Example sentences of "her [noun pl] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the bathroom , Donna had segued clumsily from ‘ I could have danced all night ’ to ‘ I 'm getting married in the morning ’ , her attempts at a Cockney accent so ludicrous that normally Alex would have been falling about . |
| 2 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 3 | Blanche found the gesture patronising , symbolising the way she was treated by many of her superiors at the Metropolitan Police or creatures from the male world of spies . |
| 4 | Margaret 's stature in the Party had been enhanced by her performances at the dispatch box as Robert Carr 's deputy opposing Labour 's Finance Bill . |
| 5 | As Guy gathered Isabel close to him , her words at the ford flashed into his mind . |
| 6 | An involuntary cry escaped her lips at the force of his grip . |
| 7 | Jahsaxa flashed her eyes at the doctor . |
| 8 | ‘ Then go to Pricewell 's , ’ Anna said , closing her eyes at the thought of telling Peter . |
| 9 | Margaret rolled her eyes at the ceiling . |
| 10 | She did not resist , but narrowed her eyes at the children . |
| 11 | It was still early , as she could tell from the light filtering through her curtains , and she narrowed her eyes at the sight of a cross Dana , who was obviously prepared to shake her again . |
| 12 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 13 | Moonlight shone into the room , its rays casting shadows over his hawklike profile , and tears blurred her eyes at the sight . |
| 14 | One spring-driven second later she 'd cut herself free , and two seconds after that she was showing her heels at the side door . |
| 15 | It was n't possible to have a conversation unless her earphones were connected , but this was the least of her worries at the moment . |
| 16 | Once , her taut nerves convinced her there were footsteps leaving the typists ' room and she dropped to her knees at the side of the desk where someone glancing in would not see her . |
| 17 | With the most artfully devised deliberation she managed not to avoid it , tripped spectacularly in such a fashion that she fell forward , the contents of the tea-tray , cups , saucers , dregs of tea , milk , sugar and cream cakes , all cascading neatly into Mrs Darrell 's lap , with McAllister herself , purple in the face as a consequence of stifling a dreadful desire to laugh , landing gracefully on her knees at the good lady 's feet . |
| 18 | The skirt did not reach her calves at the ideal point for flattery . |
| 19 | She prefers to engage her readers at the coal-face , as it were ; that of the formation of moral intuitions , or the making of decisions . |
| 20 | Anyway , that evening her hair was swept up over her ears at the sides and fastened back with two tortoise-shell clips , her eyes seemed dark as dark , and I just could n't get over her . |
| 21 | ‘ Araminta wanted me to clear up first , ’ Theda answered , trying to still the flutter that had attacked her pulses at the touch of his hand on her arm . |
| 22 | She forced hatred to her soul , for him and for the unwanted desire that leapt unbidden to her pulses at the taste of his mouth on hers . |
| 23 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
| 24 | Although why it should have plummeted to her feet at the mention of the unknown Joanna , she could not have said . |
| 25 | She found herself looking down the length of her legs , squinting through the V-shape of her feet at the gaggle of sails across the water , to try and isolate ‘ their ’ two . |
| 26 | Thérèse knew that she had been sent away from her parents at the age of two months , to be fed by Rose , that she had lived with Rose for sixteen months . |
| 27 | The moves follow a separate case involving a 14-year-old girl who will today defend her right to ‘ divorce ’ her parents at the High Court . |
| 28 | They result from an observer 's use of his or her senses at a particular place and time . |
| 29 | Tell her not to do her nails at the table . |
| 30 | On impulse , she decided to tell him of her discoveries at the belvedere and the conclusions she had drawn from them . |