Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb past] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 At last she reached Broom House and rushed into the surgery , where Helen greeted her with evident relief .
2 It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill .
3 ‘ It was to have children that Allah put her on this earth .
4 She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of .
5 She had five children , and her own independent income , and Creevey married her in 1802 .
6 But God confronted her about that laugh — not because she laughed in God 's presence but because her laughter expressed a limiting view of God which was a denial of his power and an incitement to doubt .
7 When Helen paused , he cannoned into her and she turned , offering a startled apology that turned into a cry of alarm as Goldman shoved her to one side .
8 She broke off , feeling a rush of heat and cold all at the same time as Niall studied her with penetrating intensity .
9 Then , as Guy reached her in one long stride , it no longer mattered .
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