Example sentences of "her [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Topaz was trying to pretend that this man was n't making her weak at the knees . |
| 2 | Slowly , carefully , he pushed her away from him , flicking his lazy dark eyes over her nakedness before reaching to pull her swimsuit back up again , smoothing it over her body with a practised skill which left her weak at the knees all over again . |
| 3 | Startled , she looked up into Dane 's sea-blue eyes , and even as she tried to strengthen herself against him she felt a rush of longing so intense that it made her weak at the knees . |
| 4 | He grasped her suddenly nerveless fingers in his hand , sending her a smile with enough voltage to make her weak at the knees . |
| 5 | It 's a challenge all the more remarkable for the fact that not so long ago jetting off on holiday made her weak at the knees … |
| 6 | Add the possible problem with the wart , her upset at being all but mobbed by the crowd on a very hot day , and her apparently being carried off a true course in the straight by Achilles , and you have a long menu of excuses or explanations . |
| 7 | She was in her thirties at this time . |
| 8 | This was the first of the eight birdies Davies gathered , the best of all being her three at the 315-yard 13th hole , where she drove the green . |
| 9 | It was the mystery of what had happened that kept her awake at night . |
| 10 | She did n't really know what it was about him which made her go pale whenever they met and kept her awake at night longing . |
| 11 | It was plain to her that her therapist was meticulous , thoughtful and highly trained — it was undeniable — but Scarlet increasingly found all that beside the point because her malaise had not significantly decreased with treatment , and worrying about the cost of it kept her awake at night . |
| 12 | After Dan had drunk the hot sweet coffee that kept her awake at nights , they moved off , sitting in the small car for a while to look at the map . |
| 13 | She says that they kept her awake at night , and climbed over the fences . |
| 14 | It seemed to her ridiculous at such a time ‘ to ask this man to make a defence . |
| 15 | ‘ T was the same gallantry that prompted him to send Matilda to her most powerful supporter , instead of keeping her isolated at Arundel . |
| 16 | Mollie Salisbury had designed several gardens for friends , as well as her own at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire , and she was only too delighted to help plan a garden from scratch . |
| 17 | But she comes into her own at the not-bloody-likely tea party ; and by the end , she has achieved just the right blend of poignancy and pride . |
| 18 | Mrs Gawthrop 's first Rottweiler was Adda of Mallion , who held her own at All Breed Shows in the UK ; she was placed , which was difficult for a minority breed at the time , in variety classes . |
| 19 | The story ‘ You 'll Enjoy It when You Get There ’ is an amusing expansion of a gaffe of her own at a ‘ trade banquet ’ ; but the central figure is a young girl deputizing for her mother . |
| 20 | She had dreaded the moment when the food would be done with and the others would get up to dance , leaving her on her own at the table . |
| 21 | On her own at the till , Rachaela removed the extra pound and kept it . |
| 22 | Do n't leave her on her own at someone 's house or with a new babysitter , until she feels really confident in their company . |
| 23 | Then Amanda had turned up on her own at Meg 's leaving party , and he 'd managed to monopolise her in a corner of Meg 's kitchen . |
| 24 | We 've got one on her own at the end there , so . |
| 25 | well I said that 's up to you , but I said if you want a bed back in our room , you 'll have to fetch it I 'm not and yet she sleeps on her own at your house does n't she ? |
| 26 | She had become a school refuser , and Orkney Islands Education Department decided to offer her tutoring at home , and this was when one of the families in the case in question entered the picture . |
| 27 | Norma does her best at C & A , but we must hope that John Major runs our country more expertly than his wardrobe . |
| 28 | She knew she was n't looking her best at the moment , but they looked the type to know quality when they saw it she thought , as she fluttered he awnings at them , colourless now , tattered and torn by the wind . |
| 29 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 30 | She could make all the speeches she would like Tommaso to make , a hundred times over , and yet his awkwardness under her mother 's severity filled her full of pity too , and her chivalrous love returned to warm her and fortify her , suturing the cut that had opened in her earlier at his muteness the night before . |