Example sentences of "[verb] her [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travis looked surprised , and that aggravated her as much as his reply . |
| 2 | Dazed , overwhelmed with the need and intensity that had sizzled between them since they first met , Rachel did less than resist ; she actively acquiesced , arching her body against his as he slid on to the bed on top of her , and his hoarsely muttered words were bitter-sweet to her ears as he renewed the kiss , his heart thudding above her as his hands began to stroke and explore her passionately responsive body . |
| 3 | He 'd caught her completely off-guard . |
| 4 | She understood now that men could like her and want her as much as Aileen . |
| 5 | She turned to face me and gave me that vivid smile that transformed her already delightful face . |
| 6 | Always used to a high energy level , she had found that the need over the last few months to pace herself , rest , keep calm , was driving her slowly insane . |
| 7 | He grasped her suddenly nerveless fingers in his hand , sending her a smile with enough voltage to make her weak at the knees . |
| 8 | Coming to that realisation so soon after her panic at drowning did n't seem to worry her as much as it should have done . |
| 9 | He visited her there one evening , Bishop Jon and Eochaid in tow , and the three men talked without ceasing , before food and through food and after it , Bishop Jon making notes in his own hand on a slate with a stylus that squealed . |
| 10 | Mrs Browning had teased her only that summer for becoming more Italian than English and there was some truth in it . |
| 11 | She breaks through it by using her head like a pneumatic drill , pressing her hard sharp jaws on to the soil and vibrating it by trembling her wing muscles . |
| 12 | He 'd picked her up first ? ’ |
| 13 | I had picked her up first , before going to the salon . |
| 14 | He had picked her up half-conscious , and while he carried her to the hospital she had clung to him with a pitiful force . |
| 15 | In between the exterior locations Hannah sat by the coal fire in her kitchen , and by the illumination cast by an oil lamp , as the camera turned , she described her incredibly spartan lifestyle . |
| 16 | I could describe the run I took down our drive later that night , key in hand ; the nature of my flight upstairs , twelve skips at a time and the sight of my mother's-help , helping this particular mother to find her pretty Victorian loo with a tight black sheath dress covering her head — but I wo n't . |
| 17 | He had arrived , pale and markedly short of sleep , at seven-fifty and at eight-thirty had rung Penelope Huntley 's flat to find her barely awake , bad-tempered , vague and professing not to have made an appointment at all . |
| 18 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 19 | I 'm sure you ca n't be keeping her so busy that she ca n't spare me an hour or so . ’ |
| 20 | Even her tremendously high spirits were lowered by its regime . |
| 21 | At other times her minimalist approach seems vaguely stilted , and even her immensely watchable face ca n't carry the day . |
| 22 | Even her very first day was spent bent over her desk , scribbling and sketching furiously . |
| 23 | Even her fiercely independent streak appealed to him , excited him , challenged him to tame her . |
| 24 | She had a very strong hull for her type , was capable of about thirty knots with her twin Sabre engines , and I found her surprisingly sea-kindly . |
| 25 | He had never met anyone quite like Fenella and he found her rather intriguing . |
| 26 | The night before , Cati had fallen asleep sitting with her mother and Rosa on the balcony in the cool of the evening ; when her mother had given her a gentle push to rouse her ; she found her slightly feverish and put her to bed . |
| 27 | Left alone , Leonora found her newly restored memory an unwelcome bedfellow . |
| 28 | Then the cops did do something but I do n't know if it was a tip-off or dumb luck : they raided some farmhouse up in Tuscany and found her still alive . |
| 29 | I found her so refreshing — amusing and extrovert — and knew very quickly that we had something special . ’ |
| 30 | Her have said and she went along , Bobby and they found her so brilliant |