Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karen crawled into a sleeping bag at three o'clock , having last seen Jessica deep in conversation with a blonde-haired willowy type with beard and pipe who had pursued her earnestly for several hours . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd only met her once before that evening , but I feel we 'll be friends for life . ’ |
| 3 | She should have been more concerned , more anxious to know what he had to confide , since he had invited her here for that very purpose . |
| 4 | You 're being silly , she told herself ; a man as attractive as Luke Denner would be bound to have many women in his life , any number of girlfriends ; had n't she schooled herself into thinking this at least a hundred times — ever since that very first meeting , ever since he had dragged her unceremoniously into that small , chaste bedroom , ever since he had made love to her ? |
| 5 | She told them everything , right up to the fact that two of the notorious Felton brothers had actually brought her home to this very street , only to find there was no home to go to . |
| 6 | They had n't known her well at all , but for some inexplicable reason they seemed to take charge of the situation and to deal with it in a totally intuitive way . |
| 7 | Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant . |
| 8 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 9 | She began to wonder if the woman who had sent the box-message had tricked her here into this dead-end room . |
| 10 | It had n't really involved her personally at all . |
| 11 | And although , now , twenty years later , she could understand his hurt and confusion and desire for revenge , then it had hit her squarely in all the areas she was most vulnerable . |
| 12 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 13 | It had been the girl in the travel agency who had put her right about that ! |
| 14 | And now she had pierced her again in this sore spot . |