Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare Wildish has come back for help feeding her second baby , 3 day old Emma . |
| 2 | Torts committed by the wife during marriage render her liable , but , since 1935 , impose no liability on her husband unless he has authorized or ratified them . |
| 3 | His eyes raked from her slender tanned legs over the V-neck of her short black dress , and on up to her flushed cheeks , and the blonde strands of hair escaping her neat bun . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're beautiful , ’ he murmured huskily , burying his hands in her cascade of hair to bring her closer still . |
| 5 | Which of course excused her sudden breathlessness when she saw him . |
| 6 | The shocked sense of recognition made her breathless ; her heart fluttered in her breast like the trembling of a captured bird . |
| 7 | She glanced at Cynthia 's face and a look of pity crossed her own . |
| 8 | Pretty , dramatic Suzie , who could twist the younger members of the male sex round her beautifully manicured fingers , would have made it a point of honour to test her feminine power over Svend . |
| 9 | Adam 's Breed and The Well of Loneliness won her international fame , albeit in very different ways . |
| 10 | Potiphar 's wife , likewise , had made an article of clothing serve her own purpose , in that case to convince her husband that Joseph had tried to seduce her . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to give you time , ’ he groaned into her hair , then , with a moan of desire to match her own , she felt him return to her , and then all the rest was heaven . |
| 12 | With the sun warm on her face , she continued to sit there , a feeling of contentment replacing her earlier distress . |
| 13 | The impulse proved at first a happy one , for in the graveyard Miss Fergusson discovered tombstones and crosses whose Celtic air recalled those of her native Ireland ; a smile of approval crossed her dutiful features . |
| 14 | The dehydrating effects of alcohol make her thirsty but instead of water , Liz drinks a tumbler of red wine . |
| 15 | ‘ She got out of trouble to win her pre-Arc race , the Prix Foy , but it would not have worried me if she was beaten then . |
| 16 | Unfortunately her determination did n't prevent a slight shiver of apprehension traversing her nervous system . |
| 17 | ‘ And that 's another thing ! ’ she rounded on him , a flush of temper staining her high cheekbones . |
| 18 | ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name . |
| 19 | It does grow less from the time her grown-up children leave the home and this crisis , which often happens quite early in life , often disturbs her very badly ; but still she does not see herself thrown into total idleness and her role of grandmother brings her fresh possibilities . |
| 20 | A twenty eight year old woman who claims an overdose of radiation left her paralysed is suing a health authority for damages . |
| 21 | The ship could carry over I , 000 tons of coal to fuel her transatlantic voyages , and accommodated more than 250 passengers . |
| 22 | A pencil-line of moustache decorated her caprine upper lip . |
| 23 | As long as she had money , she could pretend she had always been here , but the prospect of destitution tested her false history in a way which made her feel it was n't her fault . |
| 24 | Out of camera-shot lie her five other children — all rigid with hunger — and her crippled husband Ali . |
| 25 | She has recovered from a chest infection which affected her last week after two solid days of filming left her exhausted . |
| 26 | She longed to ask him , but her feeling of annoyance made her reluctant to enter into friendly conversation . |
| 27 | But social worker Jenny Barker wishes she had held out against pressure to promote her four-year-old daughter Ruth from nursery to reception . |
| 28 | Betty said nothing because , Lydia knew , Lydia 's forays into morality left her speechless . |
| 29 | He 'd been so sickly from birth and Sarah ached with sadness to see her tiny stepbrother losing hold on life . |
| 30 | She accepted the therapist 's simple interpretation that this probably in part explained her excessive need for attention and reassurance from Charles . |