Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] in her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN academic has been banned from sleeping or eating in her office at Stirling University after being told it was so cluttered with papers and food that it constituted a health and fire hazard . |
| 2 | He walked to his car and did not look back or glance in her direction as he drove quickly out of the drive . |
| 3 | Something seemed to open or to expand in her brain , releasing a cold voice which she had never heard there before , telling her that if he cheated her she might just as well kill him . |
| 4 | She did n't like him sitting on her cushions or dirtying her nice clean towels or weeing in her water closet or dripping on her bleached oak vinyl tiled floor . |
| 5 | Lee took them from her and kissed her and whispered in her ear : ‘ Be nice to Conrad , ’ because she knew Philippa considered him decadent and damned . |
| 6 | He kissed her again , on the forehead this time , and whispered in her ear , ‘ Kiss me back , McAllister . |
| 7 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 8 | More obscenities followed just as the two men were hurrying to catch up with Comfort , and then the woman stopped dead in front of Comfort and spat in her face . |
| 9 | The woman detective had gone off with Roxie Farmer to give her a cup of tea and sit in her house keeping an eye on her . |
| 10 | Emmie 's tongue felt thick and swollen in her mouth . |
| 11 | She had it wrapped in a cloth and hidden in her dress , next to her bosom . |
| 12 | All she longed to do at this very moment was run back to the Gasthaus and hide in her room . |
| 13 | Araminta swung round on him , and Theda looked past her , distress and reproach in her face as she met the lawyer 's eyes . |
| 14 | I tell you , it 's no laugh sharing with a kid what kicks and turns in her sleep week after week . ’ |
| 15 | Agnes was speaking through teeth clenched against any further emotion , and fumbling in her handbag . |
| 16 | A mumbled , incoherent sound bubbled and surfaced in her throat , and she clung to him for support , her fingers twisting in the silk of his shirt . |
| 17 | But at night when they get sleepy they always go to their mother and sleep in her embrace . |
| 18 | ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him . |
| 19 | They are forced to operate in the pre-subjective domain of the specular imaginary , using a tactic of ‘ mimétisme ’ ( subversive mimesis ) that Irigaray both describes and illustrates in her writing . |
| 20 | Colour surged and receded in her face . |
| 21 | She walked up the path , her sensible shoes making a crunching sound on the gravel , and searched in her handbag for the key to the front door . |
| 22 | She felt that her heart would burst with the ache of love , and searched in her mind for words that would bind him to her and bring him back . |
| 23 | The thoughts jumbling and whirling in her head , she came to the conclusion that the details did n't really matter . |
| 24 | I 've spared you the bit about sleeping with a famous broadcaster and writing in her magazine , The Libertine , that he was as ‘ good ’ as he boasted . |
| 25 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 26 | Oh , she knew she had learned a great deal during the last two years ; she also knew that a good part of herself was happy , mostly , she thought , because she had come to like Mrs Aggie and living in her house . |
| 27 | She has won prizes for ( drama/music/essay-writing/cookery/coming top of her class in school , been awarded the first grade in music/drama , studied nursing/teaching/ballet/ice-skating/ French and management/ interviewing/ accounting , learned how to drive/ski/sail/swim/dance/surf/ , followed her interests in travelling/bridge-playing/ opera/the orchestra/film and reading science fiction/ historical novels/biographies , as well as finding time to raise money for charity/do voluntary work with handicapped children/attend church functions regularly/ design clothes/paint/draw and to help in her family 's shop/business/company/restaurant . |
| 28 | ‘ But now you mention it , I 'm going to go and look in her bedroom too . |
| 29 | The images swirled and danced in her head like figures around a maypole . |
| 30 | It stung the back of her throat and fired in her belly . |