Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 2 | Robyn turned the ignition over , realising he was gaining on her with remarkable speed , and the jeep roared into life . |
| 3 | He was simply laughing at her in that condescending way he had . |
| 4 | I want my home , she thought , and was appalled by her childishness ; but the tide of emotion was irresistible , surging through her like great waves . |
| 5 | " We 've been out looking for her since five , " said another man . |
| 6 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 7 | He could n't like living with her under these sort of conditions . |
| 8 | I thought she was really very nice and my opinion was formed from that one meeting with her by pure accident . |
| 9 | A vision of Colonel Beamish , listening to her with undisguised scepticism , loomed before her . |
| 10 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 11 | He was looking at her with faint amusement in his eyes , one eyebrow slightly raised , and she became aware that he was quite used to this reaction from women to his undoubted charisma . |
| 12 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 13 | He was looking at her with such tenderness and love that she thought she would faint from sheer happiness . |
| 14 | She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's . |
| 15 | Mrs Foster had told them Matthew was a bad-tempered boy , and she 'd certainly been right about the bad-tempered part , though this was no boy standing here looking at her with such menace . |
| 16 | He was looking at her with one eyebrow cocked . |
| 17 | ‘ He does n't , eh ? ’ said the tramp , who was looking at her with great interest . |
| 18 | He was looking at her with frank enjoyment that seemed untainted by any sort of guilt . |
| 19 | But Wolff was looking at her with frank and breathless admiration . |
| 20 | ‘ If he 's dead he 's no threat , ’ Plummer said , looking at her with cold eyes . |
| 21 | At other times , mostly when he smiled in that particular way of Tyler 's , leaning his head sideways and looking at her with incredible love in his sparkling green eyes , she found it unbelievably painful . |
| 22 | He was n't looking at her at all when he said this . |
| 23 | Ruth was looking at her at last with sharp , bright black eyes . |
| 24 | With Luke looking at her like that , a combination of desire and disgust hardening his features and his mouth somehow more richly sensual than it had looked before , Maria had no difficulty believing him . |
| 25 | She even had reservations about his admitted feelings about her — at least if he went on looking at her like that . |
| 26 | Why was he looking at her like that , with that little smile that suggested he knew something she did not ? |
| 27 | Why was Louise looking at her like that ? |
| 28 | Her voice trailed off when she saw Ricky looking at her in utter amazement . |
| 29 | And all the while , her son Richard was there to remind her … sleeping , waking , looking at her in that special way that was Tyler 's . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , still looking at her in that peculiar way , ‘ you really are rather a remarkable person . ’ |