Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minutes earlier , one of the girls had claimed her 64-year-old grandfather had abused her . |
| 2 | Though back was hardly the word since she had dropped her English origins , as so many other things , along the littered roadway of her life . |
| 3 | Joy had surrounded her final hours . |
| 4 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 5 | Under the Conservatives , Britain has regained her rightful influence in the world . |
| 6 | His cool request bruised her very soul . |
| 7 | In a minute , they climbed into the big bed , Jessica having discarded her blue shirt , and cuddled to each other . |
| 8 | Why she should have discarded her confident pose of earlier in the evening he could not understand . |
| 9 | A knife wound had severed her jugular vein and her jaw was broken from a punch or a kick , the jury was told . |
| 10 | She has boldly paraded her stocky figure at charity fashion shows and at one time was famous for wielding equally chunky Havana cigars . |
| 11 | Given another chance , she would n't have let her stupid pride or injured dignity become a barrier between them . |
| 12 | ‘ That idiot Amanda ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ has let her long hair grow even longer during the hols and her mother has plaited it into pigtails . |
| 13 | She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all . |
| 14 | Thirty-five years old , she stood only five feet five and had let her dark hair grow long to change her appearance . |
| 15 | She had lain with Maggie beside the swimming pool and had let her whole body soak up the sun . |
| 16 | The last few years Sarah had practically suffocated her only daughter . |
| 17 | The overweight 45year-old was believed to have suffocated her 65-year-old victim during a furious row . |
| 18 | Travis dumped the firewood he had collected and eyed her dishevelled figure with a vague twist of his lips . |
| 19 | Kate had enjoyed her late lunch with Patrick Kelly very much . |
| 20 | She would have enjoyed her little trip to London . ’ |
| 21 | Natalie is dying from a rare form of cancer that has attacked her nervous system and is spreading to her bones . |
| 22 | No-one had penetrated her proud defences like this since her father . |
| 23 | The chill of fear and loneliness that had penetrated her very bones was suddenly consumed by the fury that engulfed her like a wave . |
| 24 | Ever since she had learned from Rose of his mother 's red hair , she had fondly permitted her idle daydream , her secret wishes , to grow and flower as if indeed they existed . |
| 25 | She knew she wore the scarf through a sense of guilt , a gesture to her family to say that she had n't forgotten her religious upbringing . |
| 26 | She had forgotten her memorised thank-you speech , but knew she could improvise . |
| 27 | Within several days she had forgotten her bad habit and her anxiety , and ceased to require an inducement to let someone climb on her back . |
| 28 | She had forgotten her brief attempt to enjoy it , and looked round at it with disgust . |
| 29 | Because of the strange happenings since she had arrived , Jenna had almost forgotten her original reason for this trip . |
| 30 | He made no attempt to present her to the other man , however , apparently so deep in thought that he seemed to have forgotten her very existence . |