Example sentences of "her [noun] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie went to Laura and kissed her sister tenderly on the cheek . |
| 2 | The thought of Norman 's discomfiture at finding her gone cheered her a little and she pressed her foot down on the accelerator , anxious to distance herself from the three of them , to reach the safety of home . |
| 3 | She put her foot down on the pedal and the car leaped forward . |
| 4 | The engine fired and she pushed her foot down on the accelerator so that the fierce roar echoed her feelings of pent-up frustration . |
| 5 | Fran smoothed her notes out on the table , willing her hands to stay still when every bit of her was shaking . |
| 6 | Lisa drummed her fingers impatiently on the phone table . |
| 7 | We look forward to his arrival in Britannia again and Boudicca is saving some good legs for him , — in fact they belong to a soldier of the IXth Legion who did n't hear her shout ‘ Get outta the way you stupid git ’ when she was trying her chariot out on the new road . |
| 8 | Mrs Ridley settled herself in a green velvet armchair , laying her stick carefully on the floor beside her . |
| 9 | Mrs Puri tapped her stick triumphantly on the ground . |
| 10 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |
| 11 | Bill and I would watch her sometimes , bemused by the eternal conundrum of women — grey hair straggling from its bun , a tweed skirt , stout shoes , rubber gloves , a rubber mat , oblivious to the way she looked , her mind fully on the job . |
| 12 | He remembered Karen 's absence like a silhouette cut from each scene in the house ; he remembered Sophie 's jeans and her underwear still on the floor . |
| 13 | A Muse sits on a rock , and Apollo before her stands not on the base-line but on an irregular indication of ground just clear of it . |
| 14 | Moreover , public expenditure restraints during the 1980s in particular have helped to turn the rhetoric of care by the community into de facto reality , as support services such as home helps and nursing auxiliaries have been reduced or withdrawn — a theme developed by Hilary Land in her chapter here on the demise of the social wage . |
| 15 | Tight-lipped , she drove in silence , keeping her eyes firmly on the road , but as they sat at red traffic-lights waiting for them to change she could n't keep silent any longer . |
| 16 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |
| 17 | His lips were in her neck and she shivered involuntarily at their touch , her eyes still on the scissors in his hand . |
| 18 | That was the result of her sleeping badly on the ‘ plane , and was serious enough for her to wear a neck scarf during her week of practice , but it caused no problems once the competition began . |
| 19 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 20 | But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free . |
| 21 | Miranda , in black linen shorts and halter top , lay with her feet up on the terracotta-coloured sofa , enjoying her idleness . |
| 22 | I would sit with her often for a whole hour , she with her feet up on the sofa , resting . |
| 23 | Tamsin puts her feet up on the table and asks why not . |
| 24 | The kitchen , I assume , thought Leonora , and swung her feet up on the sofa , chuckling at the ludicrously large socks . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm — not sure , ’ she answered on a whisper , as she strove with all she could find to keep her feet firmly on the ground because something too wonderful , too impossible , too impossibly wonderful was happening — was n't it ? |
| 26 | And Vasilissa stuck her feet out on the other side . |
| 27 | She bangs her fist down on the table , and pitches forward and cries . |
| 28 | She put her basket down on the pavement , held on to the woman with one arm , pulled on the man 's huge arm with the other , said to him firmly , if more than a little fearfully , ‘ No , you are not to touch her again . |
| 29 | And then she heard a movement in the next room , and , dropping her towel hastily on the floor by the tub , she slipped gingerly into the steaming water . |
| 30 | She yanked her flipper back on the ice . |