Example sentences of "be [verb] her [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medics are keeping her under intensive care but say she is making satisfactory progress . |
| 2 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 3 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’ |
| 5 | Mutinously she flicked her gaze back to where he was surveying her in stony silence . |
| 6 | Her lungs heaving , she fell against a tree , then slowly slid down the trunk to sit at its foot , her arms wrapped tight round her updrawn knees in an effort to hold in the pain and shock that was robbing her of coherent thought . |
| 7 | Guy Sterne was eyeing her with amused curiosity . |
| 8 | The thing was to keep her as Brown Owl of the 2nd Longreen Pack . |
| 9 | The man was regarding her with natural surprise . |
| 10 | She looked at him warily to find that he was regarding her with unprecedented tenderness . |
| 11 | There was a white line around his mouth and he was watching her with undisguised lust , as if he wanted her and hated himself for being so human . |
| 12 | As a result of her prosperity , uncertain though it often appeared , Catalonia began to appear as the model and exemplar of mercantile and industrial civilization , a role that was to bring her into sharp conflict with traditional values and interests . |