Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Alice gratefully laughed with her , feeling privileged and special in this intimacy with Pat that admitted her into important conspiracy .
2 What was it about Luke Hunter that reduced her to such gibbering incoherence ?
3 Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all .
4 She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive .
5 Building on the TV success that rocketed her to overnight fame , she is set to make TWO movies and is launching a promising pop career .
6 DUCHESS IN DISGRACE : Fergie cools off on the holiday that landed her in hot water
7 For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place .
8 It was a new and subtle torment , and she writhed beneath the thrill of his touch , feverishly arching against the eddying bands of tension that enticed her towards some undreamed-of zenith .
9 She could feel her own heart pounding against her ribs and there was a passionate urgency inside her that robbed her of all thought .
10 There she acquired the qualifications that took her in 1881 to Newnham College , Cambridge , where she got a first in the moral sciences tripos in 1884 , and a second in history in 1885 ; she also helped to form the Association of Assistant Mistresses .
11 He laughed , a warm , comfortable sound that reminded her of homely , rustic things like sleek cattle and woolly sheep grazing on a West Country hillside .
12 Each had used her ; none had discovered the essential quality that differentiated her from other lovers .
13 And as she pushed open the west door Miss Danziger was met by the scent of fennel , the six-foot stems of which towered over her from a huge stoneware pot , very different from the musty scent of piety that greeted her in English country churches .
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