Example sentences of "her [noun pl] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She countered by deliberately breaking the rules , exhausting her opponents and winning by default . |
| 2 | She finished her notes and looked at the list of suspects . |
| 3 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 4 | Aunt Sarah 's rug needle dropped from her fingers and clattered on the stone floor . |
| 5 | She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large , |
| 6 | Marc reached out and took the receiver from between her fingers and spoke into it . |
| 7 | Her rolled-up handkerchief was already soaked through but she went on twisting it round and round in her fingers and dabbing at her wet face . |
| 8 | Guido dropped her cases and strode across the tiled floor . |
| 9 | She intended to pick up her cases and proceed with what she was here to do , go up and out into the street and thence to Streatham Street to find the hotel . |
| 10 | Only her determination not to betray weakness in front of fitzAlan had enabled her to grit her teeth and step into the seemingly bottomless pit . |
| 11 | She now had a cigarette between her teeth and squinted against the smoke . |
| 12 | He was a clever , devious swine , she reflected bitterly as she cleaned her teeth and prepared for bed . |
| 13 | Somewhat reassured , Luce cleaned her teeth and climbed into bed . |
| 14 | Robyn gritted her teeth and refrained from answering — she needed all her powers of concentration to stop herself from slipping . |
| 15 | In the end , Honor gritted her teeth and tapped on the door . |
| 16 | She moved away a little , patting her petticoats and looking at the dog . |
| 17 | She watched , listened , learned and assessed , speaking only when spoken to in general — whilst all the while making her plans and looking to the future … |
| 18 | She stood worriedly in front of him , brows pulled together , feathery hair over her shoulders and clinging in fine threads to the sweat of her forehead . |
| 19 | Placing the night-light against the wall she sat down on the top stair , humping the eiderdown high over her shoulders and gazing into the darkness . |
| 20 | For as she turned towards him , a great fall of bright copper hair , loosened by the wild chase , came cascading about her shoulders and fell to her waist , enveloping her in a rippling sheet of flame . |
| 21 | Hair , streaked with the colours of the sun , tumbled down her back and over her shoulders and swung in waves as she shimmied down the catwalk . |
| 22 | It started in her toes and across her shoulders and squirmed through her , aching , sweet . |
| 23 | I held her shoulders and reached through her to Daine . |
| 24 | Wriggling her shoulders and pushing with her feet , she covered the last ten yards . |
| 25 | He slung an arm around her shoulders and grinned at Jake . |
| 26 | A coldness spreading across her shoulders and racing through her limbs … . |
| 27 | She was better satisfied with their trip to a beauty parlour , where Martha 's hair was released from its braids , anointed with a number of glutinous white creams , cut to the level of her shoulders and wound upon enormous wire rollers . |
| 28 | She threw her shawl around her shoulders and hurried from the house . |
| 29 | Iris picked up her pyjamas and headed for the bathroom . |
| 30 | Shiona gathered up her pyjamas and headed for the bathroom , her mind retracing the events of the night . |