Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hooded eyes surveyed her with frank appreciation mingled with amusement . |
| 2 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 3 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 4 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 5 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 6 | If Margaret Thatcher stands down before the next election , as most voters appear to believe she should , Michael Heseltine is the popular choice to succeed her as Conservative leader , according to the opinion polls . |
| 7 | If only there were some way to release her from this bondage , turn her again into what she had been ; a young actress on her way to the top of the ladder , as Papa had often put it ! |
| 8 | The other old nomes watched her in horrified silence . |
| 9 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
| 10 | Roman , desiring her , his dark gaze drawing her into that hot , frightening vortex of her own senses … caves , black as night , ‘ caverns measureless to man ’ , and the story of the wicked Hasan … |
| 11 | The seeming contradiction reminded her of another : ‘ the solution posed the question ’ . |
| 12 | and it was too much hassle to put her into any other job . |
| 13 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 14 | Her attitude toward individual patrons sets her beyond most of her contemporaries in defending the integrity of her work . |
| 15 | No , he was n't — one glance at his chilling expression convinced her of that . |
| 16 | She could sense how his body moved towards her subtly ; how , with the utmost casualness , he strove at each moment to include her in all that was said . |
| 17 | And the touch of his scorching lips , the clasp of his arms , the close union with his warm , strong body robbed her of all strength and of all power of resistance . ‘ |
| 18 | Tamar found the side-saddle strange at first , but her previous experience stood her in good stead . |
| 19 | ‘ Some ghastly little girl accused her of lesbian advances . ’ |
| 20 | Her republican sympathies brought her into direct conflict with her brother Sir John French , who was viceroy , but they were reconciled before he died in 1925 . |
| 21 | But with the size that the baby is already , it 's likely Greene would have a hard time getting her beyond thirty-eight weeks . |
| 22 | Her family and friends made many attempts to draw her into public life , including offering the sub-editorship of a literary magazine , but these were all rejected . |
| 23 | Then the hotel ( ‘ Charlie sent us , ’ ) and the assistant manager drawing her to one side ( ‘ I 'm putting you in a suite for a couple of hours . |
| 24 | He had stood quietly swaying himself on his heels , an almost derisive expression in the curl of his lips as he smoked a cigarette , his very silence provoking her to further abuse . |
| 25 | His very silence drove her to further explanation . |
| 26 | Tragedy of twin too weak to survive alone Three-year-old girl dies after 15-hour surgery to separate her from Siamese sister |
| 27 | Some female handed them a hypo-bulb and they sprayed it into Jezrael 's face , and there was a physical paralysis leadening her without physical pain . |
| 28 | The corner that Japan had been backed into by economic sanctions left her with little alternative . |
| 29 | This perfidious inner reaction drove her into ferocious silence as they headed back down the coast again , berating her stupidity as she watched the lush green hills glide by . |
| 30 | The familiar voice froze her into unaccustomed rigidity . |