Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the frustrated libido seeking spiritual orgasm … if I could have copulated with Clare , or merely stroked her breasts a bit … ’ |
| 2 | Standing before her future mistress , Millie did not know whether or not to dip her knee . |
| 3 | In the same vein , Mrs Gaskell commends the order and arrangement of Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling in Mary Barton , the check curtain at the modest bedhead , the ‘ little bit of crockery-ware … ranged on the mantelpiece , where also stood her candlestick and box of matches ’ . |
| 4 | I agree that it would if I constantly compared her with my current partner , or wistfully mentioned her name from time to time . |
| 5 | She was much too weary to eat or even to open her post ; she would do that later . |
| 6 | Maria could n't move her head or even lower her eyes , and time had slipped . |
| 7 | She could feel her mother 's presence behind her but she refused to turn round or even to raise her head . |
| 8 | I 'd caught him once or twice patting her bottom which the silly girl probably took as evidence of her superior attractions , whereas I knew he did it to every woman under forty . |
| 9 | She must have had a posting , or else obtained her demob while I was still at Binbrook , because I have a distinct memory of Sheila hammering nails into this crate before despatching it to her new destination , and scornfully refusing all help from J. , who was standing by with the hammer and nails . |
| 10 | ‘ I know what I said — that was pride talking , ’ he explained with a wry grin that successfully squashed her temper . |
| 11 | It was a burning , raking scrutiny , designed to make her aware of his pulsing desire to slake his sexual hunger with her that only needed her nod to unleash itself . |
| 12 | Strangely enough it was a tiny thing that suddenly gave her confidence again — her hair . |
| 13 | My own child 's first ‘ word ’ was ‘ doidledoidledaddy ’ , a fact that rightly infuriated her mother . |
| 14 | With a sort of sick excitement inside , she washed , and dressed in a soft blue wool dress that just reached her boot tops . |
| 15 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 16 | It was this that finally scuppered her opponent . |
| 17 | As a small child , sick with temper when she was forced to do something against her will or even when she was strapped too tightly into a bed , she had risen to heights of defiance that genuinely alarmed her family . |
| 18 | She supposed what she felt was partly the deadness that always followed her magic , but this time there was more . |
| 19 | Despite the misery that still numbed her emotions , Folly felt a trace of her former enthusiasm as she outlined the scheme , suitably cut down to take account of her lack of capital . |
| 20 | A doctor said : ‘ She immediately squeezed the poison out and that probably saved her life . ’ |
| 21 | She looked down at the white plastic loop that now bound her wrist to the brass rail on the table . |
| 22 | The old stone felt cold beneath her fingertips , but it was the glance sweeping over her from out of those black eyes that really froze her senses . |
| 23 | That in itself is traumatic enough but — ’ she swallowed ‘ — it was losing you that really broke her heart . |
| 24 | Having rewound the crêpe bandage , after a fashion , she brushed her hair until it was dry and gleaming like dark spun silk , before donning a sunshine-yellow dress that perfectly matched her mood . |
| 25 | She was still tall and slim , her gold hair was styled into soft waves that perfectly framed her face , and her clothes were immaculate . |
| 26 | To this end she never wasted a word or gesture and when she saw Wexford she neither greeted him nor even lifted her head , but said to one of her little girls : |
| 27 | Some may find troublesome the beat that sometimes afflicts her tone . |
| 28 | There was the man Jinny had seen before , with the cold blue eyes that almost made her shudder as she met them again , and there was a boy . |
| 29 | It was n't just the overwhelming sense of power that seemed to emanate from him as he stood there , it was something in the startlingly blue eyes which raked her slender figure and delicate features with an intensity that almost took her breath away . |
| 30 | Her response was a sudden flush of heat and a clutch of desire that abruptly tightened her stomach muscles . |