Example sentences of "her [noun pl] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They regarded the General-Secretary 's wife as uncouth and comic in her attempts to ape the styles of the more chic among the Communist élite . |
| 2 | Its status or ( as importantly ) its lack of value creates complex systems of meaning which are rarely articulated ; for the police world has similar strictures to that which Benedict ( 1967 ) described in her attempts to understand the rigidities of Japanese culture : |
| 3 | Fascinating to watch : how she smoothed down the shard of the totem to make it a circle , to flatten it out ; how she trimmed and chipped to make the natural lines flow ; how she scored out the eyes , the mouth ; how she touched colour with her fingers to emphasize the woman in the land , in the mask ; how the dead wood began to live and breathe . |
| 4 | In Davidge v Bunnett [ 1984 ] Crim LR 297 ( DC ) the accused was given money by her flatmates to pay the gas bill . |
| 5 | ‘ Take me back to Venice now , ’ she husked , wriggling her thighs to dissipate the ache . |
| 6 | She had married the King of Spain ; she had restored the Latin Mass ; she had required her subjects to acknowledge the authority of the Pope which her own father had so blatantly flouted . |
| 7 | She closed her eyes and , with a little groan of defeat , parted her lips to accommodate the onslaught of his probing tongue . |
| 8 | But she did n't give us the satisfaction of raising her eyes to confirm the fact . |
| 9 | He fell silent , staring broodingly at the picture , and Kathleen closed her eyes to stop the tears from overflowing . |
| 10 | She managed a light laugh but had to blink her eyes to prevent the gathering tears from falling . |
| 11 | She dropped her eyes to study the contents of her glass . |
| 12 | It was full moon , Inspector , ’ Miss Tilley rounded her eyes to help the Inspector with this concept . |
| 13 | She lowered her eyes to avoid the priest 's glance . |
| 14 | Luce became aware of sunlight lying like a warm caress across her closed lids , and opened her eyes to find the shutters throwing tiger stripes of light and shade across the bed . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said softly , a hand at her eyes to shade the glare of the sun as they lay naked and wrapped together on the hot , deserted beach . |
| 16 | She heard the bedroom door open and put her hands over her eyes to shield the glare from the landing light . |
| 17 | When she saw Mike in the pit — Mike who had helped her dam the slurry lagoon four years before — attaching a cluster to one of a line of cows , when she slapped the flank of that cow , and shut her eyes to inhale the air loaded with the smell of blood-warm milk , udderwash and cow breath , she was utterly content in the conviction of her seamless permanence . |
| 18 | It did n't really hurt her : even when he had her part her legs to apply the flap to the tender inside of her thighs , she was in no real pain . |
| 19 | Carrie dropped to her knees to examine the ankle making sympathetic noises as Seb told her how the accident had occurred . |
| 20 | She flung herself upon him , going down on her knees to kiss the ramrod . |
| 21 | She would have to find an envelope and buy a stamp ( where was the post office ? ) and post the letter and then a day would pass and then Mrs Rundle would take out her spectacles to read the letter in some new kitchen , with a refrigerator and a stove with automatic oven-control and an eye-level grill and gleaming plastic working surfaces and an electric blender and an electric coffee-mill , probably . |
| 22 | She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ . |
| 23 | An alien noise stopped her thoughts mid-flow , and she tensed , straining her ears to recapture the sound . |
| 24 | The Orderly Officer inspects the duty staff on staff parade and then goes on her rounds to check the perimeter fence . |
| 25 | She walked away down Milvain Street as fast as it was possible for her feet to hit the ground . |
| 26 | 2 She turns quickly on the balls of her feet to meet the advance . |
| 27 | He looked at the spreading white pool helplessly , and Claudia leapt to her feet to avoid the liquid splashing her jeans . |
| 28 | Words of warning were lurking somewhere in the darkest recesses of her mind , but the physical longing was n't so easy to abruptly cancel out , and besides Guy was already peeling the rest of the gold swimsuit down to her waist , then straddling her to place strategic kisses along the path of exposed skin as he lifted her hips to ease the costume down to her thighs . |
| 29 | She smoothed the dark wings of her eyebrows , pinched her cheeks to make the colour come . |
| 30 | She was indomitable in her determination and tireless in her efforts to serve the women and children who were her special charge . |