Example sentences of "[verb] about her " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 2 | She tried to go about her tasks with the same thoroughness as before , but too often her mind strayed from what she was doing , and promotion became less and less likely . |
| 3 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 4 | They had heard about her erotic exploits but their jaws dropped during the dress rehearsal of one of her entrances . |
| 5 | When the locum who had visited Allison at home heard about her multiple miscarriages , she suggested Allison should ask to be referred to the Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic at Pembury Hospital in Kent . |
| 6 | Had he heard about her romance with Ian White , the junior registrar ? |
| 7 | He had fantasized about her death almost as much as he had fantasized about Elinor 's . |
| 8 | Despite her weightiness , Mrs Beavis got about her house like a two-year-old . |
| 9 | She shook her head to rearrange her disarrayed hair ; the golden tresses tumbling about her face and shoulders in glorious abandon made her look doubly desirable . |
| 10 | She did what she could with her tousled mass of auburn curls , but when she twisted it into its usual topknot the starkness of the style served only to emphasise the weariness in her wide-set eyes , and with a little mutter of disgust she let the curls fall again , tumbling about her shoulders in riotous abandon . |
| 11 | The other woman shook her head bemusedly , sending her tousled red curls tumbling about her face . |
| 12 | Rory shook her head , sending her long wheat-coloured curls tumbling about her face . |
| 13 | Horribly aware of her own dishevelled state , her tousled hair tumbling about her flushed cheeks , Rory pulled herself up to her full height , summoning up all the strength she possessed to glare regally back at him . |
| 14 | I 'M HERE , BOSS : Bryan 's assistant Julia goes about her work yesterday |
| 15 | He spoke so reasonably , so casually , that she could almost imagine he cared about her feelings . |
| 16 | He cared about her pleasure and she responded to him more strongly than she had with anyone . |
| 17 | Now the world 's hottest actress tells SUNDAY LIFE about sex in the movies , sex in real life , and what she really thinks about her leading men : |
| 18 | She would be sure to make such a song and dance about her aching feet that she would get right to the head of the queue for the room-key — well , apart from Mrs Roscoe , naturally ! ’ |
| 19 | Her hat lay beside her and she found that her piled-up fair hair had been released and had fallen about her face . |
| 20 | Martha clangs about her business , her hair dragged into a tight bun , a bustle behind her and keys at her waist . |
| 21 | Her judgement of Alan Jones was both admiring and shrewd , and he asked about her own education , becoming aware that at least four other men were listening with great interest and that Catherine Crane was so used to this that she was unconscious of it . |
| 22 | As Claire was breast-feeding , her doctor asked about her diet and found that she was a vegetarian . |
| 23 | I asked about her daughter and her son and husband . |
| 24 | I asked about her work before she married . |
| 25 | There was some long-time-not-see and he asked about her mother . |
| 26 | He asked about her journey , and sitting beside him in the car she recounted the mix-up over the sleeper numbers , enjoying , still , hearing herself speak French . |
| 27 | The old man asked about her job ; in exchange he told her a little about himself . |
| 28 | I asked about her Home for Unmarried Mothers . |
| 29 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 30 | Jenny was in her dressing-gown , her blonde hair tumbled about her face , which was bereft of make-up , the eyes puffy from weeping . |