Example sentences of "with her [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She accepted , and the picture of precocious , and faintly absurd depravity she presented , in her old , handed down dressing-gown , with her feet tucked up under her , her lank auburn hair about her face , and the cigarette cocked flamboyantly between the fingers of her left hand , gave him the keenest pleasure . |
| 2 | With her hair cut off she did n't even look like any normal Victorian parent 's idea of a daughter . |
| 3 | She was small and dark , with her hair scraped back into a bun . |
| 4 | A sunstroke did for her , and he found her floating , with her hair fanning out around her , her jewelled skin still sparkling like she 's alive — ; |
| 5 | Once , when she caught Cissie with her head down , drying herself in the heat from the fire with her hair hanging over her eyes and dangerously close to the flames , her heart had turned somersaults . |
| 6 | It was a black cleavage-revealing affair topped by a sparkling gold necklace , and with her hair swept up into a sophisticated style the older woman made Lucy feel like a country cousin . |
| 7 | She 's got this cute little duffle coat on and a bobble hat with her hair sticking out the bottom . |
| 8 | I just stand there watching her with her hair falling out of her hat , holding this dress against herself . |
| 9 | He stood looking down at her as she lay with her hair spread out on the pillow , her eyes still half shut by the heaviness of sleep and her lips smiling . |
| 10 | And so , with her emotions wrapped up safely in a package of anger , Lisa proceeded to face the coming fortnight . |
| 11 | Whoever she was living with , roused by the smell of burning , had come downstairs to discover her slumped across the hearth with her head pressed up against a glowing electric fire . |
| 12 | Rosa in the chapel with her head bent over her hands , her legs stiff from kneeling , thought , We will go away together , somewhere different from here , to Africa , he said , he wanted to go there , and I will take care of him , we are like each other , we are both … and she hunted for the word because she did not want to use the word ‘ misfit ’ , and found ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 13 | When the applause did come it was deafening , and she stood there unsmiling , though with her head bobbing up and down in acceptance of the appreciation . |
| 14 | She lay across the big bed with her head thrown back so that her long hair fell like a veil of copper across the coverlet . |
| 15 | With her veil pushed back and her black hood shading her face , she looked rather like a nun . |
| 16 | She left the theatre ten minutes after the curtain fell , running up the hill with her elbows pumping up and down , watching the clouds spreading behind the ruined tower of the church . |
| 17 | A few weeks ago , she had spent her eighteenth birthday in a drug-induced coma , with her back opened up as durium shieldlinks were laid around her spine . |
| 18 | Sally with her slaves rolled up and her hands black with ashes from the dead fire . |
| 19 | she 's laid down in front of that fire with her tummy warming through . |
| 20 | He imagined them lying close , arms round one another , Annie , perhaps , with her leg drawn up over the other girl 's haunch , and breathing softly on to one another 's faces . |
| 21 | It turned over with her daughter face down . |
| 22 | ‘ Sorry about that , but Sister Cas. does n't hold with her dressers chatting up her nurses . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And we would n't want to anyway , ’ Eve said with her chin stuck out . |
| 24 | She was a vision of loveliness with her curls peeping out from her mob cap and oh , those beautiful arms emerging from the short sleeves of her blouse . |
| 25 | Sister Marcus gave us the report with her sleeves rolled up . |
| 26 | Wearing an apron , with her sleeves rolled up and her hair tucked under a duster , Rosie stopped polishing the brasswork on the beer-pumps long enough to throw her a cheerful smile . |
| 27 | Léonie , with her sleeves rolled up and Victorine 's big blue overall wrapped round her , held the smeared plates under the hot tap , dunked them into the soapy water in the yellowing plastic bowl in the enamel sink , stacked them in the wooden rack on the tin draining-board . |
| 28 | He remembered how the fish lay gaping on its bed of newspaper , the flesh dark-red and subtly ribbed where it was split in half , and Yvonne with her sleeves rolled back and her wrists dipped in blood that smelt of tin . |
| 29 | A young woman with her hands clapped over her head would say that her headache had flown away on wings , like a butterfly . |
| 30 | With her diet sorted out , Lisa was also advised to do a lot more exercise , because her job entailed driving around all day rather than walking . |