Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are sorry to lose her . |
| 2 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 3 | It had been pleasant to see her flitting about Moorlake , absorbed in her enterprise . |
| 4 | The astrologer had been right to warn her off , had been right that his heart was tied up elsewhere . |
| 5 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 6 | I 'm not sure Hawick was right for her and I 'd have been sorry to lose her , but that 's beside the point . |
| 7 | It has not been possible to exempt her from a third politics module , 7605 , but rather than delay her Stage II entry it has been agreed that she may ‘ trail ’ it in that stage , i.e. she will include it along with her advanced modules as 1 of the 2 basic modules which may also be counted . |
| 8 | Shelley did n't mind , but it would have been polite to let her know beforehand that she had to run two clinics instead of one . |
| 9 | He had been afraid to lay her in her cot because she had wind , a Manchester inquest heard yesterday . |
| 10 | As time had gone by , and Constance 's conversation had made clear the depth of her friendship with his great aunt , he had been afraid to tell her , fearing exactly the reaction he had now received . |
| 11 | No one in the Sudanese government had been willing to meet her , she said , and the Sudanese government had not responded to approaches made by the UK ambassador to Sudan , Allan Ramsay , in his capacity of chairman of the group of west European donor countries in Khartoum . |
| 12 | Her husband and colleague Dr E.A. Maury writes , ‘ She continues to show the way for those who have been willing to recognise her and will long do so for those who seek a new orientation for their moral and physical well-being ’ . |
| 13 | Vincent had looked up Sien and been dismayed to find her and the children in poor health and deplorable conditions . |
| 14 | Anne 's mother and father had been delighted to see her , plying her with tea and cake and endless conversation in the delightful setting of their Oxfordshire home . |
| 15 | It would have been impossible to get her to eat if there was the slightest bit of tension in her . |
| 16 | And later she said to Marilla , ‘ Perhaps you 're right to keep her . |
| 17 | Once that has happened you 're free to marry her again . ’ |
| 18 | I suppose you 're so besotted with Dawn that you 're afraid to tell her off . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She wants any damn thing you 're prepared to give her , and that 's a crying shame , because she deserves a hell of a lot more than that . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ My headmaster always used to say : ‘ Never sleep with a woman unless you 're prepared to marry her ! ' ’ |
| 21 | He goes , no , you 're not supposed to do it like that you 're supposed to get her on the floor and step on her head ! you 're not doing it right ! |
| 22 | But you 're welcome to move her if you wish . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But we are lucky to have her — she was given only a 50:50 chance of survival when she was born . ’ |
| 24 | An appeal for political asylum would have been likely to get her nowhere ; Alina was n't political , and never really had been . |
| 25 | She wondered if perhaps Time was behaving properly and that Johnny had visited the cottage , prowling through the rooms , as she found herself doing often enough , but had been unable to reach her . |
| 26 | ‘ Mummy , why do n't I look like Paula ? ’ she had asked , staring wretchedly at her five-year-old reflection in the mirror , but her mother , herself slightly bemused by the young beauty she had produced , had been unable to give her any satisfactory answer . |
| 27 | Yet it scorched him that he had been unable to give her that chance himself . |
| 28 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 29 | Her telephone number until that date is — 01.398.5819 — if you are unable to contact her please let Hilda Hewitt know details at the Office . |
| 30 | Marlin had not been pleased to know that one of her ex-lovers had attempted to play hero in his own apartment , and he would n't have been happy to find her making contact with Gentle at two in the morning . |