Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 2 | He bowed over her hand , then dismissed her fears of an imminent French invasion . |
| 3 | He dismissed her thanks with a wave of the hand . |
| 4 | She was not grief-stricken the way she had been when her father died , but sorrow was a weight which kept her from opening her eyes on a world where she would sorely miss his company . |
| 5 | In turn , this is likely to produce a commitment from her to do the utmost to meet her obligations to the job . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She retained her faculties until the day she died . |
| 8 | She did not resist , but narrowed her eyes at the children . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The girl in the Chinese house-coat narrowed her eyes upon the central figure in the tableau before her , and the supple lines of her face sharpened into crystal , and lost their smiling gaiety . |
| 11 | Her mind was floating over turquoise waves and she narrowed her eyes against an ocean that sparkled silver all the way to the horizon . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Suddenly fearful she 'd attack him , he turned without picking the lamp up , only to find that the woman had already claimed her clothes from the snarl of sheets and was retreating to the bedroom door . |
| 14 | Dr Christine Henderson , the first such volunteer , had recently returned from Zimbabwe and described her experiences to the IC , providing graphic examples of the sort of problems that could encountered . |
| 15 | Following an illness , and dismayed at the prospect of remaining a home-bound spinster , she began , when already nearly forty , to travel rough in the then hardly visited Balkans , and she described her experiences in a series of vivid and forthright books . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She described her studies to the AAAS meeting . |
| 18 | One of them , Shardha Behn , described her feelings in an interview just after the strike ( Race Today , Sept 1974 ) : |
| 19 | She felt unable to marshal her thoughts into a semblance of logic . |
| 20 | Nutty paused , trying to marshal her convictions into the right words . |
| 21 | Guido climbed out and snatched her cases from the back seat . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's what I thought , ’ Dana said , mopping her eyes with a corner of the towel . |
| 23 | This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse . |
| 24 | As she dried herself , banging her elbows against the sides of the small compartment , she started to giggle . |
| 25 | Replacing the plate , she stood up and went back inside the house , banging her slippers on the step to get rid of the snow . |
| 26 | Rose ignored her , keeping her eyes on the rattling carriage , holding herself in a permanent half crouch , like a sprinter at the starting post . |
| 27 | My blaster , ’ she said , backing towards a wall and keeping her eyes on the widening gap between the doors . |
| 28 | Swallowing hard , she crawled once more under the rail and inched forward , keeping her eyes on the ground as she went . |
| 29 | She opened the door , keeping her eyes on the patch of darkness beyond the lamp . |
| 30 | She held the grip for a second or two , released it and then stroked her fingertips along the edge of the muscle . |