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Example sentences of "[vb past] her [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	She turned to face me and gave me that vivid smile that transformed her already delightful face .
2	He grasped her suddenly nerveless fingers in his hand , sending her a smile with enough voltage to make her weak at the knees .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	He had never met anyone quite like Fenella and he found her rather intriguing .
6	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 .
7	Left alone , Leonora found her newly restored memory an unwelcome bedfellow .
8	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 .
9	I found her so refreshing — amusing and extrovert — and knew very quickly that we had something special . ’
10	Her have said and she went along , Bobby and they found her so brilliant
11	It was all very well , but she still did n't really understand why he found her so funny .
12	The duck with the hair was not unlike Betty , which was probably why Betty found her so attractive .
13	The sensitive souls found her more difficult to stomach .
14	Spending as much time as he could with Midge , Patrick found her extraordinarily rational .
15	I wished I had got in first by telling her I no longer found her sexually attractive .
16	He found her highly amusing .
17	Ivy found her very elegant and said of her ( I am told ) : ‘ She 's a young woman who looks as if she had never had to wash her gloves . ’
18	Mrs T also tried to work with her , but found her very vague .
19	Ludovico found her very attractive .
20	Robert , a 31 year old architectural technician , found her very attractive too , and felt that he definitely wanted to know her better .
21	Mr Paddy Ashdown , the Liberal and Democratic leader , said the other community members had ‘ not found her irritating only because they found her totally irrelevant . ’
22	She said she liked to think that the younger women looked on her as a mother , but of course they did n't : they found her faintly ridiculous , old-fashioned , gullible , naive .
23	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 .
24	Her cousin inspected her excellently manicured nails .
25	Then he bundled her now rosy body into her dry shirt and sat her down on the sleeping-bag to vigorously rub her hair dry .
26	They caused her very real distress .
27	Franca surveyed her long athletic bare legs and the smudge of the scar on her knee as she reached up to the high shelf of a cupboard .
28	So he told her how marvellous it was , and how misunderstood this wretched Frenchman was , and she bought it .
29	After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc .
30	She dreaded the inspector coming because he always asked a lot of questions , and told her how lucky she was that she would soon be able to go to a big place in London where there were lots of other girls and boys .