| 8 | Donald McLaggan had gone too far with Flora Stewart , swinging so wildly that the girl flung against the smaller table and fell onto it with her hair in the great bowl of broth . |
| 9 | For a moment she looked furiously at Donald , her teeth bared like a cat 's , then she shook her hair out , spattering Donald with bree and barley , and hauled him back into the dance . |
| 10 | He smelt smoke in her hair , felt her flesh soft under her shawl , and then a further quake in the crowd parted them . |
| 11 | Her hair was a blonde cloud . |
| 12 | She twisted her legs up under her , crunched a crisp , ran a hand through her hair and turned towards him . |
| 13 | Each man took time to compliment her hair , her face , her clothes , her figure ; he told her a great deal about herself . |
| 14 | She combed her hair , applied her make-up and set off for the Post Office . |
| 15 | ‘ Ah , ’ Harriet drinks delicately , the moon blanches her hair even paler , even whiter , ‘ what d' you mean by that ? ’ |
| 16 | Yes , smiles Harriet , tossing her hair , tearing down hovels and putting up Far Eastern hotels , I 'm making the world safer for my family — Bam , punch in the nose for Salim and Sharon and Michael … |
| 17 | Her neck prickles , this must be her hair going up on end . |
| 18 | There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning , she had curlers in her hair , and my father , thinking it was for him , told her not to panic . |
| 19 | We all see with one pair of eyes , Raskolnikov 's , when the visual field narrows upon the back of an old woman 's head , her hair ‘ thick with grease , twisted into a rat's-tail plait and gathered up under what was left of a broken horn comb which stuck out at the nape of her neck ’ . |
| 20 | Eliot transfers this , yet another image of terrible pain , to an almost surreal context in his poem , but the woman who draws her long black hair out tight is related to that other hysterical woman of ‘ A Game of Chess ’ , since she too is seen brushing her hair . |
| 21 | She made Maggie kneel down and lean her head over the bathtub , just as she had when Maggie had to have her hair washed as a little child . |
| 22 | She made it back to her office and sank into her chair ; but after a few minutes she sat up , combed her hair and decided to go home . |
| 23 | The tie of the white gown she had been given to wear caught in her hair and pulled it . |
| 24 | Lopsided , belonging not to herself and her inner love , but to doctors and chemotherapy and the loss of all her hair . |
| 25 | Hermione was glowing radiant in the dusk , an intense silver light , vibrantly running in the tight curls of her hair like neon , in the soft pinker palms of her hands like candlelight , in her eyes and teeth like electricity , and across all her whole skin like fluorescence . |
| 26 | Beforehand she had combed her hair by the light of the flashlamp , smoothed and rearranged her clothes but even if she had n't Moran would not have noticed this evening . |
| 27 | She surfaced from under the sheets and her father saw that her hair was wound on huge electrically heated rollers . |
| 28 | Her hair was thin and fair and long , caught back with an elastic band , and her face was thin and long too , wizened and pinched . |
| 29 | She glared at Wexford , pushing back her hair . |
| 30 | Wexford watched him feel for the girl 's hand , but she was occupied with Mrs Hatton , dabbing at her face and smoothing her hair . |