Example sentences of "[vb past] her very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Mrs T also tried to work with her , but found her very vague . |
| 3 | Ludovico found her very attractive . |
| 4 | Robert , a 31 year old architectural technician , found her very attractive too , and felt that he definitely wanted to know her better . |
| 5 | They caused her very real distress . |
| 6 | Bienvida had red hair when she was born but later on it turned dark , so that told her very little . |
| 7 | As Melanie inspected the dog , the front door flew open with a whirring sound that startled her very much . |
| 8 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 9 | She also was pregnant , but she bore her troubles with dignity and we all admired her very much . |
| 10 | She licked her very dry lips and refused to succumb to the temptation of another drink . |
| 11 | Glancing down , his gaze encompassed her very odd person . |
| 12 | In a world where so much was staged artificially it was like a breath of fresh air and Harriet experienced her very own glow of excitement and triumph . |
| 13 | It made her very effective . ’ |
| 14 | She had to obey her father , although it made her very sad . |
| 15 | There was a lot about Nona that made her very vulnerable indeed , and which she seemed unaware of . |
| 16 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 17 | It made her very uneasy having hir in the same building as Ari at such a dangerous and important time . |
| 18 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 19 | It made her very aware that he did n't want to give up any information about himself … and especially not to her . |
| 20 | ‘ And us fixing a date for our wedding made her very happy , too , ’ Vitor murmured . |
| 21 | ( This amused her very much . ) |
| 22 | Hilda Machin settled herself down on the chair , smiling happily and looking guilelessly at Mr Kronweiser who , if the truth were known , amused her very much . |
| 23 | He told us he hoped that Catherine would recover , if we kept her very quiet . |
| 24 | But she was clever , Coffin thought her very clever , and he was training her . |
| 25 | His glance raked her from head to foot before he even moved further and she could see that he thought her very decadent to be in her housecoat at this time in the morning . |
| 26 | Why she stayed on waiting for that phone call Leith could n't have said , though she thought her very large concern about paying her mortgage had something to do with it . |
| 27 | The bathroom depressed her very much . |
| 28 | her bo , not very many there , because her mother had her very late in life |
| 29 | He held her very close . |
| 30 | He held her very close , and with hands and lips calmed and soothed . |