Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
2 | The week of that first production of Luxembourg , Karl had been absolutely beastly to her — really hurtful about her performance as Juliette which , as she was desperately saving her voice for the other productions , she tended to talk her way through . |
3 | She 'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half . |
4 | Still fully clothed , he stretched out beside her and drew her close , fitting her soft body to his hard one , making her ache for the complete union , where two separate entities merged into one and nothing and nobody else existed . |
5 | Sheldukher stared down at her suddenly , as if registering her presence for the first time . |
6 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |
7 | Beth never took her eyes off the little group ; Cissie , who was now a young lady of exceptional prettiness and who was hugging her brother for the umpteenth time ; and Beth 's own son Richard … now six years old and growing more like Tyler every day ; and David , a quiet man , a man who was too gentle , a man still dominated by the monster who had raised him . |