Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] her [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the wonderful night they had just shared only made her more determined than ever to go . |
| 2 | It was a sad thing to Beth , and one which only made her all the more determined to draw Matthew back into the family fold . |
| 3 | Working so closely together made her more aware of him , not less . |
| 4 | The memory of their night together haunted her so relentlessly that it was daylight before she fell into an uneasy , exhausted sleep . |
| 5 | The shape of his spine seemed to ask to be stroked , and his sharp intake of breath when she did so made her more aware suddenly of her own power to affect him . |
| 6 | ‘ You only met her yesterday morning and she was dead before dinner . ’ |
| 7 | Ca n't remember her name , I only met her once , but she 's an attractive girl . ’ |
| 8 | It was not that her therapist was possessed of unusual wisdom or insight and that Scarlet had learned from her : it was just that Scarlet had discerned her way of thought and her approach to the problems which beset the insecure and so found her entirely predictable . |
| 9 | Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day . |
| 10 | With her mind muzzy from sleep and cold , instinct alone turned her away from the Welsh Back . |
| 11 | Before that , Rachel had simply been my younger sister ; prettier , brighter and sweeter than me , but that had never really bothered me until that moment , when I realised that Jacob obviously loved her far more than he would ever love me . |
| 12 | Mike gently pulled her away from the sink and began washing up . |
| 13 | Slowly he released her , and gently covered her again . |
| 14 | My probation officer outside told me she 'd try to bring her up , but then she said it was too far and she could n't get the funds , so I only saw her twice in eight months . |
| 15 | Will-power alone kept her rigidly in place . |
| 16 | He suddenly remembered her carefully veiled amusement when he had mentioned the tinkers . |
| 17 | And that was why I only had her twice . |
| 18 | He claims he only pushed her away but she fell back onto the knife . |
| 19 | When he gently pushed her backwards and began undoing the buttons of her dress and cupped a hand over one of her small breasts she made no attempt to resist . |
| 20 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 21 | ‘ Take a sight test , ’ she advised tightly , and he flushed and apologised , which just made her more angry . |
| 22 | She did n't know what her mother was going to say when Wayne finally got her home ; she could only hope that things would improve along the way . |
| 23 | I wished I had got in first by telling her I no longer found her sexually attractive . |
| 24 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 25 | Gradually she straightened , gathered the parcel to her as though her instinct to protect it somehow protected her too . |
| 26 | THE Ice Maiden finally lost her cool this week . |
| 27 | Yeah , I just rang her right ? and she just goes , oh I ca n't force him to do anything . |
| 28 | Her beautiful face would have persuaded most men , including Troy if he had not been married to her , but he no longer loved her enough to agree to anything she wanted . |
| 29 | He just waved her away and turned his back on us , and while he was n't looking Mum whispered in Billy 's ear : ‘ Yer wunt ter keep that up fer yer bung ! ’ |
| 30 | What , when I went down for , so I called back later , about half an hour later and she was awake so I just took her then . |