Example sentences of "[verb] her [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dressed soberly , changed her clothes less often , coiled her long dark hair into its usual long glossy package which lay so neatly upon her neck . |
| 2 | The men turned and entered her paint-peeled front door . |
| 3 | A woman drew her long black hair out tight |
| 4 | Three loose hounds were in there ; one , she was sure when she got a good look , was a bitch , Wrathful , who had impressed her that memorable day last February . |
| 5 | She did n't tell him the rest about her father and Camille , or the thoughts that had tormented her that long night . |
| 6 | He would not do her any real harm . |
| 7 | Anna coped with him all right , Giorgio never seemed to cause her any real pain ; her tirades , which used to be against the prince , were about Constanza who had ruined our lives by losing Simon . |
| 8 | There had been only one moment to cause her any undue alarm . |
| 9 | Leila told her this particular film had once won an award . |
| 10 | That at least would give her one pleasant memory to take away from this whole crazy weekend . |
| 11 | My wife began , I know not whether by design or chance , to enquire what she should do , if I should by any accident die , to which I did give her some slight answer , but shall make good use of it to bring myself to some settlement for her sake , by making a will as soon as I can . ‘ |
| 12 | There is the er the other way of looking at this that you can either change the er sort of C O balance or you can give her some clerical time , because if she can identify clerical work I mean like Diane |
| 13 | She faltered , wondering if she could speak the devastation she had felt when Rosa and Dolores had shown her that tiny baby . |
| 14 | But since we have failed to persuade her to stay single , we can only wish her well , and give her this small token of our good wishes for her future , in memory of our happy bachelor days together . |
| 15 | because he 's said well she 's go she 's they got her this little place , did n't they ? |
| 16 | Miss Ellis shook her long blonde hair back off her shoulders . |
| 17 | He poured her some black coffee . |
| 18 | Then she carefully made up her face and brushed her long auburn hair , the solemn wide-eyed child watching her every movement . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell her any damned thing you like , ’ she said on a rising note , ‘ except for the truth . |
| 20 | She pulled the door open , suddenly terrified of finding a solemn-faced policeman standing there , come to give her some terrible news . |
| 21 | I put her on the floor with a book behind her head — Bonfire of the Vanities — and said , right up with your knees ( to give her some simple breathing exercises ) . |
| 22 | So she forbore to do so altogether , even to Cedric , and as she lay in her bed that day , her arm now beginning to give her some considerable pain , she would willingly ( she knew ) have cracked two of her ribs rather than chipped a couple of her teeth . |
| 23 | ‘ Mummy , why do n't I look like Paula ? ’ she had asked , staring wretchedly at her five-year-old reflection in the mirror , but her mother , herself slightly bemused by the young beauty she had produced , had been unable to give her any satisfactory answer . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's very generous of you , ’ he told her , raising his head to give her another slow kiss . |
| 25 | She went from room to room , praising the decor , and if she noticed the paintings they did n't appear to do her any obvious mischief . |
| 26 | She had dressed in a vivid red blouse and a loose woollen blue cardigan , and she had tied her long dark hair into a pony tail with an orange scarf . |
| 27 | Daalny was shaking out and combing her long black hair in the women 's rooms , and listening to the chatter of a merchant 's widow from Wem , who had availed herself of a night 's lodging here on her way to Wenlock for her daughter 's lying-in . |
| 28 | She pulled her long dark hair from inside her flying jacket and began to walk to the outskirts of Grantley . |
| 29 | Daisy is having her long golden hair plaited by giggling young women . |
| 30 | Eliot transfers this , yet another image of terrible pain , to an almost surreal context in his poem , but the woman who draws her long black hair out tight is related to that other hysterical woman of ‘ A Game of Chess ’ , since she too is seen brushing her hair . |