Example sentences of "[verb] her [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt him naked between her thighs , felt the throb of his manhood against her slippery skin , and his long , expert fingers were still on the pulse that was taking her over , making her mad , driving her into wild darkness , and his voice said thickly , ‘ Rachel … |
| 2 | Well apparently she said stands her in good stead because |
| 3 | The local authority provided her with temporary accommodation . |
| 4 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 5 | Sunlight streamed through the arched windows , dusting her with pale gold as she hurried along the Aubusson carpet that stretched the length of the gallery . |
| 6 | He 'd lied about Tara , lied about Nicola Schreider … assured her she was n't his type then pursued her with consummate skill until his ego was satisfied that she was ripe for seduction … |
| 7 | ( 12 ) He rejoiced ( His joy ) to find her in good health . |
| 8 | Medics are keeping her under intensive care but say she is making satisfactory progress . |
| 9 | Anything which involved her in unnecessary enmeshment with Vitor d'Arcos would be sturdily fended off . |
| 10 | Luke regarded her with narrowed watchfulness . |
| 11 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 12 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 13 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 14 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 15 | Jake regarded her with superior amusement . |
| 16 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 17 | Along a route taking in the castles of Niddry , Cadzow and Craignethan she rallied sympathizers who still regarded her as rightful queen . |
| 18 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 19 | Mutinously she flicked her gaze back to where he was surveying her in stony silence . |
| 20 | After tea she unpacked her shabby and much-mended clothes ( no chance of getting stockings for Christmas now , unless Felicity had a practical fit and sent her some ! ) and wrote two letters : a polite little note to Miss Henry , thanking her for past kindness , and a lengthy epistle to Gay , telling her the gloomy news . |
| 21 | She would make Hari Morgan interested in her scheme for an emporium however much it cost her in lost pride for in . |
| 22 | For example when Pip meets Miss Haversham for the 1st time , Dickens describes her in immense detail . |
| 23 | His head went back and he laughed at her mutinous expression , the glint in his eyes deepening , before leaning forward again and addressing her with quiet insistence . |
| 24 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 25 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 26 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 27 | By the late 1880s , however , Japan had growing interests in mainland Asia , and there was a danger that Japan 's attempts to assert herself in Korea and in Manchuria would bring her into direct confrontation with the expanding Russian empire . |
| 28 | Her lungs heaving , she fell against a tree , then slowly slid down the trunk to sit at its foot , her arms wrapped tight round her updrawn knees in an effort to hold in the pain and shock that was robbing her of coherent thought . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's not that far gone , ’ Gus assured her with unexpected shrewdness . |
| 30 | ‘ You are looking at a genuinely reformed character , ’ he assured her with soft intensity , his gaze darkening as his eyes roved hungrily over her flushed cheeks , then down to the open neck of her checked blouse where her breasts were crushed against his chest . |