Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thrift has nearly killed her on several occasions , through the agency of old sausages , slow-punctured tyres , rusty blades . |
| 2 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 3 | ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course . |
| 4 | I 'd never associated her with any kind of wit , but these were joky and mocking , very amusing letters . |
| 5 | It would have been very hard for him to have suddenly dropped her after all she had endured . |
| 6 | It was five long years since any man — this man — had intimately touched her like this ; five years in which she 'd held at bay these deep torrents of emotion , which would not now be denied . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 8 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 9 | And seeing Nicole had only reminded her of that fact . |
| 10 | I 've just bathed her in cold water to get the temperature down cos she 's . |
| 11 | Constance had also fought her mother all the way when she was young and her personality was still forming , and then had somehow abandoned her in later life , when the need to fight had gone . |
| 12 | Papa had always protected her from such things . |
| 13 | He had once questioned her on this point , saying that a man of his age preferred younger women to be seen out with . |
| 14 | In court his wife Christine admitted a lesbian relationship and said her husband had once caught her with another woman . |
| 15 | Life had often treated her like that since she had met the Doctor . |
| 16 | Her childhood in the Burrows had well acquainted her with fearsome beasts of all shapes and sizes . |
| 17 | I 've never seen her before this year ! |
| 18 | She does n't know , of course ; I 've never told her of this tiny , precise pleasure of the night . |
| 19 | He had never seen her like this before and , despite himself , was glad of the moment . |
| 20 | With all his good looks , his concentrated effort to win her , Paul had never affected her like this , never made her feel a fraction of what she felt now . |
| 21 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 22 | Now she told him that he had never understood her in any case . |
| 23 | Well it 's just , he 's just let her on that . |