Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Startled , he turned , but Therese had darted , scooping her peacock train up over one arm , back around behind the screen , to the side he should have been on . |
| 2 | One minute there you were asking casual questions about arsenic and the next there was your wife throwing up and having her hair fall out . |
| 3 | She paused with her ribbon in her hand and tossed her hair loose down her back without plaiting it up again , to please Finn , although he was uncouth . |
| 4 | She drew her engagement ring down her fine finger and pushed it back again preparatory to making a move in a game . |
| 5 | There was something in his voice that made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up . |
| 6 | She saw only her darling come down the room Nicandra might have walked alone , so unaware was Aunt Tossie , for the moment , of the little friend . |
| 7 | You knew what she was doing ; she deserves to have her business fold up around her . |
| 8 | In Mary Barton the working-class heroine and her husband go off to the colonies to start a new life . |
| 9 | So her head come out what 's the trouble ? |
| 10 | He heard the tin bracelets jangling on her wrists and from time to time she bent her head close over her fists as though blowing on reluctant embers ; but it was some time before he realized that he , too , was naked , and that the hands of the Moi girl were stroking and chafing his own body . |
| 11 | Diana 's three best pals are the women who shared her bachelor-girl pad in in Knightsbridge before she was married . |
| 12 | You could , could the window tre the cleaner get through that window he said yes , but she 'll have to , he 'll have to force it , she said oh I do n't want it forcing , no , somebody at the shop in the greengrocers rooted through the phone book , eventually got her daughter 's phone number in Urmston , phoned for her and her daughter come down |
| 13 | It turned over with her daughter face down . |
| 14 | But he saw her hand fly up and hold her mouth , he saw Creed slide an arm round her shoulder . |
| 15 | She hitched the full skirt of her Summer dress up above her knees , and swung her long legs for him to see . |
| 16 | ‘ The old bag 's got her ear trumpet out , ’ he said too clearly . |
| 17 | She let the cooling suds tickle her wrists , worked her white-locked mop in and out of glasses . |
| 18 | The mother was unaware of how much time and attention a young child required as she herself had a very deprived childhood in the West Indies where her role was as a maid to help her mother bring up her brothers and sisters . |
| 19 | ‘ Mum — ’ Nutty turned round and her mother let out a wild scream , shooting plum juice all over the tablecloth . |
| 20 | The captain of the work party watched the woman and her son go in , then signalled to his men to complete the sealing-off of the cottage . |
| 21 | Why had n't her lipstick come off ? |