Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] to her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously he was not going to speak and Jenna was embarrassed at being caught here , more embarrassed still at the idea of walking haughtily to her room without a word . |
| 2 | She was hardly aware of the car pulling up outside the house , or of going up to her bedroom , claiming that she was too exhausted to relax on the beach and enjoy the remainder of the sunshine . |
| 3 | Finn said that not being queer he could n't see that at all , and Lydia , instead of clinging grimly to her theory , agreed that it was probably all in the eye of the beholder . |
| 4 | Within a fortnight of coming back to her council house she woke one morning to find all the house 's utilities had failed . |
| 5 | It was an effort for Leonora to wish him goodnight , an even greater effort to walk upstairs slowly , instead of running headlong to her room , where she lay sleepless for hours , unable to get Penry Vaughan 's handsome , cynical face out of her mind . |