Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 3 | God knows , I have little enough to give her in a worldly sense . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She looked at Molly as though she had just sentenced her to a lengthy and quite undeserved term of imprisonment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Whisked ‘ Andrew has always regarded her as a good mother but he can no longer turn a blind eye to her behaviour . |
| 10 | Looking back on the bitter , dangerous adventure he undertook in her service , years later , Hi Ridden still sees her in a romantic light : |
| 11 | Surrounded by Christmas decorations John said : ‘ She was in an awful state but I will always remember her as a lovable child . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although her maximum grant is only £2,845 a year , the banks still see her as a good catch . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The lift came to a halt and Roman practically lifted her into a quiet corridor with only one door opening from it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It cost me money though , I originally got her from a tutoring agency . |
| 19 | Meredith 's mouth was open beneath her mask as Lucenzo imperiously led her to a favoured seat , followed by a posse of attentive waiters . |
| 20 | Her fiancé has now reported her as a missing person , I believe . ’ |
| 21 | Miguel had really entrusted her with a great secret . |
| 22 | But her religious faith now took her in a new direction . |
| 23 | She had instigated a series of protracted lawsuits in her own right with authorities in Milan , Vienna and a German city , trying to reclaim a fortune supposedly left her by a defecting father . |
| 24 | There is an important point here : ancient accounts of Greek relations with Carthage often treat her as a barbarian power whose dealings with the Greeks were uniformly hostile . |
| 25 | She waited for him to continue speaking , but he simply studied her with a detached speculation that did nothing to soothe her ragged nerves . |
| 26 | Overcome with emotion , he led her out to meet some of the other prisoners in Algox' gilded cage : first , he mistily introduced her to a tall , thin nervy man with black brows knitted in a permanent frown . |
| 27 | The thought of presenting her naked behind to him so crudely filled her with a wild abandon . |
| 28 | Roy looked much more solid — the kind of man who would sit silently through what she had to say , listen to Purdy 's probing , then corner her with a single , well-informed comment . |
| 29 | Eventually he released her with what appeared to be reluctance , which was strange , she thought , because she would have expected a man with his inhibitions about women to have just brushed her mouth briefly and then dropped her like a glowing ember . |
| 30 | They sent her back to get another A-level , then welcomed her as a mature student at the ripe old age of 34 . |