Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three floors up , on the top floor of the large house , Sally Headleand sat on her bedroom floor painting her toe-nails a pale silvery green and listening to her stepbrother Alan trying to explain about inflation and unemployment and monetarism and the economic implications of the new rhetoric praising the Victorian values of family life . |
| 2 | If Heini 's wife , Tita , a former Miss Spain , has her way the final home of the picture will be Madrid . |
| 3 | But she had lifted her skirts a full six inches above the ground as she entered the water , and he was captivated . |
| 4 | On their first date she had shown Preston , with nonchalant pride , the scars where she had slashed her wrists a few days after her nineteenth birthday . |
| 5 | Her flippancy helped her distance the odd reality of the blue that wove through her vision . |
| 6 | The deep voice behind her made her jump and , turning quickly , she met the smiling face of the man who had attracted her attention a short while back . |
| 7 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 8 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 9 | " To-morrow I 've promised to take Lizzie to see her niece the other side of Bridgeborough , " Sara said quickly , glad of the genuine excuse . |
| 10 | Hari knew it was mostly done to help Craig and yet Edward Morris seemed to like her work a great deal . |
| 11 | Alida made her sound a different woman , some pale , sweetly-smiling , malleable soul . |
| 12 | And before Fen could answer her question a dark bulk moved out of the shadows into their path . |
| 13 | The fewer people who knew where she got her information the better . |
| 14 | The fresh air and exercise had given her skin a radiant bloom that did n't need enhancement . |
| 15 | She told her parents the next day . |
| 16 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 17 | Laura twisted her heel a second time . |
| 18 | She learnt her lesson the hard way . |
| 19 | But first , she would give her father a final chance . |
| 20 | The sharpness of her observations on numerous aspects of contemporary life has made her journal a prime source for social and economic historians , ranking with that of Daniel Defoe [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | Isabel lifted her chin , pride and defiance turning her eyes a stormy grey as she stared back at fitzAlan coldly . |
| 22 | The next time the girl opened her eyes the young officer was staring straight into them , his face strained and anxious . |
| 23 | Léonie tried , but each time she opened her mouth an invisible hand blocked it and shut her up . |
| 24 | ‘ Yell if this is really painful , ’ he said , and slowly turned her foot the other way . |
| 25 | That 's what Ann said ooh if we ever owe her rent the dear old soul will say oh well next week 'll do |
| 26 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 27 | Kirsty do n't like her dummy no more now ! |
| 28 | No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all . |
| 29 | An Oxford painter 's wife paid her mother a half crown a week for coming to help on washday : ‘ a little bit of pin money … |
| 30 | She threw her sister an apprehensive glance but was reassured to see she was smiling . |