Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | " Tea 's ready , " shouted Dad , and the pips for seven o'clock pricked into her mind . |
| 3 | After so much delay and frustration it was being driven at speed , and so zipped across her vision in one swift-moving moment . |
| 4 | Robbie had been hungry when she got home from work , but now she only toyed with her food . |
| 5 | The Princess — looking very thin again — merely toyed with her food and hardly uttered a word during the hour-long trip . |
| 6 | Benjamin tried his best to make light conversation but Mandeville and Southgate were withdrawn , Sir John Santerre lost in his own thoughts , Lady Beatrice looked anxious whilst the pale-faced Rachel merely toyed with her food . |
| 7 | She was held up briefly in the final when the in-form Sanchez-Vicario swept to a 4–1 lead ( and deservedly so ) and yet Martina , the grass court player supreme , merely drew on her experience , stepped up a gear , kept her nerve and won 5 games in a row to deflate the Spanish challenge . |
| 8 | There was no way they could avoid touching , and it only added to her torment of mind and spirit . |
| 9 | The woman did n't remove her arms from the curd , only nodded at her son and then at the bucket of peelings . |
| 10 | She was so impressed she apparently forgot about her appointment with Mrs Major , who was waiting patiently in the Savoy powder room . |
| 11 | Then she suddenly slapped at her apron pocket . |
| 12 | Finding that Mary Read was totally in control of all work out there , she swiftly gave in her notice . |
| 13 | She then literally jumped in her seat as a huge peal of thunder crashed directly overhead . |
| 14 | And that was just what they did , although Beth only picked at her food , her heart too full to eat . |
| 15 | Frau Nordern was free when Erika finally penetrated to her room , sitting at her desk behind a mound of reports . |
| 16 | the last sixteen days she just lived on her drip . |
| 17 | She joined in the training sessions , but soon found to her chagrin that in the personal fitness stakes he left her standing . |
| 18 | In some indefinable way he just added to her restlessness . |
| 19 | ‘ Some books , ’ she finally murmured into her teacup , while she tried quietly to increase the distance between her and the tea pourer . |
| 20 | She scarcely heard in her humiliation . |
| 21 | For several weeks after her wedding she had entertained the silly idea that James might look for her , but she was thankful that he never came even though he soon heard about her marriage to Nahum . |
| 22 | He just walked into her room , closed the door and came across to her , and Maggie stared at him wildly as he took her arm , drew her from the balcony and shut the french window , |
| 23 | When he finally walked past her room to go to his she was ashamed and shocked at the disappointment that raced through her . |
| 24 | He persistently called at her home , sent letters and made phone calls . |
| 25 | Before Folly could give way to the tears that threatened her , a commotion on the road outside broke through her melancholy . |
| 26 | I humoured the old lady , who soon went on her way . |
| 27 | She just looked through her pony 's ears at where she hoped he would land . |
| 28 | This was the year she finally emerged from her shell to win every round in a public relations battle she was determined should go her way . |
| 29 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 30 | — just sat with her mouth hanging open — like you , just now . ’ |