Example sentences of "her [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He it was , that Monday , who plucked up courage to approach her , huffing and puffing around her with the slightly intimidating bonhomie of a young St Bernard . |
| 2 | Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face . |
| 3 | Despite his casual dress of jeans and shirt , there was still an air of sophistication about him that was in sharp variance to those around him , and she cursed Donal again for his stupid sense of humour because it now put her in the most ridiculous position . |
| 4 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 5 | He was theatrical by nature , and he lavished it all on her , complimenting her in the most exuberant terms , telling her that her engagement had broken his heart irreparably . |
| 6 | The Tasmanian Law Reform Commission expressed the matter even more forcefully : ‘ The present focus on consent virtually demands that a defence counsel who is doing his job properly must challenge the sexual conduct and personal integrity of the complainant and attempt to present her in the most unfavourable light . ’ |
| 7 | If I am right about the masculine character of the women pioneers of agriculture we can see that the fact that the followers of the Phrygian mother-goddess castrated themselves is a nice illustration of Freud 's idea of the ‘ shadow of the object falling on the ego ’ : the ultimate reproach against the new agricultural mother was that she was masculine , and therefore the self-punishment came to fit her crime while confirming the identification with her in the most exact way possible . |
| 8 | Tears rose haphazardly to her eyes as she watched the sequence of silent film Alexei showed her in the now darkened room . |
| 9 | The rage incited her to the most positive and extreme action . |
| 10 | But there again , he never sent her to the really big houses because , as he said , if there was anything going , the servants would have had the first pick . |
| 11 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 12 | As the doors opened she stepped out and glanced quickly round her at the tastefully lavish five-star décor . |
| 13 | Now she was waiting for the food to reach her at the rapidly expanding camp . |