Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gallant compliments of the captain and his officers particularly had reminded her that the beauty so widely admired in her youth had not yet faded . |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 3 | Niall took his eyes from the road long enough to glance in her direction . |
| 4 | I could so easily have divided Charlie 's six per cent between Sal , Grace , and that awful Kitty , who had so obviously lied about her brother 's death . |
| 5 | And for the first time since he had so suddenly reappeared in her life Laura saw her husband 's shoulders slump , almost as if he was bearing the weight of his own brother 's horrific injuries . |
| 6 | She is perhaps best known for her book South Riding which was based locally . |
| 7 | It was sparsely furnished , for Anne had only just come into her inheritance , but it was newly decorated and clean . |
| 8 | Had her dream hero been so deeply embedded in her heart that her mind had never stopped believing in him ? |
| 9 | All these things Victoria did with a sense of duty so deeply buried in her psyche that no trace of condescension or obsequiousness marred the performance . |
| 10 | He felt a weight lifted when she had gone — he had so nearly fallen into her trap . |
| 11 | A black undertow dogged Eardley 's life , perhaps partly attributed to her father 's suicide when she was seven . |
| 12 | If this is the right Elizabeth , can we come much closer to him than through the loved child christened at Stratford ‘ Elizabeth , daughter of John Hall , gentleman ’ and her Bible , so tenderly inscribed by her husband ? |
| 13 | But it was starting to worry her that he could so openly refer to her running away from him , and since she had no intention of going into the ‘ whys ’ and ‘ wherefores ’ of that , and since she had made her apology for deceiving him — and had got off rather lightly , she had to admit — Fabia got to her feet . |
| 14 | There was also the fact that she had fair hair only partly hidden under her straw boater , a most peculiar hat in these parts . |
| 15 | Yet how could she possibly feel jealous over a man whom she had so long ago evicted from her heart ? |
| 16 | She was not to know that Tina , sticking to her principles , had long ago slept with her cousin Jarvis . |
| 17 | Catherine Lee is an artist who has surely not exhibited so extensively nor is so well known as her painter-husband , Sean Scully . |
| 18 | She stood there until he went quiet , stayed a few minutes longer to be certain and only then returned to her cupboard bedroom next to the servants ' loft . |
| 19 | Alright he , he 's probably down there with his wife and my friend and invited me down there to stay in her house but I do n't think it 's September actually , so I do n't , some . |
| 20 | She shut the door gently then went to her daughter 's room . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 22 | Gilly finds an excuse for going back to Mr Randolph 's house and she manages to steal the rest of his money , but there is still not enough to pay for her ticket to San Francisco . |
| 23 | Melinda , who run the kitchen and bathroom design company Just So Design with her partner , is one of a growing number of people who are finding it easier , and more profitable , to manage their business from home . |
| 24 | In this case , Brenda not only accommodates to her father 's language variety ( Standard English , in terms of syntax ) but actually echoes his words in agreement in the first part of her turn . |
| 25 | But what Miss Blagden had sought her out for was not only to ask after her welfare or bring news from Lucca but to offer her two lady-boarders for three months . |
| 26 | She had not long returned to her room however , when her telephone rang , and when she answered it the sun came out . |
| 27 | She knew that her father did not exactly approve of her lifestyle , but he had refrained from saying anything to her because he doted on her . |
| 28 | A woman from another tribe might not easily fit into her partner 's home environment , where she would not know the language and where the local women might not accept her . |
| 29 | Emma just like sprawled on her back and Scott with his back to the camera obviously just about to undo his flies and pork her . |
| 30 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |