Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Her foot went into a puddle : the green , algae-filled water slopped up over her trainer .
2 She was fortunate in that her income came from a family trust fund , so Ralph had never been able to get his hands on the capital .
3 Her hair gleamed like a hastily polished brass pot , its tiny dents reddish brown .
4 Her long black tresses were to go and her hair restyled with a soft perm .
5 The intruder was blonde ; her hair shone in a shaft of subdued sunlight from the slatted blind .
6 For an instant her heart skittered like a pebble over water as he pulled her towards him , his fingers hard against her flesh .
7 Her heart thudded with a fierce violence .
8 Her heart thudded like a sledge-hammer .
9 Her heart went to a 57-year-old man , her liver to a baby of eight months , her kidneys to a teenage girl and boy , and her corneas were used to save the sight of two people .
10 Her heart went into a cartoon clinch : Nothing Else Matters !
11 She clutched at these landmarks as her heart soared like a kite , time day and place an anchor to the swooping light of love .
12 Both eyes opened and her breath rushed out in a small burst of relief as she rolled over on to her back — and her heart slammed to a stop .
13 Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears .
14 Her heart raced like a riptide ; her ears rang and lights fizzed at the back of her eyes as if she 'd just dived deep into the bosom of Ocean .
15 And while her heart plodded to a dull beat , ‘ It looks as if I shall have to work the entire weekend , ’ he stated .
16 Yeah probably I think she 'll always be like it though , cos her mum 's just the same , she 's just like her mum , you know her mum got in a strop every day because she could n't go round , down the
17 Her discontent came to a head with the beginning of spring .
18 It happened so fast that her mind went into a spin , and she reeled dizzily , her gaze unfocused .
19 The vacuum cleaner ran smoothly , efficiently over the rich dark-yellow pile , collecting cigarette ash , canapé crumbs , scattered bulb fibre ; her mind sang with a faint clear high-pitched hum like a well-serviced machine .
20 Her mind raced like a deer before the hunter .
21 Norma , 55 , was unable to lie down for three months while her neck healed after a fall downstairs at a friend 's house .
22 Her neck rose in a long , rounded column to a face which , though not classically beautiful — the nose was too tilted , the mouth too wide — was heart-stopping in its freshness , its air of innocence combined with its look of deep , untapped feminine knowledge .
23 She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her .
24 And it was an old woman was sitting knitting in when her wool went through a hole in the floor .
25 Carol Watkins , who was nine months pregnant , suffered head and pelvic injuries when her car collided with a transit van at Dursley in Gloucestershire .
26 She was killed in Nottinghamshire while trying to get help after her car ran into a ditch .
27 She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do .
28 Her mouth closed after a moment and she said nothing .
29 Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round .
30 Her mouth opened in a round O of woe on an undulating panorama of partially masticated cream bun .
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