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 . |