Example sentences of "her [noun sg] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despising herself for her weakness she reached for the telephone , dialling Nick 's number . |
| 2 | Novella no longer needs to feel gratitude that in her case she has a father who has allowed her to teach in his place ; she has parted the curtain and is speaking for herself — in as many tongues as she pleases . |
| 3 | Reaching into her case she pulled out a pair of ugly buttoned boots . |
| 4 | On catching sight of me she threw up her head , and as I was not looking in her direction she stood stock still , as these animals have a habit of doing when they are under the impression that they have not been seen . |
| 5 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 6 | When his lips slid from her mouth to trail a fire-shower of kisses along the smooth line of her jaw she shuddered , her hands lifting to push him away before suddenly , helplessly sliding over the strong hard muscles of his shoulders to link behind his head . |
| 7 | To her horror she felt her eyes fill with tears . |
| 8 | To her horror she felt the sting of tears in her eyes and looked away again , refusing to let him see her moment of weakness . |
| 9 | To her horror she came face to face with the two officers standing there with guns drawn . |
| 10 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 11 | Cleaned up for her inspection she supposed and even then many of them very far from tidy . |
| 12 | Clutching the hot loaf to her chest she fled , expecting every minute to hear shouts of : ‘ Thief … thief … ’ as she threaded between the wharves arriving at a narrow lane not far from Marsh Street where the press gangs roamed . |
| 13 | At her trial she pleaded guilty , and was given a two-year prison sentence suspended for two years . |
| 14 | Shortly after moving into her apartment she found a job where she was truly in her element . |
| 15 | The next time she consulted her watch she saw with surprise that it was nearly six o'clock . |
| 16 | According to her watch she had slept for about six minutes . |
| 17 | When we got back to her cottage she put her hand in her bodice and pulled out a string with her key and a whistle attached to it . |
| 18 | Before her course she says ‘ my skills with deaf women were abysmal ’ |
| 19 | Pausing only to change her dress and smooth her hair she went into the Casa Guidi , laboriously climbed the stairs and arriving in the drawing room in some distress through lack of breath , was hastily urged to sit down and put up her feet and take a dish of tea . |
| 20 | At the touch of his hand on her hair she twisted round , her eyes alight with hope , and Penry breathed in deeply , his face set . |
| 21 | Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon , |
| 22 | From a cupboard , she took a large , brown , straw hat and a dark grey coat ; and after first pinning the hat on to her hair she shrugged herself into the coat . |
| 23 | Her hair she had hacked short with her knife . |
| 24 | When she put her hand to her hair she felt small twigs and she was hastily removing them when a car slid to a halt beside her . |
| 25 | Good songs are ‘ Home on the range ’ , ‘ John Brown 's body ’ [ p.73 ] and ‘ Around her hair she wears a yellow ribbon ’ as well as other children 's songs such as ‘ Ai n't going to grieve my Lord ’ [ p.72 ] . |
| 26 | As she brushed her hair she examined her face in the mirror , amazed when no trace of the experience of the night showed on it . |
| 27 | She simply did not know , although deep in her heart she feared that what she felt for Nicky Scott Wilson was not true love . |
| 28 | She had been much comforted by Craig 's presence in the house these past weeks , but in her heart she had known the situation was an explosive one and could n't last . |
| 29 | Her breast felt hollow , as if it were her heart she had buried ; but she could move and speak , still . |
| 30 | But in her heart she had felt a pang of unease . |