Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's torn it , thought Lydia , swallowing the smile , extinguishing the sexuality which she knew she had caused to flicker about her like burning brandy round the Christmas pudding , and adopting instead a workmanlike , country-walking air . |
| 2 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 3 | His Mum had n't taken him to work with her since last year . |
| 4 | But then she looked into his eyes , which dwelt upon her in huge solemnity , and knew that he was burningly sincere . |
| 5 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 6 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 7 | Robyn turned the ignition over , realising he was gaining on her with remarkable speed , and the jeep roared into life . |
| 8 | Because , it occurred to her with heart-stopping suddenness , the last thing in the world she wanted was to be around when Rohan Saint Yves married Antoinette — or anyone else . |
| 9 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 10 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 11 | Bertha had looked at her in thoughtful silence for several long moments before she 'd said , ‘ Dear Lucy — I believe you could help me in this affair . ’ |
| 12 | She also had the costs of the case awarded against her — wiping out virtually all of the £334,000-worth of damages won by her in previous court actions against the press . |
| 13 | There may be no alternative to leave-of-absence or annual leave but the nurse should be given the opportunity to resolve her difficulty by seeking the help of colleagues who may be prepared to substitute for her at short notice . |
| 14 | He came towards her with outstretched hand . |
| 15 | Rosa thought of the Madonna , and thanked her , thanked her with a welling passion of gratitude such as even she had never felt towards her before that Tommaso had not taken advantage of her total willingness and that she was still intact — no one would be able to say anything against her.They could examine her if they wanted , those witches could paddle inside her to make sure . |
| 16 | He could n't like living with her under these sort of conditions . |
| 17 | I was almost up the stairs level with her by this time . |
| 18 | I thought she was really very nice and my opinion was formed from that one meeting with her by pure accident . |
| 19 | A vision of Colonel Beamish , listening to her with undisguised scepticism , loomed before her . |
| 20 | Luke himself did n't matter to her in any way . |
| 21 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 22 | Not while Julius 's hands moved over her with quickening need , his skin burned steadily against hers , and his voice murmured in her ear , the words unintelligible but his tone telling her something she had never expected to hear again . |
| 23 | The near-black eyes moved over her with open distaste . |
| 24 | The other thing , I think , erm I do appreciate that Phyllis has got a terrible problem running the Council with the constraints imposed on her by Central Government , and by and large I think they do it very well , as I have said . |
| 25 | He was looking at her with faint amusement in his eyes , one eyebrow slightly raised , and she became aware that he was quite used to this reaction from women to his undoubted charisma . |
| 26 | He was looking at her with such tenderness and love that she thought she would faint from sheer happiness . |
| 27 | Mrs Foster had told them Matthew was a bad-tempered boy , and she 'd certainly been right about the bad-tempered part , though this was no boy standing here looking at her with such menace . |
| 28 | She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's . |
| 29 | He was looking at her with one eyebrow cocked . |
| 30 | ‘ He does n't , eh ? ’ said the tramp , who was looking at her with great interest . |