Example sentences of "her long [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her long fingers gripped the spoon so tightly her knuckles were white . |
| 2 | Laying a piece of liberally flowered cotton in front of her she hand-spanned it , her long fingers measuring the size needed . |
| 3 | Her long dress looked like an old fashioned night-gown . |
| 4 | She looked like a Cossack in jackboot-black sea boots , the skirt of her long dress looped up and tucked into the strap of a gold lamé handbag , the top half of her padded out by a fur-hooded anorak . |
| 5 | Victoria smiled again , and her long eyelashes flickered against her cheek . |
| 6 | Her long life had witnessed so many incredible events , but as the final twist of fortune engulfed her , she was already too decrepit , mentally and physically , to come to terms with it . |
| 7 | She straightened her shoulders , perhaps she had done enough for today , mam would be getting restless wanting a bit of attention after her long day spent mostly alone . |
| 8 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 9 | Christina had to yell at the top of her voice to be heard above the wind , her long hair whipping across her face . |
| 10 | Her long hair fluttered behind her as she moved about . |
| 11 | Her long hair had a faintly mossy look about it . |
| 12 | ‘ You like me , do n't you ? she had asked , her long hair loosened for sleep . |
| 13 | ‘ That idiot Amanda ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ has let her long hair grow even longer during the hols and her mother has plaited it into pigtails . |
| 14 | With her long hair drooping round her face and her large , mournful eyes , she looked like a lost basset-hound puppy . |
| 15 | She lay across the big bed with her head thrown back so that her long hair fell like a veil of copper across the coverlet . |
| 16 | Just then the girl dropped her cloak , and her long hair fell on to the shoulders of her red jacket . |
| 17 | Harriet is barbecuing pork kebabs , which w ill be as exotic as her long hair swinging blonde white over the glowing charcoal . |
| 18 | Clad in a sparkly jacket and a long black skirt , wreathed in silly string and clumps and strands of paper streamers from party poppers , her long hair bunned , she enveloped me in a very friendly kiss , breathing whisky and wine fumes . |
| 19 | In the kitchen , as she heard the sound of the car driving away , she slumped on to a stool , her long hair spilling over her fingers as she dropped her head into her hands with a heavy groan . |
| 20 | She was kneeling on a kitchen chair , her long hair trailing in the margarine , when she heard the steps . |
| 21 | Her long hair spread out in the water around her . |
| 22 | Julie had her eyes closed now and her head tilted back , so that her long hair dangled down and brushed against her arched back . |
| 23 | With her long hair combed , she looked reasonably presentable . |
| 24 | He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith . |
| 25 | And she 'd let her long hair fall around her face and shake it to some interior rhythm . |
| 26 | She had n't planned it deliberately , but she even looked as if she were heading into battle , clad in a flying suit , flat boots and a bomber jacket , her long hair captured in a plait . |
| 27 | She twirled and swayed around the room in a slow dance , her skirt billowing and her long hair shining beneath the bright lights . |
| 28 | She began travelling in earnest in 1927 when she was thirty-four ; later she crossed Persia , her long hair flowing , because she felt marginally safer from attack if bandits could see that she was a woman . |
| 29 | She saw her long hair floating like seaweed upon the waves . |
| 30 | She slid into the water and struck out across the lake with her new , easy stroke , her long hair floating like dark weed behind her . |