Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few moments she had finished it all while Tom All Alone watched her with obvious delight . |
| 2 | So , while you may well have some trait or peculiarity about her that will give her a mark of distinction , this must be something that does not disqualify her from maximum general sympathy . |
| 3 | He had not seen her since early Friday morning . |
| 4 | Hollywood studio chiefs do not see her as prime material to star as tough-talking Det Chief Insp Jane Tennison . |
| 5 | She had aged in four years , lost whatever attraction she had ever had , and it made her miserable to realise this son would not remember her without grey hair . |
| 6 | He did n't react , just watched her with deep concern . |
| 7 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 8 | I 've just bathed her in cold water to get the temperature down cos she 's . |
| 9 | Her boobs may look like a couple of wrung-out teabags , but her granite stomach muscles somehow propel her into perfect proportion . |
| 10 | She wanted to be gone before the police arrived and Ayling did not press her with convincing enthusiasm . |
| 11 | And if you give her , just stick her to small amounts for the next couple of days |
| 12 | Along a route taking in the castles of Niddry , Cadzow and Craignethan she rallied sympathizers who still regarded her as rightful queen . |
| 13 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 14 | Yet she remained tense , trying to vanquish that unease which always attended her on transatlantic flights , despite a helpful air-sickness pill . |
| 15 | Lydia sat down on the turf which , in its dry springiness , promptly reminded her of pubic hair . |
| 16 | He paused , still watching her with impersonal interest . |
| 17 | Wirral Social Services Department temporarily placed her with foster parents and a case conference will take place this morning . |
| 18 | He also told her in great detail what kind of a woman Gina was . |
| 19 | Colleague also presented her with various gifts on behalf of friends and colleagues . |
| 20 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 21 | Gironella 's many versions of Velázquez 's Mariana similarly fragment her into different roles — queen , woman , icon , cadaver , carnival figure , victim , aggressor . |
| 22 | For instance , he took her to a newly opened Greek restaurant , and introduced her to the delights of something called Baklava Syrien , which , having a sweet tooth , she very much enjoyed — although he managed simultaneously to annoy her by various highly irritating remarks about the way in which West Indians eat Kit-e-Kat , and by a joke about a man in a Chinese restaurant who found a finger in his Chinese soup . |
| 23 | Using that famed double standard which made it acceptable for men to indulge in chance conquests , but which castigated women , Vitor would now associate her with casual sex and loose morals . |
| 24 | I do n't often see her in outdoor clothes — she wore a dark coat and skirt , a shantung blouse and a black straw hat . |
| 25 | The reminder , so sharp and painful , in the sudden appearance of that man now threw her into aching grief . |
| 26 | With her formidable industry , Mrs Thatcher , over more than a decade , acquired a grasp of EC detail which left her own experts trailing and , more important , often enabled her to wrong-foot hostile EC officials . |
| 27 | A TEENAGE mother banned from seeing her six-month-old baby girl after being charged with ill treating her in a cot at a London hospital ward , can now visit her under social services supervision . |
| 28 | He realized with a stab of regret he had never once seen her face clearly , and if he went back to seek her out he would n't know her for sure among the many daughters of the chief . |
| 29 | ‘ Most men think Cleo is a boy just because I do n't dress her in pink frocks . ’ |
| 30 | I have n't seen her for bloody ages . |