Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] 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 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 .
5 The other old nomes watched her in horrified silence .
6 The seeming contradiction reminded her of another : ‘ the solution posed the question ’ .
7 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 .
8 No , he was n't — one glance at his chilling expression convinced her of that .
9 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 . ‘
10 Tamar found the side-saddle strange at first , but her previous experience stood her in good stead .
11 ‘ Some ghastly little girl accused her of lesbian advances . ’
12 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 .
13 His very silence drove her to further explanation .
14 The corner that Japan had been backed into by economic sanctions left her with little alternative .
15 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 .
16 The familiar voice froze her into unaccustomed rigidity .
17 Her former colleagues accused her of bad-mouthing them .
18 Anger emanated from fitzAlan in waves , the force of it completely overwhelming her , even as the physical impact of that ruthless kiss stunned her into frozen immobility .
19 She knew how to listen with active goodwill , while at the same time her sceptical and meditative temperament saved her from any impulse to change or manipulate clients .
20 At Stackpoole Junction the two railwaymen put her on another train and sent her home .
21 But the last unspoken question consumed her with fresh guilt .
22 It was like when she was eight , and Dead Daddy put her on Hero-9 to keep her under control .
23 The local authority provided her with temporary accommodation .
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