Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To meet her couturier at the Hilton . |
| 2 | She did not resist , but narrowed her eyes at the children . |
| 3 | It was still early , as she could tell from the light filtering through her curtains , and she narrowed her eyes at the sight of a cross Dana , who was obviously prepared to shake her again . |
| 4 | Taking to Water ( July ) , in which Jeannette Kupfermann described her stay at a thalassotherapy centre , had a huge response . |
| 5 | But luck had come her way at the very last moment . |
| 6 | She jerked her head at the boy and he went over and turned the knob . |
| 7 | She jerked her chin at the box of letters . |
| 8 | Merlyn demanded to know why he had not reported her departure at the time . |
| 9 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
| 10 | Your mam 's so good with them — she 'll make sure Danny does n't get into mischief and see that Lilian has her bottle at the right time . ’ |
| 11 | Newton Aycliffe 's Christine Brunskill also avenged her defeat at the hands of Middlesbrpugh and Cleveland Harrier Marie Stansmore . |
| 12 | ‘ THEY keep on writing you off — but they 're wrong , ’ beamed a delighted Roy Inman , the women 's team manager , as Ann Hughes , Britain 's top lightweight , stepped off the mat having won her semi-final at the World Championships here yesterday . |
| 13 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 14 | Then the Houston Post reported that Kay Bailey Hutchison , the favoured Republican candidate , had occasionally slapped and pinched her employees at the state treasurer 's office . |
| 15 | Fran forced herself to sound cool and friendly , to betray no hint of the fear twisting her heart at the thought of what she might discover . |
| 16 | Looking back on that moment now , she felt it tremble before her , round and perfect as an overfull drip , and she caught her breath at the thought of its transitoriness , its shimmering beauty , and suddenly whispered to herself , ‘ I am happy , ’ as if she feared it might not last forever . |
| 17 | Then she caught her breath at the evidence of his arousal , but he stayed so still that , fascinated , she touched him , and felt the jerk of his response as she stroked and encircled his warm , hard flesh in an investigation that was both shy and bold . |
| 18 | He kept rubbing his cheek against mine , and so I was thankful when his mother stopped her trolley at the back of a bright red Mercedes . |
| 19 | Changed , he returned into the lounge to find her standing at the window again , as if watching for the assassin 's return . |
| 20 | The 27-year-old mother 's ordeal began when the kidnapper jumped out at her after she had parked her car at the top of a multi-storey at a shopping centre in Eastleigh , Hants . |
| 21 | It had been forty-five minutes earlier when Dr Barbara Moule had parked her Fiesta at the Chesterton Hotel , finding John Ashenden waiting for her a little anxiously . |
| 22 | Maggie was stabbing her finger at the different plates on the table , and her aunt wagged her head and pursed her lips before she said , flatly , ‘ I 'm courting one of the airmen ; he comes to Donald 's farm . ’ |
| 23 | She found her husband at the foot of the bed cropuching over a wooden box into which the pipe had been inserted . |
| 24 | The maid had retired , tossing her head at the thought of such low people as them gyppos having the sauce to interrupt the master at his supper . |
| 25 | ‘ Araminta wanted me to clear up first , ’ Theda answered , trying to still the flutter that had attacked her pulses at the touch of his hand on her arm . |
| 26 | Dawn Allenby presented Richard St Ives with an oil-painting of a bull in a tortoise-shell frame which had caught her eye at the back of a butcher 's stall in St John 's Market . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 28 | I have this from her own mouth , for I visited her house at the Falster ferry , at a time when her husband was arrested for a crime . ’ |
| 29 | It is obvious that Alison has not recovered in any sense , and is just managing to keep out of hospital by maintaining her weight at a low but not life-threatening level . |
| 30 | Elek also approached Edie Lamont after seeing her work at the London Group and discussed the idea for an illustrated book on Wales . |