Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She swallowed hard , dragging her eyes away as she belatedly realised where her wayward thoughts were taking her . |
2 | She winced as her bad arm was stretched . |
3 | Tricia decided to temp when her youngest child started nursery full time . |
4 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
5 | A woman 's chastity is considered as her highest virtue and all Hindu traditional literature extols the greatness of a chaste woman . |
6 | Her beautician noticed when her left hand began to stay relaxed while she manicured Esther 's fingernails . |
7 | There , the terrified woman could only watch as her three friends were forced to strip in the glare of the Pathfinder 's headlights . |
8 | Surely it was what he had seen as her present stupidity that had earned her his contempt , since the past was the past , and she was still reluctant to explain anything more than the absolute minimum necessary to put an end to his increasingly unbearable taunts . |
9 | She foraged in it immediately to see if her young supporter had been able to smuggle through a twist of tobacco . |
10 | Isabel crouched against the wall , watching him as though he were in truth the wolf her imagination had conjured up , and waiting until her fluttering pulse had steadied before moving again . |
11 | Other people 's ghosts oblige with tappings and — via the medium — messages regarding insurance policies left in hat boxes on top of wardrobes , but those Rainbow might claim as her own spirit guides are — as usual — out for the evening , probably off somewhere playing a gig or eating dinner . |
12 | Paige bent down to retrieve the comb from where it had fallen , wincing as her abused flesh protested . |
13 | This is the kind of visit Diana now sees as her proper work — meeting people in need in conditions that are as simple and informal as possible . |
14 | And yet , much as she enjoyed her career and would not want to give it up permanently , she had a great desire for a strong , loving relationship and wanted to have children of her own — something she would never be able to do if her present feelings persisted . |
15 | Such was her exhaustion that she would not have cared if her traitorous purpose was emblazoned across her face for him to see . |
16 | At any other time she would have recognised the bitter note of personal experience in his voice , but all she wanted at that moment was to flee before her worst fears were realised . |
17 | Mrs Goode studied sociology and education subjects and hopes her degree will help her to obtain work in teaching when her youngest child , four-year-old James , starts school . |
18 | At their home in Ilkley , Yorkshire , Connie Bedworth fretted as her teenage son spent his days transfixed by his computer screen . |
19 | She takes as her working material clothing scavenged from thrift shops and garage sales , women 's clothes mostly from the 1950s , and combines them with various substances including hair , urine and even faeces . |
20 | A PENSIONER who said she would die if her 84 dogs were taken away yesterday pledged to fight a two-year ban on keeping animals . |
21 | Jean never questioned where her public-spirited husband was really going . |
22 | My mother hovers on the brink of life , not knowing whether her heroic struggle will be worth even a fraction of the effort she expends . |
23 | But in 1984 , tragedy struck when her 24-year-old daughter , Samantha , plunged to her death from the Clifton Suspension Bridge near Bristol . |
24 | Rune 's whole body shivered as her cool palms moved spasmodically over his heated flesh . |
25 | An elderly lady in doubtful health , she was terrified , particularly when the calls continued after her unlisted number was changed . |
26 | A BABY girl delivered after her pregnant mother was killed in a road accident was fighting for her life last night . |
27 | It was in the context of what Mr Kinnock presented as her increasing isolationism within this changing world that he pressed the charge that she was ‘ out of touch , out of date and out of step ’ . |
28 | Tiller waited until her younger sister was capable of putting over a song and dance , and then sent them off touring the country as a double act . |
29 | Rosemary waited until her three children were at school before she started studying again . |
30 | Jane dabbed a tentative finger to test whether her rouged nipples had dried . |