Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] her [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heat flared along her veins , ripple after ripple of heady sensation that shook her to the very depths . |
| 2 | Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them . |
| 3 | It was perfectly natural that Jake should marry — and , apart from how it might affect Kirsty , it was not an event that interested her in the slightest . |
| 4 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 5 | The walls were brick lined and the floor covered with dull tiles set in a herringbone pattern that reminded her of a Roman villa she had once seen near the South Coast . |
| 6 | Miranda and Angus sat in a velvet-lined , crimson booth that reminded her of an old-fashioned railway carriage . |
| 7 | Backed by just one woman trainee officer she confronted the suspect in alley off Lawrence Road , the scene of an attack in December 1991 that left her with a smashed up face . |
| 8 | A sentiment that ambushed her at the coldest moments . |
| 9 | Marion was sitting in the sun , her back to the hut that sheltered her from the cold wind . |
| 10 | But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before . |
| 11 | Salt shook her shoulder and when that made no difference , dragged her to her feet and propelled her to the small book-lined room known as the study . |
| 12 | I took Montaine by the hand and led her through the empty rooms … there were very many . |
| 13 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |
| 14 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 15 | He saw her state at once and without another word took her arm and led her into the little sitting room . |
| 16 | Then he took Victoria 's hand and led her towards the strange woman . |
| 17 | Allen took her by the arm and led her to the nearest stone shelter . |
| 18 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 19 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |
| 20 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 21 | He suddenly swung her into his arms , his tortured breathing the only sound in the darkened barn , and instead of carrying her down the stairs he turned and lowered her to the soft hay that was spread thickly on the floor behind them . |
| 22 | A mother who has put her daughter on the stage and made her into a teenage star is obviously aware that she is moulding something special . |
| 23 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 24 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 25 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was at that same party that Marevna , who stayed until dawn , saw Modigliani and Beatrice fighting ferociously until Modi grabbed her and flung her through a closed window . |
| 27 | It twisted and turned and bore her into an ominous and derelict suburb , stark in the orange street lights . |
| 28 | Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto . |
| 29 | Things that filled her with joy and drew her into the everyday lives of the two people she had loved for so many lonely years . |
| 30 | A legacy from a great-aunt had bought their house and provided her with a small income . |