Example sentences of "[vb past] her [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 2 | He bowed over her hand , then dismissed her fears of an imminent French invasion . |
| 3 | He dismissed her thanks with a wave of the hand . |
| 4 | She retained her faculties until the day she died . |
| 5 | She did not resist , but narrowed her eyes at the children . |
| 6 | It was still early , as she could tell from the light filtering through her curtains , and she narrowed her eyes at the sight of a cross Dana , who was obviously prepared to shake her again . |
| 7 | The girl in the Chinese house-coat narrowed her eyes upon the central figure in the tableau before her , and the supple lines of her face sharpened into crystal , and lost their smiling gaiety . |
| 8 | Her mind was floating over turquoise waves and she narrowed her eyes against an ocean that sparkled silver all the way to the horizon . |
| 9 | Dr Christine Henderson , the first such volunteer , had recently returned from Zimbabwe and described her experiences to the IC , providing graphic examples of the sort of problems that could encountered . |
| 10 | Following an illness , and dismayed at the prospect of remaining a home-bound spinster , she began , when already nearly forty , to travel rough in the then hardly visited Balkans , and she described her experiences in a series of vivid and forthright books . |
| 11 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 12 | She described her studies to the AAAS meeting . |
| 13 | One of them , Shardha Behn , described her feelings in an interview just after the strike ( Race Today , Sept 1974 ) : |
| 14 | Guido climbed out and snatched her cases from the back seat . |
| 15 | She held the grip for a second or two , released it and then stroked her fingertips along the edge of the muscle . |
| 16 | She bunched her fingers into a sharp cone and stabbed above the Daughter 's girdle-line , aiming for the throat , but the Daughter was too fast , and chopped her wrist , deflecting the blow . |
| 17 | Dana dabbed her eyes with a fine lace handkerchief , careful not to smudge her eye make-up , Claudia noted with indulgence . |
| 18 | Well , let me tell you that any reasonably proficient woman can fool a man into thinking — ow ! ’ she yelled as he grasped her shoulders in a painful grip . |
| 19 | Outside the Press cameras assaulted her senses with the battery of flashes , but she did n't allow herself to be flustered . |
| 20 | The Grand Mistress of the Empress 's Household was the Princess d'Essling ( daughter of a general and married into the family of Marshal Masséna ) , who discharged her duties with a detached severity . |
| 21 | Alyssia bared her teeth in a semblance of a smile and then abandoned the effort . |
| 22 | The officer then reported her remarks to the court . |
| 23 | She still clutched the flowers , and my tuggings on the lines moved her arms like a marionette , guided by the loops . |
| 24 | Is it too much to suppose that Saint Winifred herself moved her relics to the wagon that was bound for Ramsey ? |
| 25 | As she moved her thumbs to the sensitive muscles where his neck and shoulders joined , she exerted gentle pressure , and warmth flooded through her when he groaned . |
| 26 | She moved her shoulders in a hopeless gesture of defeat . |
| 27 | She moved her toes in the orange dust at the edge of the road . |
| 28 | Despairingly she moved her hands along the slender curves of her body , naked between the sheets . |
| 29 | She moved her hands among the leaves of the tomato plants , liking their roughness and hairiness , their harsh earthy smell , a bit sour , like that of geraniums . |
| 30 | She fixed her eyes on the street in an attempt to calm herself . |