Example sentences of "of [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to Karelius to wonder whether the fräulein made a practice of confiding her problems to everyone as readily as in this instance . |
| 2 | Her tiredness fled before the immediate prospect of encountering her new employer . |
| 3 | The impulsive and irresponsible gesture had the effect of recovering her sense of identity , and now she sat waiting expectantly for Bicycle Thieves to begin . |
| 4 | Mona 's habit of using her guests ' nicknames indiscriminately could be confusing . |
| 5 | Helen 's touch trickled down his ribcage , a way of using her fingernails that meant almost-pain . |
| 6 | She was an attractive and popular figure with her large blue eyes and shock of thick hair , bobbed in the fashion she had set , as she also did that of using her surname alone . |
| 7 | ‘ So you agreed — even to the extent of using her name . ’ |
| 8 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 9 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 10 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 11 | He portrays Madeline and Mrs. Proudie as not very ‘ nice ’ — one too fond of using her femininity and the other hardly seeming to recognise it — which could be seen as a criticism of any woman who dared to question her accepted niche in society . |
| 12 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 13 | Their mother had been a fashion model before her marriage ; she had always regretted giving it up , and she had seen , in her daughters , the means of reliving her career , this time successfully . |
| 14 | She knew that Richard came from the castle and understood that his family was the family to which all the others deferred , but now instead of intimidating her Richard 's status seemed to impart a sense of protection . |
| 15 | Brooke-Rose resumed her scholarly work when she finished the novel , and Julia realizes in the end that while the ‘ frivolous ’ path precludes the ‘ serious ’ , the latter can provide a means of channelling her creative energies . |
| 16 | Sarah stopped in the act of fastening her stays around her vast body . |
| 17 | Psychologically Britain , having escaped occupation during the war , felt separated from Europe and still thought in terms of maintaining her independent status as a great power . |
| 18 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
| 19 | She entered upon the slow crucifixion of seeing her son take the lonely , sad and inevitable road to his cross . |
| 20 | No one in the sixteenth century made the mistake which was to become such a feature of later writings about her , of seeing her crimes or her innocence as a little domestic matter , locking her into a Scottish bedroom debate in which , as far as the outside world was concerned , only Elizabeth had an interest beyond the fleeting and casual . |
| 21 | Nellie would have liked Liam to have opened his next branch in New York , just to give her a chance of seeing her brothers and Noreen , but Liam had been adamant . |
| 22 | Anne left Germany in the expectation of seeing her family again before very long . |
| 23 | It was the first time Jess had been aware of seeing her standing . |
| 24 | She went on to catalogue a long history of disasters : from her mother dying when she was six years old , through to the latest traumas of seeing her cat killed by a car and being made redundant . |
| 25 | Virginia 's doctor , a self-important little man , had a patient once who lost her memory after the shock of seeing her husband fall to his death over a cliff . |
| 26 | She was determined not to give Richmann the satisfaction of seeing her cry , beg or show fear . |
| 27 | Kelly would feel the same way , she realised , experiencing a little spurt of pleasure at the prospect of seeing her friend soon … |
| 28 | And he 'd appeared suddenly and endearingly shy , as if embarrassed at the memory of seeing her naked in his bed the night before . |
| 29 | Eliza acquiesced , forsaking for the time being the prospect of seeing her brothers in Australia for the comfort and security of staying in Hobart , and yet sad to be losing the company of her husband . |
| 30 | On her daily trips to Edinburgh to try to pin Jake down , Shiona made a point of seeing her little sister , and she was delighted at how well she was looking , even though , as yet , she was n't back at school . |