Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fidelma stumped out of the room , deciding she had pressed her luck far enough and Timothy put his cup down , oddly disturbed . |
| 2 | The pup guzzles her milk so steadily and so hungrily that it swells almost visibly . |
| 3 | Her wings might be old and her talons blunt but strangely her illness had sharpened her mind even more and she knew that somehow a chance would come . |
| 4 | Writing this down , I realize she is afraid , but this morning she shared her fear so publicly and laughed so heartily that this did n't strike me till now . |
| 5 | She had lost her fear long ago but she had not been close to a man like this for over two years . |
| 6 | It was clear , furthermore , she was a housekeeper who took her work very seriously and in spite of her youth , she seemed to have no difficulty gaining the respect of her staff . |
| 7 | When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally . |
| 8 | The tentacle came out of her body as easily and unendingly as a roll tape measure . |
| 9 | Kate looked up , her attention now well and truly caught . |
| 10 | She moved her head slowly now and seemed to be making an effort to speak , and then she muttered , ‘ You 'll be getting your calling up papers eventually , in any case , so why … ? |
| 11 | Success was not going to turn her head yet however and Kylie made sure her school work did n't suffer . |
| 12 | He wisely asked for the downward transition after a circuit and the mare came down to trot , threw her head up briefly and then rounded again . |
| 13 | The BPA pay for her ticket out there and put her in a yard . |
| 14 | I know you probably do n't want to hear her name ever again and if that 's what you want that 's my promise , but it 's all to do with London is n't it ? |
| 15 | ( During a lunch given in his honour by the British in the island , the wife of one of the wine-shippers bit her tongue rather painfully and asked Lloyd George if he ever did that . |
| 16 | She was somewhat startled to find a waiter knocking on her door very soon and he came in bearing a tray of tea and a pain-killer , looking at her sadly and murmuring his regrets . |
| 17 | Although Joanne clearly loves her daughter very dearly and feels that having her has made her more responsible , she spends relatively little time with her . |
| 18 | ‘ They like her music very much but to be honest I am of the older regime , I prefer the traditional Welsh choral music . |
| 19 | Now he pretended to be waving his cape at the bull and executed a neat veronica , then she kicked her leg up backwards and touched her heel with her fingers while he looked scornfully on with one hand behind his back palm facing outwards . |
| 20 | Her success both nationally and internationally , has reflected a what's-in-it-for-me ? attitude . |
| 21 | I guessed , as everyone else must have done , that at some point she could not manage her life any longer and had gone out and stepped into the stream as a way of escape . |
| 22 | Finding it , and telling him bluntly , ‘ That 's going to be the size of an egg soon ! ’ she pulled her hand away again and found touches of blood . |
| 23 | Yet she could not deny that her heart tilted inside her as he reached for her hand once more and assured her , ‘ I 'm as free as you are . |
| 24 | It was touch and go whether I was going to rejoin her world ever again or … or cop out . ’ |
| 25 | Diana admitted to Penny that she could n't bear the pressure of her position any longer and that she had to leave the system . |
| 26 | At the farthest end of the scale is the person who tries to improve his or her shape only once or twice a year , perhaps even less . |
| 27 | Anger gave her an added surge of strength , and she twisted her arm sharply downwards and broke his grip . |
| 28 | She got over her homesickness pretty quickly and he used to come over here with her every year until we were old enough to come instead . ’ |
| 29 | Her mother looked at me , her face as still and hard as a life mask . |
| 30 | He touched her face very tenderly and believed he felt warm flesh . |