Example sentences of "what [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I wonder what got her up then ? |
| 2 | What haunted her was the way he had kissed her — and how she had been unable to do anything but respond ! |
| 3 | What led her to make the break ? |
| 4 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 5 | He wondered what made her laugh . |
| 6 | What made her tick ? |
| 7 | I want to know what made her stay in the face of my behaviour , what made her help his sister when anyone else would have left her to look a fright on her wedding day … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And what made her run his mother in to Dublin to change her wedding outfit , a woman , moreover , who 'd blackened the character of her beloved grandfather . ’ |
| 9 | She did n't know what made her say it but she felt proud , a lovely , running excitement went through her , like water . |
| 10 | Nor could she have said what made her so positive about this assumption that had become a fixture in her head — unless it was the fact of Silas 's previous near engagement to Doreen . |
| 11 | ‘ That was what made her stand out . ’ |
| 12 | But what made her feel even guiltier was the simple fact that , somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could n't imagine Arnie lying with her in the big blue bed . |
| 13 | Was n't at all sure that she wanted him to have learned anything about her that went to add up to what made her tick . |
| 14 | What made her say that I wonder . |
| 15 | What concerned her did not truly concern him , however much she sought to involve him . |
| 16 | What concerned her was the strange attitude of Gioella . |
| 17 | But what concerned her even more was that the Notice had shown the meeting would include two members of the Secret Intelligence Service . |
| 18 | But that was not what concerned her . |
| 19 | What concerned her was Kirsty . |
| 20 | ‘ What upset her ? ’ |
| 21 | But what upset her particularly was the last sentence : ‘ I should go and work for a week in one of my shops but — though I could even sleep on the factory floor — I ca n't understand people working in shops . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ What stopped her ? ’ |
| 23 | It should have been me what found her really . ’ |
| 24 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 25 | But of course that was what hooked her . |
| 26 | What mystified her was how any firm could employ such a gorgon to promote their products . |
| 27 | Having tracked down Amy , we asked her to explain what attracted her to ‘ Believing ’ : ‘ I 'm obsessed with flamenco at the moment and that fitted with the ‘ Believing ’ references to exotic South American styles . ’ |
| 28 | What pleased her enormously was that over these garments Tina actually wore one of the patchwork aprons she had made and given her years before , with little hope of their ever being used . |
| 29 | And now what pleased her was loving the doll , and sewing and embroidering baby clothes , and looking after Dr Neil — particularly looking after Dr Neil — and what would Mama say to that ? |
| 30 | Parveen 's colleagues say they would n't have dared to retaliate , although they can understand what drove her to do so . |