Example sentences of "of her [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part , this was a consequence of her appointing some ministers who were sceptical of her economic strategy . |
| 2 | The young woman seemed to know what she was talking about , and Shelley suddenly felt sorry for her , in spite of her flashing Spanish beauty . |
| 3 | During their subsequent separation and his long sojourn in an English prison , where he is saved from the gallows only by a last-minute reprieve , his vision of her becomes intense and idealised . |
| 4 | They did n't like the idea of her taking this trip . |
| 5 | His memory of her became dulled and blocked , a stalemate of the imagination that began to have the taste of sloth and suicide , like the evil torpor that can ensue from spending night after night without a dream . |
| 6 | How naïve of her to let Roman de Sciorto 's powerful charm override her normal caution ! |
| 7 | It was unjust of her to disregard those thumb-sucking years in which Lily had held her close . |
| 8 | It was wicked of her to take all the love without paying for it . |
| 9 | In Cork her religious enthusiasm and the power of her preaching alarmed friends . |
| 10 | Within seconds of her uttering those words , 11-year-old Allibar reared its head back and collapsed to the ground with a massive coronary . |
| 11 | Judy was throwing a ball to Mandy Maddison , who was learning to catch a ball with the left hand as part of her Keep Fit Challenge . |
| 12 | Every part of her felt open to him , wanting him , needing the fulfilment only he could give . |
| 13 | He suddenly remembered writing cheery lewd limericks with her on a train to Yugoslavia , and worrying about the possibility of her getting pregnant there with the child he longed for , bothering about the bad doctors and the heat . |
| 14 | ‘ There was no question of her getting preferential treatment because she is the Secretary of State 's mother . |
| 15 | She felt certain then that whether Naylor called her back to the new extension to tell her to deny that she was engaged to him or not , she would without fail , before five o'clock that day , be summoned to account for Travis 's unexpected easy acceptance of her getting engaged to someone else . |
| 16 | That 's very nice of her to write that . |
| 17 | This was one aspect of her following human emotions where they took her , into many depths and intensities , that has yet hardly had a place in a novel . |
| 18 | In front of her stood twelve women . |
| 19 | He titillated himself with thoughts of her applying that cruelty to him . |
| 20 | ‘ Would you rather wait for the other ladies ? ’ he ventured , obviously torn between his duty and the thought of her sitting alone in such rowdy company for several minutes . |
| 21 | It was nice to know he felt good about her being here but she wanted more than that — but how selfish of her to expect any more . |
| 22 | It is not recommended to exercise her in this condition , because of the unwelcomed attention she will receive , and the risk of her becoming pregnant . |
| 23 | But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned . |
| 24 | LITTLE Laura Davies , who is critically ill following rejection of her transplanted small intestine , was last night facing a massive new operation , to replace her entire digestive system . |