Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 How could he hold her so tenderly one moment , only to treat her like this the next ?
2 Only get her off this estate now , you understand ?
3 I could not tell her — I could not hurt her in this way .
4 Surely he did not blame her for this ?
5 He believed she did not love him because he was like his father but he could not blame her for this because he knew he was unlovable .
6 I can not leave her in this bastille .
7 You ca n't just desert her like this . ’
8 When his solicitor had phoned to make the appointment , refusing to say why his client wished to see her , she had secretly prayed that fate might intervene and mercifully save her from this meeting .
9 He had an awful premonition he would always remember her like this — that he 'd never recall her cheerful buoyancy , her glowing smile when she had teased him .
10 4 ) ‘ My daughter met any other child at playgroup with a resounding thump if they touched ‘ her toy ’ ( because I think her older brother was still treating her to this type of jealousy at home ) .
11 He had once questioned her on this point , saying that a man of his age preferred younger women to be seen out with .
12 Also , by implication , Bukharin was challenging the views of Rosa Luxemburg , and all who since followed her in this matter , in her assumption that arms production is a field for the creation of surplus-value .
13 Her imagination , which often inconvenienced her in this way , began to suggest that , naturally , this remote valley would be the haunt of rabid , starving packs of feral dogs .
14 It was five long years since any man — this man — had intimately touched her like this ; five years in which she 'd held at bay these deep torrents of emotion , which would not now be denied .
15 She now felt so dangerously soporific that even the sneaking fear of Roman 's insidious effect on her could n't rouse her from this lovely torpor …
16 She therefore decides to marry Rodolpho , endangering her relationship with Eddie , but Miler does n't condemn her for this — she wants what 's best for everyone .
17 I did n't see her until this afternoon , and I could n't ask her then , not just before her operation .
18 Luke had n't mentioned company , she thought , but then he was n't expecting her at this ungodly hour — it was nearly eight already .
19 But today had shown her that she was n't immune to normal natural feelings , and even her imaginery passion for the handsome singer had n't protected her from this very real and very frightening feeling of genuine affection .
20 We ca n't leave her in this state for the doctor to examine ! ’
21 He decided that he could n't tell her about this .
22 The leaders of Britain 's main christian churches were there to greet her in this first city church devoted to united worship .
23 He had never seen her like this before and , despite himself , was glad of the moment .
24 I 've never seen her before this year !
25 She does n't know , of course ; I 've never told her of this tiny , precise pleasure of the night .
26 With all his good looks , his concentrated effort to win her , Paul had never affected her like this , never made her feel a fraction of what she felt now .
27 As her parting shot she told me never to phone her at this time of the night again .
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