Example sentences of "her [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're aw' the same , ’ Isa lifted her knitting out the carrier together with a badly printed pattern clipped from a copy of The People 's Friend that she had found on the train to Wemyss Bay . |
| 2 | The rope supporting her passed over a beam , slippery with sweat and condensation , and was secured , taut as a cable , through an iron ring in the floor . |
| 3 | That is why I stooped to traffic with the Man-greedy Frost Giantess , and why I intrigued with her to drive out the Gruagach and why I helped the Gruagach to vanquish the High King and take Tara . ’ |
| 4 | I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you . |
| 5 | She could n't think what had made her blurt out the goading words . |
| 6 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 7 | While studying spinning in Huddersfield ( as part of her degree course in textile design at Middlesex Polytechnic ) there had been no time for her to try out the machine , so the then sceptical technician told her to come back later . |
| 8 | She had long ago stopped resenting their original professional clashes , and these days their disagreements tended to be over minor details , with her ending up the victor as often as he did . |
| 9 | He found her walking along a path through the fields . |
| 10 | They were in luck , for the sky was still murky and a thin drizzle falling , excuse enough for him to cover his head and shadow his face within his capuchon , and for her to pull forward the hood of her old cloak , and hide within it . |
| 11 | I could see her checking out every point on the landscape , sussing the locality . |
| 12 | Then he stepped towards her to stand just a couple of feet away . |
| 13 | They only wanted her to clean out the drain with a stick . ’ |
| 14 | It is the only course in the United Kingdom which will qualify her to set up a dance and fitness college in the province — a business , she believes , which will afford her children security for the future while fulfilling their mother 's lifelong ambition . |
| 15 | It had never even occurred to her to wonder why the land where the cottage had stood was still empty . |
| 16 | It occurred to her to wonder where the money came from to support the style . |
| 17 | ‘ Why do n't you ask her to sort out the food ? |
| 18 | He reached past her to pick up the papers , a faint smile curling his chiselled lips as he scanned the typewritten sheets . |
| 19 | I was n't really listening , just waiting for her to pick up the phone . ’ |
| 20 | Afterwards he took her to pick up the ring . |
| 21 | Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in . |
| 22 | Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes . |
| 23 | Once in , it seemed nothing , absolutely nothing , could make her give up the job she loved . |
| 24 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 25 | This almost welcoming message kept her going down the raccordo to Siena . |
| 26 | Yet the world champion is so unpredictably gifted that one on-song display could easily enable her to sweep aside the opposition . |
| 27 | Although the Empress submitted momentarily , divisions within the nobility enabled her to tear up the councillors ' terms . |
| 28 | Just to show her who 's boss , I compel her to let out a shriek . |
| 29 | Apart from the fact that I 've never known her dig up a weed or pick a single daffodil , she simply is n't cut out for that kind of work . ’ |
| 30 | Hands at her mouth , she bolted to the bathroom , slamming the door behind her to shut out the sounds of her vomiting as her stomach relieved itself of its contents with such violence that she was left retching drily long afterwards until the spasms died away . |