Example sentences of "her [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
2 | She dropped her robe on to the stool near by and stepped into the water , sinking slowly down into the warmth . |
3 | She has strong views on most issues and her propensity to express her views boldly at the outset of a Cabinet discussion , combined with a sometimes dismissive attitude towards opposing colleagues , tended to change the atmosphere and polarize Cabinet discussions . |
4 | I do n't think I had any blood on my hands , for I had held her ankles just below the silver bracelets . |
5 | Writing to her sister soon after the auction , Virginia was already depreciating her own aesthetic taste and attempted with a joke to pre-empt any criticism : ‘ Monk 's House will be perhaps the ugliest house in Sussex . ’ |
6 | Maggie went to Laura and kissed her sister tenderly on the cheek . |
7 | ‘ Sarah Perkins took her sister home in the last stages of consumption ; how I sympathized with her distress ! |
8 | Phyllisia too stood up to her father when he says he is going to send her and her sister back to the West Indies . |
9 | Virginia pushed her bike on to the grass-verge and stood under the heavy foliage of the trees for shelter . |
10 | Drawing a deep breath , she pushed her bike up to the gate . |
11 | She hugged her arms across her chest convulsively under the bright patchwork quilt . |
12 | She kicked out in imitation of martial arts movies , putting her hip behind the blow and landing her foot sideways into the hooligan 's stomach . |
13 | She nearly lost a shoe pulling her foot out of the hole behind her . |
14 | The thought of Norman 's discomfiture at finding her gone cheered her a little and she pressed her foot down on the accelerator , anxious to distance herself from the three of them , to reach the safety of home . |
15 | She put her foot down on the pedal and the car leaped forward . |
16 | The engine fired and she pushed her foot down on the accelerator so that the fierce roar echoed her feelings of pent-up frustration . |
17 | With the Further Education Centre now providing facilities for some 40 or more physical activity and Yoga classes , someone had to get her foot in at the door in those early days ! |
18 | Fran smoothed her notes out on the table , willing her hands to stay still when every bit of her was shaking . |
19 | On Thursday , her half-day off from the shop , as Rachaela was sitting in her chair listening to Tchaikovsky ballet music , the door sounded . |
20 | Robyn held it out at arm 's length , glanced at it and then cursed as she saw the blood that dripped from her fingers on to the black plastic . |
21 | She ran her fingers slowly over the stubbly , woven texture of a wall-hanging , part woven , part collage . |
22 | Without caring what he thought , she threaded her fingers tenderly through the thick , short waves of hair at the back of his head , probing gently with her fingertips for the already swelling lump . |
23 | But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them . |
24 | Lisa drummed her fingers impatiently on the phone table . |
25 | Virginia clenched her fingers tighter round the bedcover , her heart hammering against her ribs in panic . |
26 | But having no wish , as Virginia Woolf put it , ‘ to dabble her fingers self-approvingly in the stuff of other souls ’ and believing in the stick and carrot philosophy of human conduct , she joined the police . |
27 | She flicked her fingers contemptuously against the small decoration that he wore above his breast pocket and added brutally : |
28 | She ran her fingers gently over the manila surface and felt the outline of something small and cold inside . |
29 | And — oh , she also wanted — no , desired — to stroke his smiling face , to run the tips of her fingers gently along the dreadful scar to show that she loved every part of him , to … |
30 | Helen whispered , running her fingers reverently over the brilliants in Alexandra 's bracelet . |