Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy felt embarrassed and more than a little annoyed with her aunt . |
| 2 | Its function is basically to cover a woman 's hair and hide the shape of her breasts but it can be worn in a variety of ways , draped round the top half of her body and head , folded over her chest and hanging over her shoulders or loosely placed round her neck . |
| 3 | Constance was getting a little irritated with her friend . |
| 4 | ‘ Indeed , ’ he agreed , seeming a little irritated by her interruption , as if , as when he was giving a lecture , he preferred to hold the floor . |
| 5 | Among other foundations , Queen Margaret ( whose efforts on behalf of the Church were duly recognized in her canonization ) set up her own private chapel on the Castle Rock in Edinburgh , now the oldest surviving building in the city . |
| 6 | That was where Luch silently led Marion Maclean , slowly recovering from her shock during the four-mile walk . |
| 7 | And she went forward as if some irresistible force , slowly gathering behind her back , had suddenly erupted and hurled her against him . |
| 8 | Her husband Reggie was not a strong believer , and it was only at his persistent insistence that Joyce sought medical advice on the eye cancer which eventually led to her death . |
| 9 | Secretary Karen Haywood said she was relentlessly pursued by her boss Stephen Pointer . |
| 10 | With that she carried on walking with her father . |
| 11 | His eyes narrowed on her face , he put his cup down , stripped off his apron , and walked slowly to stand beside her chair so that she was forced to look up at him . |
| 12 | Although the young man and Mrs H. denied rectal intercourse , it is probable that this was the site that had served as a source of the infection , which had presumably originated with her husband over a year previously . |
| 13 | With the slightest of sighs , Maria put out a hand , her fingers still loosely curled into her palm . |
| 14 | The kindness and generosity of the owners has been especially welcomed by one of the readers who is mostly confined to her home . |
| 15 | There is Jean Shrimpton standing waif-like in a wrinkled raincoat on Tower Bridge ; or tugging at her oversized jumper , one arm gently loped over her head in the hallway of 91 Heigham Road . |
| 16 | " Tea 's ready , " shouted Dad , and the pips for seven o'clock pricked into her mind . |
| 17 | She had never liked them , perhaps taught by her mother 's obsessive fear . |
| 18 | Someone lent us a carrycot and Tanith slept in that to start with , until she was big enough to go into her cot . |
| 19 | Shannon felt the bed sink slightly as he sat down beside her , and suddenly realised to her horror that the towel she 'd wrapped about herself had slipped off as she slept . |
| 20 | Many portraits of Wordsworth and Coleridge exist , though unfortunately Dorothy was only painted in her dotage . |
| 21 | Close to , she discovered , Pete smelled of carbolic soap , a dreadful turn-off , and when he kissed her in the dark it was so wet and sloppy she longed only to search for her handkerchief and wipe her mouth dry . |
| 22 | After so much delay and frustration it was being driven at speed , and so zipped across her vision in one swift-moving moment . |
| 23 | Robbie had been hungry when she got home from work , but now she only toyed with her food . |
| 24 | Despite her ordeal the woman could only think of her boyfriend , but by the time police arrived to free him , he had wriggled free and managed to open the boot from the inside . |
| 25 | Laure 's distress was obviously compounded by her sister 's suicide . |
| 26 | Celia constantly refers to her mother 's drowning accident . |
| 27 | The Princess — looking very thin again — merely toyed with her food and hardly uttered a word during the hour-long trip . |
| 28 | Benjamin tried his best to make light conversation but Mandeville and Southgate were withdrawn , Sir John Santerre lost in his own thoughts , Lady Beatrice looked anxious whilst the pale-faced Rachel merely toyed with her food . |
| 29 | Her deportment , said to be ‘ like a queen ’ , was perhaps formed by her work at the dressmaking and millinery shop , Cranborne Alley , Leicester Square , to which she journeyed from Southwark , where her family was living . |
| 30 | She 'll need me some day and then she 'll be quick enough to write to her mother . |