Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] her [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I guessed , ’ he replied , and suddenly gave her a lop-sided grin — and all at once Leith discovered she was feeling most unexpectedly lighthearted . |
| 2 | The melodrama of it appealed to her sense of the ridiculous , and she hastily stifled a laugh as a youth passing inside gave her an odd look . |
| 3 | , but she told Helen , I just called her an old cow and she put the phoned down , well if she thought I said cow , well I do n't know but she went and used that . |
| 4 | Holtby 's forceful , witty articles and reviews soon gained her a high reputation as a journalist . |
| 5 | He once made her a beaded jacket so beautiful she told him she wanted to be buried in it . |
| 6 | As she smiled smugly — she 'd suspected he would n't — he deliberately threw her a frosty glance . |
| 7 | Her pregnancy thankfully gave her a little relief from the enormous output normally expected of her , and her stay with the Franklins was a welcome respite from the boredom and loneliness of being on her own , as she wrote on 9 January : |
| 8 | Annunziata , who had accepted the hug , made Julia get back into bed and then told her the whole story . |
| 9 | He leaned forward and slipped a hand into Nicola 's jacket pockets , then gave her a brief look of apology . |
| 10 | ‘ She must have wormed her way into Topaz 's confidence , maybe gave her a new recipe for ginger biscuits or something , who knows ? ’ |
| 11 | Her agent — perhaps he was n't the best in the world — never got her an American tour which , again , might have made all the difference . |
| 12 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |