Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] her [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had her concentrated reading of those letters all afternoon made her unduly pernickety ? |
| 2 | Isabel wiped her suddenly damp hands on her gown . |
| 3 | I would say that on reception is the one that probably needs more support let her down all the rest of it . |
| 4 | Spending as much time as he could with Midge , Patrick found her extraordinarily rational . |
| 5 | The gleam in his eyes made her uncomfortably certain he knew perfectly well what she 'd just been thinking . |
| 6 | ‘ And us fixing a date for our wedding made her very happy , too , ’ Vitor murmured . |
| 7 | A mentally disturbed 15 year old was fully capable of understanding the implications of psychiatric treatment on her " good " days but her mental condition rendered her totally incapable at other times . |
| 8 | His words brought her up short . |
| 9 | Their infectious Irish rhythms and lilting harmonies captivated the house , but when the little pocket diva sang her solo this time , she ‘ wowed ’ them , she ‘ knocked them cold ’ , she was ‘ sensational ’ , or whatever other cliche theatre people use to describe a successful performance . |
| 10 | If Tiggy and Issy love her as much as Iphy and Missy and Chryssy did , you will have a very happy schoolroom . ’ |
| 11 | Brooke-Rose used her facility for light , clever story-telling as a sort of sugar-coating with which to induce readers to swallow her less palatable conceptual material , but in most cases the pill was never digested because readers were accustomed to ‘ serious ’ novels being concerned with morality . |
| 12 | ‘ Goodnight , Rob MacDonald , ’ she whispered , and he reached for her and kissed her gently , the sadness in his eyes making her suddenly afraid . |
| 13 | His eyes raked her still half-naked limbs and fell on the sheet beneath her . |
| 14 | Wickham asked her about two aspects : the whereabouts of her father 's list of computer codes and the ownership of the keys which had been loaned to Ruby Dobby . |
| 15 | Pity made her more friendly towards him than she might otherwise have been . |
| 16 | Did fitzAlan hate her so much , then ? she wondered . |
| 17 | Ivy found her very elegant and said of her ( I am told ) : ‘ She 's a young woman who looks as if she had never had to wash her gloves . ’ |
| 18 | Franca surveyed her long athletic bare legs and the smudge of the scar on her knee as she reached up to the high shelf of a cupboard . |
| 19 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 20 | Glancing down , his gaze encompassed her very odd person . |
| 21 | Sam and Camille thought her hopelessly wet . |
| 22 | The other girl tossed her pretty dark hair back from her face and said casually , ‘ It is not my business . ’ |
| 23 | Susan made him climb down from the organ and walk over to her , but his uncoordinated limbs reminded her too much of the zombies in Corin Santangelo 's horror Dream Eyeball Gougers from Italy . |
| 24 | She had n't even known herself where she would be staying until she had walked out of the station the day before and asked a taxi-driver to take her somewhere clean and as cheap as possible . |
| 25 | When he wrote home to Jane telling her how wonderful was his new independent life style , she followed . |
| 26 | Jehana had completed her remarks while there was still noise to cover her more explicit comments , but other guests had not . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ludovico found her very attractive . |
| 29 | No , she would not want to change that … only to have it go on , with Tyler wanting her as much as she wanted him . |
| 30 | They were screaming for Lorna , and Robert handed her out first , then steadied Jo on her unaccustomed high heels . |