Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted — needed him so much , in spite of everything , that it seemed as if her entire heart and soul were crying out to him . |
| 2 | She could feel nothing , as if her entire body were mummified in thick wads of flavourless chewing gum . |
| 3 | His lips merely brushed against hers , yet it was enough to make her feel as if her entire body was on fire . |
| 4 | He did not answer but just before she heard his bedroom door close she would swear that she heard a small chortle of laughter — as if her dry afterthought of a good morning had amused him . |
| 5 | She felt as if her own emotions had been tossed brutally into a whirlwind . |
| 6 | Awkwardly and delicately , as if her own arms and hands were unfamiliar tools , she gathered flowerpots on a cleared area of ledge , took a bucket outside and poured away the green standing slime . |
| 7 | She looked very white , and somehow surprised , as if her precious youth had never met such a threat before . |
| 8 | Then woke to the empty pillow beside hers ; body stretched in delicious ecstasy , as if her sweet saint had just that second ghosted away . |
| 9 | She shook her head , pointed to the baby first and then to Sycorax as if her maternal cares in both their cases meant she could not stir a moment from their side . |
| 10 | She had no reason to since her own flat is within walking distance . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't think , ’ said Betty , looking suspiciously at Lydia , as though wondering what she had been up to while her own attention had been elsewhere . |
| 12 | But she was relieved to see Patrick thrive at last now that Maggie had been weaned off gin , and when Rosa 's sixth baby arrived she helped with it , gaining experience for when her own time came . |
| 13 | She got the 7.15 bus , feeling an anxious as a mother who is n't home in time for when her little boy comes back from school . |