Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gallant compliments of the captain and his officers particularly had reminded her that the beauty so widely admired in her youth had not yet faded . |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 3 | Niall took his eyes from the road long enough to glance in her direction . |
| 4 | I could so easily have divided Charlie 's six per cent between Sal , Grace , and that awful Kitty , who had so obviously lied about her brother 's death . |
| 5 | And for the first time since he had so suddenly reappeared in her life Laura saw her husband 's shoulders slump , almost as if he was bearing the weight of his own brother 's horrific injuries . |
| 6 | She is perhaps best known for her book South Riding which was based locally . |
| 7 | It was sparsely furnished , for Anne had only just come into her inheritance , but it was newly decorated and clean . |
| 8 | Had her dream hero been so deeply embedded in her heart that her mind had never stopped believing in him ? |
| 9 | All these things Victoria did with a sense of duty so deeply buried in her psyche that no trace of condescension or obsequiousness marred the performance . |
| 10 | He felt a weight lifted when she had gone — he had so nearly fallen into her trap . |
| 11 | A black undertow dogged Eardley 's life , perhaps partly attributed to her father 's suicide when she was seven . |
| 12 | If this is the right Elizabeth , can we come much closer to him than through the loved child christened at Stratford ‘ Elizabeth , daughter of John Hall , gentleman ’ and her Bible , so tenderly inscribed by her husband ? |
| 13 | But it was starting to worry her that he could so openly refer to her running away from him , and since she had no intention of going into the ‘ whys ’ and ‘ wherefores ’ of that , and since she had made her apology for deceiving him — and had got off rather lightly , she had to admit — Fabia got to her feet . |
| 14 | There was also the fact that she had fair hair only partly hidden under her straw boater , a most peculiar hat in these parts . |
| 15 | Yet how could she possibly feel jealous over a man whom she had so long ago evicted from her heart ? |
| 16 | She was not to know that Tina , sticking to her principles , had long ago slept with her cousin Jarvis . |
| 17 | Catherine Lee is an artist who has surely not exhibited so extensively nor is so well known as her painter-husband , Sean Scully . |
| 18 | She stood there until he went quiet , stayed a few minutes longer to be certain and only then returned to her cupboard bedroom next to the servants ' loft . |
| 19 | She shut the door gently then went to her daughter 's room . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 21 | Melinda , who run the kitchen and bathroom design company Just So Design with her partner , is one of a growing number of people who are finding it easier , and more profitable , to manage their business from home . |
| 22 | Emma just like sprawled on her back and Scott with his back to the camera obviously just about to undo his flies and pork her . |
| 23 | The light was on and Phoebe was sitting on the bed with Maggie 's arms wrapped convulsively around her , her scarlet and sparkling body thus partly hidden from her grandmother . |
| 24 | Viking was gently warped into the landing place where she was soon securely moored with her bow overhanging the rocks . |
| 25 | Diana , wearing a pale blue fitted jacket and navy velvet skirt , giggled nervously as she was told exactly where to stand with her husband . |
| 26 | With the slightest of sighs , Maria put out a hand , her fingers still loosely curled into her palm . |
| 27 | But she was still only playing with her food like a bored baby . |
| 28 | He was an ungallant swine for deliberately not coming to her aid , but in truth he really wanted to see which of the likely lads , would dash forward . |
| 29 | Tonight it seemed to me that Mrs Browning had still not recovered from her fear , and I suggested that I should perhaps stay and see her into bed . |
| 30 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |