Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over and over she asked the questions and became so demented by them that , though she trembled with indignation , she once more went into the Casa Guidi and , controlling herself as best she could , asked to see her old mistress . |
| 2 | Doctors failed to diagnose her fractured skull and sent her back to Turner Village with a note saying she should be kept under observation and a message to return if her condition changed . |
| 3 | Her eyes blazed back at him as she fought to contain her inner excitement . |
| 4 | Meredith tried to gather her confused thoughts together . |
| 5 | ‘ Why , Gina ? ’ he prompted again softly as she tried to arrange her jumbled thoughts to give a reason without betraying how deeply hurt she felt . |
| 6 | Alison Edwards , 20 , of West Glamorgan , fell into a coma after her heart stopped as doctors tried to repair her slashed face . |
| 7 | She tried to strangle her three-month-old daughter and then her lover arrived to finish the evil deed . |
| 8 | She tried to pull her scattered thoughts into some sort of order , but all she could do was wonder if the cold , level gaze he had given her betokened indifference or anger . |
| 9 | She rose to meet her future self . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'll make it , ’ Bodie said , and strained to catch her dying words . |
| 11 | Mrs Stych clutched her groceries more tightly to her bosom and tried to heave her high heels out of the roots of the Frizzell grass . |
| 12 | Then she examined what she could of her singed hair , licked her cut lip better and tried to smooth her broken nails . |
| 13 | She massaged her collarbone gingerly and tried to calm her ragged breathing . |
| 14 | When the little aircraft bumped to a halt on a grassy field outside Paris , Miss Stark , who had chosen to travel in the outside cockpit for the sheer hell of it , put her hands to her head and tried to calm her dishevelled hair . |
| 15 | Delia Sutherland stopped calling her unreturned greetings , tried to ignore the many pairs of sun-tired eyes , slow-moving behind glaucous panes , as they measured her progress past the wooden church , the school , the town hall , the fire house , the inn . |
| 16 | She was still telling herself she should not be put out by a kiss from a youngster who did not realize what he was doing , and she tried to nod her golden head with an appropriate display of adult wisdom , as she said : ‘ Yes , you 're wasting your time . |
| 17 | When Jean stopped doing her silly things ? |
| 18 | She fixed her burning eyes on the road ahead of her and tried to believe her own words . |
| 19 | I tried to match her Californian accent . |
| 20 | She tried to keep her blurred eyes focused on the sky . |
| 21 | Caught off balance , Kate tried to keep her teetering emotions on an even keel as she strove to find the right words to explain what had happened in Jason 's office . |
| 22 | With a small smile that proved he knew very well what she had been thinking , he went out , and she tried to relax her tense muscles . |
| 23 | Assistant editor Helen Barnett tried to relax her tense shoulder and back muscles by trying three different massagers . |
| 24 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 25 | A YOUNG nurse died because doctors tried to save her good looks , an inquest heard . |
| 26 | A YOUNG nurse died because doctors tried to save her good looks , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 27 | As Carolyn got better , she stopped hearing her other story . |
| 28 | Kate tried to control her unruly emotions as Jason continued to talk technicalities to her . |
| 29 | With every letter she tried to top her last efforts and woo him with wit . |
| 30 | She tried to regroup her scattered brain tissue , pulling back pieces of her mind before they were lost for ever . |