Example sentences of "her [noun pl] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wave after wave of brilliantly coloured cloth issued from the basket , threatening to engulf her , but she struggled manfully against it , her fingers as fast as light . |
| 2 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 3 | The laughter fled from her eyes as quickly as it had come . |
| 4 | " Please , Great-grandfather , do n't let my father be angry with me for what Kim did , " she prayed silently , closing her eyes as tightly as she could in an effort to add force to her thoughts . |
| 5 | Curiously husky , his voice beguiled her ears as powerfully as his hands were seducing her body , caressing her naked skin beneath her simple top , tantalising the sensitised surface , warm and demanding , seeking the clasp of her flesh-coloured bra , dismantling it with a sure touch that might have come from practice but could equally well have been attributed to simple deduction , except that nothing was simple about this man who had already knowingly conquered her body … åd , unknowingly , her heart as well . |
| 6 | He could command her responses as easily as though he held her in thrall , and that made her more than a little afraid . |
| 7 | She did not care because a cold misery was seeping into her bones as surely as the damp seeped through her thin shoes . |
| 8 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 9 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 10 | She had well and truly burned her boats as far as Luke Calder was concerned , so pity help her if the rumours about his investing in the radio station were right . |
| 11 | The light rested on her cheeks as heavily as tears . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , not Lady Macleod , surely , ’ she said sweetly , putting a gloved hand out to him , and then proceeding to remove her gloves as provocatively as she could . |
| 13 | Artemis sat back and pulled on her reins as hard as she could . |
| 14 | That is , the whore was pretty in a superficial way , and probably skilled in presenting her wares as temptingly as instinct allows . |
| 15 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 16 | Her nipples are in her armpits , so she keeps her wings close to her sides as far as she can and lashes out with her feet and bites those that pester her . |
| 17 | The Nicholson 58 under full sail is a fine sight , especially with her sheets as tight as violin strings ( thanks to locked-up hydraulic winches ) making nine knots under an autopilot which refuses to switch off . |
| 18 | Kavelin had caught the empress with the second number in her hands as early as August 1857 , and by the end of 1858 the head of the Third Department was passing copies from the tsar to Prince Menshikov . |
| 19 | Within the confines of the royal schedule Diana has attempted to bring up her children as normally as possible . |
| 20 | She discards her admirers as often as she discards gloves , and poor Mama spends most of her time comforting the latest reject . |