Example sentences of "her [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sustained her when the pain inside her became near-unbearable , and it was not for sharing . |
| 2 | His memory of her became dulled and blocked , a stalemate of the imagination that began to have the taste of sloth and suicide , like the evil torpor that can ensue from spending night after night without a dream . |
| 3 | Ken 's equally eccentric behaviour towards her became evident early on in the out-of-town try-outs in Brighton , Liverpool and Oxford . |
| 4 | My relations with her became cold , but correct . |
| 5 | I do n't want her made unhappy . |
| 6 | When her owner tried to get on , she crossed her jaws , and flung herself up on to her hind legs , wild-eyed and distraught ; and no amount of reassurance , leaving the reins completely slack , or having another person hold her made any difference . |
| 7 | Why did you have to let her read that ? ’ |
| 8 | LITTLE Laura Davies , who is critically ill following rejection of her transplanted small intestine , was last night facing a massive new operation , to replace her entire digestive system . |
| 9 | In my study , a white mother , previously married to a full-time skilled manual worker and now living on benefits , described her changed economic circumstances like this : |
| 10 | From all around her came creaking and groaning noises . |
| 11 | From her came such a whiff of defeat that Alice had to force herself to stand up to it . |
| 12 | The very air around her seemed alive with tension and expectancy . |
| 13 | It would be expected of him , he said , which to her seemed reasonable . |
| 14 | The chance of Damien Gould helping her seemed unlikely in the extreme , unless she could apply pressure on him . |
| 15 | Everything about her seemed elongated : her fingers , her face . |
| 16 | The Italian stared back at her widened lagoon-blue eyes which had become very serious . |
| 17 | The people kneeling around her sighed all together , a breath of wonder that rippled through them . |
| 18 | Angela Cartwright jammed her befeathered tweedy hat on her head . |
| 19 | She 'd seen Jeanette close-to , and she 'd seen her scrubbed clean and ready for home . |
| 20 | Jazzman Dexter Gordon in his final role as the awakened musician/dreamer Rolando proves he could have not one but two brilliant careers , old stage trouper Gloria Harper gives her awakened mad flapper full flight and John Heard is a rock of cynicism as the hard bitten hospital administrator . |
| 21 | For she was pleased , just as she always was when people pointed out how much she looked like her adored older brother . |
| 22 | What if a crowd of soldiers came by to see her bound helpless with her legs spread , and her quim exposed to them . |
| 23 | On the flight from Los Angeles , she wants 12 rows of seats around her kept empty . |
| 24 | It was proof that what had meant so much to her meant little or nothing to him . |
| 25 | ‘ Everyone who came into contact with her felt better for knowing her . |
| 26 | All who knew her felt this : she had cruel enemies , the mad , the diseased , the godless , the savage and the greedy hated her . |
| 27 | Every part of her felt open to him , wanting him , needing the fulfilment only he could give . |
| 28 | She looked down at the notes on the small side table , and then pulled off her wore framed pince-nez . |
| 29 | Nathan 's look as he towered over her sent cold shivers rippling down her spine . |
| 30 | She wrinkled her freckled teenage nose . |