Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likelihood of Britain having to meet her obligations in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula increased in step with the raucousness of Radio Cairo 's ‘ The Voice of the Arabs ’ , adjuring all true followers of Islam to oust every vestige of European colonialism from their lands . |
| 2 | He had said he might be late , after all , and she decided to snatch a few more moments of privacy to recharge her batteries in the one place in the whole luxurious house where she was able to relax and feel she was her own person . |
| 3 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 4 | She moved her toes in the orange dust at the edge of the road . |
| 5 | The difference was that when constructing a plot she was able to invent clues that would subtly direct her readers in the direction of the guilty person while strewing their path with red herrings . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't laughed so much since Grandma caught her tits in the mangle , ’ was the verdict of them all . |
| 7 | Streamlined jockey Michael Roberts gave Lyric Fantasy the chance to find her feet in the early stages , but a sudden surge of speed at the furlong marker clinched the money . |
| 8 | Sylvia had enjoyed her months in the States , but was glad to be going home . |
| 9 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 10 | By early habit she was a countrywoman , she could orientate herself by barely visible bulks and air currents and scents in the night , and she was not afraid to trust her feet in the irregularities of an unknown path . |
| 11 | Running downstairs we found that my eldest sister , Gertrude , who had been helping Mum , had caught her fingers in the rollers . |
| 12 | Kelly hooked her thumbs in the tops of her pants . |
| 13 | He had heard her cries in the night . |
| 14 | Madame Gebrec flung her arms in the air . |
| 15 | Individualism was well established as one of the cardinal virtues of Western civilization when Japan reopened her doors in the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | I would have loved to have stayed in her Boathouse despite the eight inch snail with head and horns buried in a roll of butter in the larder in the morning and his relatives ‘ who had a provoking way of paying nocturnal visits , and wandered between the wooden walls and the loosely fixed paper that decked the walls … ’ ; the family of mice and the ‘ sagacious hen ’ that laid her eggs in the corner of the hole in the wall designated as a cupboard . |
| 17 | In George Henry Lee 's restaurant a middle-aged lady wearing purple and accompanied by a string quartet sang ‘ Tea for Two ’ , circling her hands in the air as though pushing away cobwebs . |
| 18 | If she were her normal self she would be pottering happily around Simone , laughing whenever she got in her way and sticking her fingers in the food . |
| 19 | For the lady — accompanied by red admirals , peacocks and common blues — was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre . |
| 20 | Jane was no great cook , and did n't even enjoy it , but she had brought up a family of four , so quickly got her bearings in the kitchen , which was off the main circular room . |
| 21 | She dropped her hand and looked enquiringly around flapping her arms in the air . |
| 22 | Her stomach twisted as in that moment she seemed to feel him pierce her loins in the act of impregnation . |
| 23 | When he moved lower , she tangled her fingers in the thick blackness of his hair , shivering as his mouth moved to the intimate core of her sexuality , parting the curled Titian triangle with his tongue . |
| 24 | The volatile combination of passion and laughter was so overwhelming that Virginia shut her eyes and tangled her fingers in the ruffled dark hair and began to drown in the exquisite taste and texture and sensation of kissing Guy and being kissed back very comprehensively in return . |
| 25 | He flinched as Sweetheart lifted her hands in the air and let them fall back into her lap with a sigh of exasperation . |
| 26 | ‘ I lived a year without you , ’ she snapped back , swishing her feet in the water . |
| 27 | Kelly could see her clothes in the corner across the room , but she needed to get to them without being jumped by this barrel of lard . |
| 28 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 29 | Margaret Thatcher , for example , would remember her lessons in the grocery shop at her father 's knee and conclude that developing countries were foolish and irresponsible to live beyond their means and borrow so much money . |
| 30 | She can lie on her back like an inverted cockroach while waggling her legs in the air . |