Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] her so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a little girl can not feel herself able to win the heart of her father , her own father who has known her so well and so long , and is tied to her by mutual blood-ties , I reasoned , then how can the young woman who comes later have any deep confidence in the power of her womanliness . |
| 2 | It surprised him a little ; he would not have thought her so easily affected by a man 's touch . |
| 3 | ‘ You should n't have kicked her so hard , ’ Jack said with a grin . |
| 4 | It seemed unworthy to snatch her face away and glare when he had treated her so well . |
| 5 | Gary , the hospital porter who 'd helped her out and whose friends had treated her so strangely . |
| 6 | Linda Darnell despised him because he had treated her so badly when making Fallen Angel and Forever Amber . |
| 7 | He wondered a little at what the unknown papa who had taught her so well was like , if this was the kind of game he had favoured . |
| 8 | Guy had given her so much … |
| 9 | She had never really forgotten any of it , of course , how could she forget something that had consumed her so completely , even if it had lasted such a short time ? |
| 10 | It seemed inconceivable that the man who had teased her so unforgivably in the morning had been so filled with compassionate understanding later in the same day . |
| 11 | She had n't even had the nerve to glare at Mitch when he had eyed her so appreciatively . |
| 12 | He suspected that perhaps McAllister , always so gallant in facing life , as he had now seen on several occasions , had tried to suppress , to crush down the awful memory of what had been done to her , had refused to give way to grief , to shed healing tears , until in his arms something had reminded her so strongly of what had passed and broken the barriers her will had erected . |
| 13 | Inside her thoughts were running around frantically , like the mouse her had called her so tauntingly . |
| 14 | She was so vulnerable to him that part of her was already accepting that defeat was inevitable , that only Luke could be the one to end their affair , but at the same time pride was demanding resistance , refusing to submit to the humiliation of a physical surrender to the man who had called her a liar , accused her of infidelity — the man who had hurt her so badly . |
| 15 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 16 | And suddenly , despite fitzAlan 's merciless vow of retribution , a fatalistic calmness descended on her , bringing a return of the cool impassivity that had served her so well in the past . |
| 17 | She screwed a pair of gold hoops into her earlobes , moistened her lips and pasted on the impersonal smile that had served her so well during her months on the catwalk . |
| 18 | And it struck her that he was indeed a son of this wild island , which she had glimpsed so far only briefly , yet which had struck her so vividly . |
| 19 | She jacked in with an anticipation she had n't felt since Friend had left her so far away on the Moon . |
| 20 | His hands which had clasped her so tightly eased their pressure , holding her now with the gentle touch of a friend . |
| 21 | It was worse than before , when he had taken her so powerfully into his arms and she had felt him thieve unresisting kisses from her lips , for now he was playing with her heart , not just her senses , and it was , she found , a vulnerable organ , halfway to belonging to him already . |
| 22 | Of course she had suspected there was something between them , when Victoria had questioned her so closely . |
| 23 | One by one , the blooms Luke Hunter had sent her so unthinkingly were reduced to a green herbal mulch and flushed down the drain . |
| 24 | A tiny part of her wanted to confront him with what he 'd done ; yet she knew she could n't do it , could n't bear looking into his sea-blue eyes , or at the lips which had kissed her so tenderly the night before , only to laugh with Marianne today as he shared with her the secrets Shannon had confided so trustingly — so blindly ! |
| 25 | Just thinking of the dark young man with Romany looks who had taken her virginity , and for a short time had loved her so passionately , did not serve her well enough . |
| 26 | Yet there had been those kisses pressed upon her own lips — and what about the embraces that had held her so closely against him ? |
| 27 | Ma had held her so tight the buttons of her dress had pressed into Anna 's chest until they hurt . |
| 28 | She knew precisely to what evidence he referred , had already experienced tactile proof of his arousal when he had held her so close to his warm naked body . |