Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But an even greater cause for resentment is that she may feel guilty about meeting her friends or pursuing her usual weekday activities unless her partner is also busy . |
| 2 | Yesterday , as they had chatted , the model had been continually fussing with her mane of black curls , or admiring her long finger nails , or smoothing down the skirt of her grey suede suit . |
| 3 | For example , it is very important for a wife who is also a busy mother to learn to speak the local language , but she may have no time for sitting at a desk and making her own drills or doing her own analysis . |
| 4 | For the female this means cutting or tying her fallopian tubes . |
| 5 | In the starlight , her sister 's colourless face seemed itself a pale round wafer of a moon , her expression , the anxious brows rising to meet each other , mimicked the moon 's own self-dramatising look of melancholy ; Caterina felt like snapping her fingers in front of her sister 's nose , or pinching her fat ribs hard , to wake her from her indulged state , but she restrained herself , and instead , in the most solicitous accents she could muster , coaxed Rosa into telling her the matter . |
| 6 | or watching her own belly grow |
| 7 | Isabel reminded herself that he was mocking her , that his wickedly attractive smile did n't affect her one bit , and that keeping her own expression politely aloof was n't at all difficult . |
| 8 | She found that establishing her own goals based on her needs made studying that much easier and gave a purpose to the activities and assignments she was asked to do on the course . |
| 9 | ( e ) She appeared to her father to be disorientated and , according to the original evidence of Dr. F. , to be ‘ drowsy , detached and not fully compos mentis. ’ ( f ) The matrimonial history of father and mother suggests that Miss T. 's mother is a deeply committed Jehovah 's Witness , who would regard her daughter 's eternal salvation as far more important , and more in her daughter 's best interests , than lengthening her terrestrial life span . |
| 10 | Significantly , another housewife mentioned the fact that housework is not paid work as a reason for disliking it ; she said she would be happier doing someone else 's housework for pay than doing her own work . |
| 11 | WENDY Picton can go one better than blowing her own trumpet . |
| 12 | It was somehow better than making her own suppositions , which seemed to take an awful amount of energy and caused a lot of stress . |
| 13 | ‘ Hush , honey , hush , I hate it too , ’ he murmured , enfolding her in his arms and stroking her sopping hair . |
| 14 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 15 | After cooking her watery stew one night and seeing her younger daughter into bed she went to the public library and looked up ‘ Death ’ in a concordance . |
| 16 | She explored around the puckered surround of her anus , and using her middle finger , firmly stabbed the first joint into the tightly guarded entrance . |
| 17 | Every individual has to find her way of tapping and using her creative resources , whether her daily environment is a home or an office . |
| 18 | She found herself running a comb through her hair , taking a short-hand pad and three pencils instead of the two which should surely have been enough , running a handkerchief over her dusty sandals and easing her left-hand stocking round her ankle a bit to keep the ladder out of sight . |
| 19 | True to her word , Nelly Tilling called frequently at Albert Piggott 's house , and enjoyed cleaning up the place and cooking her old friend a meal . |
| 20 | Chosen her as she sat drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits and enjoying her small triumph . |
| 21 | Such a tiny little woman , I thought as I watched her , imagining her building and repairing her mental walls , her endless labour . |
| 22 | Jay lay on her bed , sipping coffee and touching her own face with the tenderness she felt for Lucy , closed her eyes with the dizzy perfection of that moment in the conservatory when they had touched , when she had touched Lucy , and Lucy had walked beside her , seen what she saw ; when her eyes had met Jay 's , dancing with the glory of it all . |
| 23 | Full of cynical amusement , she continued to stare at herself until , inspired , she started to make up her face carefully , emphasising her brown eyes with liner , and smoky eyeshadow , and dusting her high cheekbones with blusher . |
| 24 | She wrote Davies a string of X-rated letters — describing her sexual fantasies and vowing her undying love . |
| 25 | He hissed her hand , delicately , a mere whisper of the lips , stood back , looked intently at her until she was forced to smile back at him , and pressing her left hand in his unclawed fingers , swept his blemished hand across the landscape beyond them : Bassenthwaite Lake , the valley , Keswick , Derwent Water , Catbells , Newlands , an Arcadia which his gesture seemed to offer her as his gift . |
| 26 | She 'd be able to feel the dipping stones of the pavement for ever now , she could call it all up at will : the soft-gutted proprietor drinking red wine for breakfast , his distracted mother wandering from room to room in a filthy wrapper , his wife powdering away her bitter lines and painting her disappointed mouth pink for the soft light of evening . |
| 27 | Jannie cleared the plates away , catching Bob 's eye for a moment and pushing her bottom lip up in mock guilt . |
| 28 | Carrie stood shivering in the cold hall behind the half open door , wondering about Hepzibah and remembering her spell-binding voice telling that story about the old skull . |
| 29 | Instead , he took another mouthful of red wine , inspecting the rich ruby liquid through lidded , thoughtful eyes before glancing up at her and inspecting her flushed face with lazy intensity . |
| 30 | She flung herself on Wexford , yelping frenetically , and when he pushed her away , ran round him in circles , wildly gyrating her tail and flapping her knitted ears . |