Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hanging on to her temper , and , it had to be admitted , her rioting feelings , with an effort , she retorted , ‘ To someone like you , perhaps . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 3 | They glanced at Tabitha encumbered with Perks , forcing their claws from her arms , standing on one foot trying to shake one that was hanging on to her leg . |
| 4 | Sister explained to me , ‘ The poor old dear 's in a fine twitter as she thought the bus was stopping , not starting — ’ Sister shot off to meet an anxious young woman with a baby in her arms and a small tearful boy hanging on to her skirt . |
| 5 | Climbing on to her back , he used the halter shank to whip her into a lumbering unaccustomed trot , as he made his way back to the stable-yard . |
| 6 | She was desperate to move now , physical awareness returning suddenly to her body and making her realise that she was numb in her left leg and stiff everywhere else . |
| 7 | Walking along to her room , she quietly closed the door . |
| 8 | He stood and picked up the small bowl he had brought , walking through to her bathroom to empty it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going away , ’ Robyn replied , walking through to her bedroom . |
| 10 | The dreaded , wonderful thrill came back , starting at the base of Merrill 's spine and quivering up to her throat . |
| 11 | The slightly fatherly attendant said he was sure she was safely asleep , as he 'd seen her returning from the washroom at the end of the car and climbing up to her bunk . |
| 12 | Miss Julie Stott , 27 , from Eccles , Manchester , was walking back to her hotel with a friend , Mr Peter Ellis , 27 , when a man attacked them from a passing car . |
| 13 | Kirsty Lowe was walking back to her house at Newhnam on severn when she lost grip of her daughter 's pushchair in the floodwater . |
| 14 | Obviously he was not going to speak and Jenna was embarrassed at being caught here , more embarrassed still at the idea of walking haughtily to her room without a word . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you really want to go into that now ? ’ he challenged her softly , his ironic gaze returning briefly to her party face and the shiny , streaky curls that tumbled over her brow and about her neck , just skimming her bare shoulders . |
| 16 | A warm stream of urine was soon gushing down upon the naked flesh of her full white bubbies — splashing on to her stomach , and into the hollow of her throat . |
| 17 | My poison-tongued mermaid is certainly living up to her name ! ’ |
| 18 | Living up to her reputation , Peters found that she had done her homework thoroughly . |
| 19 | On a stormy night at the beginning of May he watched by the bedside of his brother-in-law , Robert Lovell , as he lay dying from a putrid fever , and tried to comfort Lovell 's young wife Mary , who was listening frantically to her husband 's ‘ loud , deep , unintermitted groans ’ during his final hours . |
| 20 | She found herself searching back to her youth for reasons to explain the blind and selfish obsessions which had taken hold of her since they arrived in the French tropics and she wondered if her father 's ruin and death by his own hand in the Louisiana cotton slump of 1989 , when she was only two years old , was the root cause . |
| 21 | Marjorie was looking forward to her freedom ; no need to be up at seven o'clock to go to work , no rushing back to make the tea . |
| 22 | Alyssia ended up looking forward to her lunch with André far more eagerly than she had originally thought possible . |
| 23 | The nurse ( just twenty-two and looking forward to her holiday in Greece ) checked my hand for bits of glass and then applied an impression splint . |
| 24 | Despite a minority of hecklers in the crowd , Toni Childs was well appreciated by the audience who I 'm sure are looking forward to her return . |
| 25 | She was n't looking forward to her turn . |
| 26 | His wife Val contributes a postscript in which she reveals , rather wanly , that she is still looking forward to her honeymoon , postponed because of a rugby match . |
| 27 | It was quite clear they had no real feeling for their mother , and were almost looking forward to her death . |
| 28 | The neatly-written two-page letter ends with Elvis again saying how much he was looking forward to her visit . |
| 29 | My colleagues and I in Wales Link were greatly looking forward to her visit , planned over a period of 18 months . |
| 30 | ‘ I have been looking forward to her visit for weeks and was very excited when I met her . ’ |