Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now he had learnt that Pete Foster , the man being investigated for murder and fraud in the Docks , a hard man , was terrified of his old mother and had kept his successful career in crime hidden from her for sixteen years . |
| 2 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
| 3 | After about half an hour a girl came out of the gate , her tartan shawl held round her with rough , reddened hands . |
| 4 | She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's . |
| 5 | The most vivid memory I have of that Christmas Day is of Shanti , now almost two years old , walking round and round the long dining-room table , pulling a little toy engine given to her by one of the boys , round and round , smiling and smiling . |
| 6 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 7 | He rose above her and looked at her , his gaze moving over her with slow , lingering care , tasting her with his eyes as his hands and mouth had tasted her parted lips , her upthrust breasts , her parted thighs . |
| 8 | One career wife spoke about her exasperation when her husband listened to her with half an ear as he watched television . |
| 9 | Now , with the news that Rosa is running London this weekend , there is just that slight question mark hanging over her in Olympic year to make things interesting . |
| 10 | Suddenly , Damian turned his dark head to look at her with narrowed eyes . |
| 11 | The creature turned its head to look at her with slit-pupilled eyes the size of saucers . |
| 12 | Erm but , at it at its worst I mean the worst publicity followed this this incident of a an elderly lady having her fingers broken and and money stolen off her by some some lads in their I do n't know late early teens I think . |
| 13 | She felt the bones give and moved away quickly , coughing now , the smoke getting to her at last . |
| 14 | Her father looked at her in open admiration . |
| 15 | as if she were not sufficiently torn inside already by the dread news thrown at her by old Lady Usk . |
| 16 | The spiritual love given to her from all the helpers was very apparent . |
| 17 | The word came from her with sudden and frightening force and it seemed to Creggan as if it was a burden he would carry always in this place . |
| 18 | It was more years than she cared to remember since she had last seen a man stare at her in frank admiration . |
| 19 | So she could not let her go alone but must stand in the crowds being shoved , the smell of greasy food and litter breathed over her in this hot air , and the constant blare of noise grinding at her . |
| 20 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 21 | The man looked at her with sudden amusement as a penny dropped . |
| 22 | The man stared at her in stunned silence , his chest rising and falling with some kind of agitation . |
| 23 | — Lament sang to her in old familiar melodies , and Tallis recognized the words and she felt chill |
| 24 | After this she began to hear strange sounds and melodies ‘ that she could not well hear what a man said to her at that time , unless he spoke the louder . |
| 25 | The way she was looking right now , pink-cheeked and with her hair falling about her in tousled , tangled curls , it would take a miracle to transform her into elegant and sophisticated . |
| 26 | Maybe , she thought bitterly , if she had asked a few questions she might have uncovered the truth about him for herself , instead of having the information relayed to her by one of her friends . |
| 27 | The Doctor turned to her at last . |
| 28 | The Doctor looked at her with pained eyes . |
| 29 | The riverbank rushed towards her with dizzying speed as the stiffness in her legs caused her stumble and lose her balance on the uneven ground . |
| 30 | She died before the case came to trial but a written statement signed by her on 16 December 1985 was received into evidence under the Civil Evidence Act 1968 . |