Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked steadily at her and Jenna moved back obediently , her heart suddenly pounding with anxiety because she had no idea what Alain was talking about . |
| 2 | Carrie reached for her coat , her heart still pounding in her chest and a tightening sensation in her throat causing her to gulp . |
| 3 | She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens . |
| 4 | Preoccupied with her own thoughts , and her mind still whirling with confusion from everything that had happened last night , Jessamy did n't hear the car draw up outside ; did n't hear the front door open and then quietly close again . |
| 5 | As the ship resumed its normal course , Lindsey made her way to her cabin , her mind still buzzing with what had been a well handled and straightforward transfer from ship to shore . |
| 6 | She was caught without defences , her mind still playing with the idea of being his darling girl . |
| 7 | Her knees seemed to have turned to water , her mind still reeling under the impact of the devastating revelation which had just come to her . |
| 8 | She mumbled beneath his mouth when his fingers pressed hard into her firm buttocks , and she felt a hot flame burn where his hand had rested , her mouth , her body , her mind all whirling with the incredible sensation that his unprovoked assault was arousing . |
| 9 | But today the eyes were vibrant with an anticipatory light and Lady Merchiston sat up against her pillows , her glance alternately flicking to the window and following her companion as she moved about the room , tidying up . |
| 10 | She spun round to face him , her mouth already setting into an angry line . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't do that again , please , ’ she said , her gaze quickly flicking through the room to see who had noticed . |
| 12 | His voice was thick and hoarse against her lips , and as she found her body instinctively straining towards him he ran a slightly shaking hand down over her shoulder to caress the jut of her breasts beneath the clinging yellow Lycra . |
| 13 | The last step but one creaked protestingly and she grimaced apprehensively , her body almost turning to stone as she waited for Dane to suddenly appear and demand to know what she was doing . |
| 14 | ‘ You know I 'll have to go , ’ Maggie said tremulously , not yet back to earth , her body still shivering with delight and reaction . |
| 15 | Then , abruptly , his mouth left her , and she gazed up at him in confused distress , her body still longing for his caress . |
| 16 | There she had found her husband still snoring on her cot , and she had stretched out on his ; but sleep had n't come , and long before dawn she had decided she must leave the camp at once . |
| 17 | The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose . |
| 18 | She was too good a cook and I was too faithful a disciple of her art Just lounging by our bed-sitter 's fireside was the sweetest of all occupations . |
| 19 | Yet it occurred to her now , as she lay quietly on her pillows , listening to the fire crackling in the winter chimney and her father peacefully snoring beside it , that such a time may never come . |
| 20 | Artemis could hear her father still calling to her to turn her pony , but there was nothing she could do . |
| 21 | Shiona held her for a moment , her anger instantly vanishing to be replaced by a warm , maternal well of love . |
| 22 | " You two are my children , " she continued , her voice abruptly returning to normal , " you are all I have , the only things that are truly mine . |
| 23 | He drew the pony to a stop , looked down at her hand still lying on his and said , ‘ You 're not the only one , Millie . |
| 24 | She had believed , like many others in the royal family , that her fame would be transitory , her star soon fading following the wedding . |
| 25 | She is in the early stages of pregnancy , her belly gently swelling inside her pink dress , and she tells me with obvious delight that she is expecting a summer bambino . |
| 26 | No , it did n't ; he still persisted in either standing too close or laying his hand on her arm then watching with amusement as she wrenched herself free . |
| 27 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |