Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming to that realisation so soon after her panic at drowning did n't seem to worry her as much as it should have done . |
| 2 | I could describe the run I took down our drive later that night , key in hand ; the nature of my flight upstairs , twelve skips at a time and the sight of my mother's-help , helping this particular mother to find her pretty Victorian loo with a tight black sheath dress covering her head — but I wo n't . |
| 3 | He had arrived , pale and markedly short of sleep , at seven-fifty and at eight-thirty had rung Penelope Huntley 's flat to find her barely awake , bad-tempered , vague and professing not to have made an appointment at all . |
| 4 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 5 | Seamstresses were put to work to increase her already adequate wardrobe but , as the days passed and the day of departure from Framlingham loomed close , she became increasingly petulant . |
| 6 | And although I found it hard to understand that you did n't want to meet her again that evening , I accepted that she was possibly ‘ not your type ’ . |
| 7 | She rang her friend and arranged to meet her early that evening . |
| 8 | It was a task that nagged at her , the mere thought of it causing a furrow to crease her normally smooth brow . |
| 9 | Marshall 's own father had a stroke while making the movie and the character Paula , who comes to visit her similarly stricken father , has obvious biographical resonance . |
| 10 | Her hand reached up to smooth her already immaculate hair before she let it drop abruptly when she saw the amusement on his face . |
| 11 | The waiter who 'd tried to pick her up that first morning was n't on duty . |
| 12 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 13 | With that in mind , her best suit stayed in the wardrobe , and she opted to cover her long shapely legs in a smart pair of trousers , added a pair of walking shoes , and topped it with a shirt and sweater . |
| 14 | Jehana had completed her remarks while there was still noise to cover her more explicit comments , but other guests had not . |
| 15 | ‘ A little bit of it was brought into the very first episode , the pilot , where I was allowed to play her slightly weird . |
| 16 | Running her hand over what was left of thick , dark hair that had been shaved to within half an inch of its life , and which served to enhance her astonishingly beautiful face , she smiled . |
| 17 | And er the corporation used to give her so many tickets to last her the week . |
| 18 | But , if he was n't going to give her more concrete help himself , she would have to find other allies . |
| 19 | At that time , he had offered to give her more extensive treatments — apparently , he found her a promising subject but she had n't had the cold kish to lay out . |
| 20 | The doctor refused to give her more sleeping tablets but scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers , which were increasingly prescribed for women like Clare , with symptoms of anxiety in stressful situations such as poverty , divorce , or bereavement ; women with marital problems and women who were out of work also found them helpful , although the pills did nothing to resolve the problem responsible for the initial anxiety . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , sir , I fear there is nothing you can do except what is done already , which is to keep Mrs Browning calm and quiet and endeavour to feed her nourishing food to give her back some strength . ’ |
| 22 | Then , to give her basically honest soul more to contend with , he went on , ‘ Naylor must be fairly serious about you , Leith , ’ and asked , ‘ How do you feel about him ? ’ |
| 23 | But as a woman he does n't want to give her too much credit . |
| 24 | For someone over seventy her descent of that great staircase was as good as a frolic ; her satchel swung wildly round merrily bumping her large bottom , her sensible suede shoes skippetty-hopped like the finest quality glass slippers , while her honest tweed skirt flirted up her legs in order to give her long beige knickers their first sight of the sunshine in quarter of a century . |
| 25 | I have told you , Rain , I was trying to put her somewhere safe and secret for her own safety . |
| 26 | I do n't believe it , paid all that money for a digital said look at the about stuff , at the end of the day they , he is five a side football stuff like that , had I 've been thinking about joining again , but I do n't really know what I 'm gon na do after Christmas now even Karen said she would n't mind joining but I tried , I managed to put her off that idea . |
| 27 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 28 | We used to mark her up special on the calendar ; and we took care to make a right good job of her : we took an extra lot of trouble with her shoes so we could keep her away as long as we could . |
| 29 | It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland . |
| 30 | When Black Annis howled , you could hear her five miles away and then even the poor people in their huts fastened skins across the window and put witch-herbs above it to keep her away safe . |