Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , again , as though it were the most reasonable thing in the world , but she saw that her mother looked worried , and that doubtless Papa was behaving as he did because he had been worried about her , his darling , whom he had sent away from him , only to lose her in a foreign country — for that was what Britain was . |
| 3 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 4 | He had released her from his embrace , his hands merely holding her by the upper arms , and she sagged against him , trembling too violently to stand unaided , her knees buckling . |
| 5 | God knows , I have little enough to give her in a worldly sense . |
| 6 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 7 | ( h ) I have no evidence at all from her mother or from any other source that Miss T. 's following of some of the beliefs and some of the practices is so well thought out or deeply considered or sincerely held that the conviction is one which would necessarily lead her to an irrevocable refusal . |
| 8 | An influence strong enough to rob her of the natural exuberant self-confidence that had always been a central , unthinking part of her personality . |
| 9 | With Forster supporting his legs , Delaney used the forward motion of the boat to haul Nell from the water , finally landing her like a slippery black sea creature . |
| 10 | Her bedside book , often reread , was Anthony Trollope 's The Small House at Allington but tonight it could no longer translate her to the reassuring , comfortable , nostalgic world of Barsetshire , to croquet on Mrs Dale 's lawn and dinner at the squire 's table . |
| 11 | She looked at Molly as though she had just sentenced her to a lengthy and quite undeserved term of imprisonment . |
| 12 | This time Roman said nothing , just observed her with a brooding air of deliberation , for so long that she felt quite faint with nervous tension . |
| 13 | She sports a high-riding mini-skirt — which scarcely endears her to the strict Hasidic sect . |
| 14 | And with her jealousy came anger that he could so easily hold her in a close embrace while he still had Doreen in his system . |
| 15 | Her trip to Paris had already involved her in an unsolved crime , very possibly a murder , not to mention withholding evidence from the police . |
| 16 | To her astonishment , though , when the Dobermann had just held her in a gentle restraining grip , and no more than that , she could see that there were already small signs of bruising beginning to show on either side of her ankle . |
| 17 | The path to salvation is eventually shown her by the unwitting Messiah figure Hussein , an East African poet who speaks in metaphors and proverbs . |
| 18 | Whisked ‘ Andrew has always regarded her as a good mother but he can no longer turn a blind eye to her behaviour . |
| 19 | Looking back on the bitter , dangerous adventure he undertook in her service , years later , Hi Ridden still sees her in a romantic light : |
| 20 | Surrounded by Christmas decorations John said : ‘ She was in an awful state but I will always remember her as a lovable child . ’ |
| 21 | He was still holding her in the loose circle of his arms and she instantly bridled at the teasing . |
| 22 | ‘ But if that had been somebody else doing that to you … ’ she says softly , so that I can hardly hear her over the quiet thunder of the shower . |
| 23 | After the success of Carrots and of The Cuckoo Clock the following year , which at once established her as a leading writer for children , she was to write prolifically , sometimes , as in the 1880s and early 1890s , completing seven books in a year . |
| 24 | He looked so tall and reliable and gentle and wise , and always greeted her in a kindly way with a little bow and a murmur . |
| 25 | If she does , you never know , you could still find her at the old gym , this time in the Band . |
| 26 | Although her maximum grant is only £2,845 a year , the banks still see her as a good catch . |
| 27 | And she was only just gathering breath to protest when his lips eventually captured hers , their sweetness instantly filling her with a warm , deep pleasure . |
| 28 | The lift came to a halt and Roman practically lifted her into a quiet corridor with only one door opening from it . |
| 29 | To aid her in such a duty Nature has wisely provided her with the sexual appetite slightly developed ’ . |
| 30 | In her eyes the marriage was good , life with Robert was still exciting , he was ambitious and popular at court , and he also kept her in a high degree of affluence . |