Example sentences of "her [verb] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had shaken her to see her own first name being written like that by an invisible hand . |
| 2 | It would have been an unnecessary and cruel blow for her to see her old home in its state of decay . |
| 3 | That fact had aroused her enough to make her display her feminine assets to best advantage . |
| 4 | It was quite unlike Ace to have left her to carry her own baggage , but of course he 'd had a hard race . |
| 5 | ‘ Sarella ? ’ he murmured , shifting his weight a little to enable her to continue her first tentative exploration . |
| 6 | After that she was installed ante post favourite for next season 's One Thousand Guineas but then a pulled muscle forced her to miss her next outing , the Lowther Stakes at York . |
| 7 | She had been forced to admit to herself that Liza had not inherited her own fortitude and patience , which had helped her to nurse her future husband back to relative health in a Kent hospital after he had been wounded in the leg during the battle of Arras in 1918 . |
| 8 | It was breathed against her lips , as they came up for air , and the erotic fire scorching through her made her dizzy with illicit longing . |
| 9 | The sense of whizzing through the snow with only hills and trees around her made her jubilant . |
| 10 | After that the conversation had gathered a startling momentum of statements , random guesses , admissions and had ended with her using her foster brother as a confidant — though now she regretted it . |
| 11 | Police hope someone may have seen her driving her distinctive renault car . |
| 12 | The man standing behind her grasped her left wrist and tucked the arm up behind her back ; his other hand went into her hair , drawing her backwards . |
| 13 | Earlier he ends chapter three with a hint of humour saying that many people are not what they seem despite the appearances and begs her to try her utmost not to be worse than she appears , concluding : Here the word " form " is ambiguous referring to his writing as well as to a life-style . |
| 14 | ‘ Three of them raped her , one first forced his hand into her at knifepoint and then made her lick her own blood . |
| 15 | Her training and her sense of self-survival told her to consolidate her sexual hold over him . |
| 16 | Being in the middle of Europe , Germany could not do this alone and she formed an alliance with Austria , enabling her to hide her hegemonial ambitions under the label ‘ Mitteleuropa ’ ( Central Europe ) . |
| 17 | It made her forget her past sorrows , but she knew they were waiting like wolves for their moment to attack . |
| 18 | are provided by a range of resources available to the learner , permitting her to find her own answers . |
| 19 | Tell her to find her own dybbuk , I snarl into Rainbow 's ear . |
| 20 | They showed , from time to time , a faint suspicious desire to force her to provide her non-existent credentials , but every time , just as their forces gathered for the attack , she would produce out of her hat some new and dazzling boyfriend , all ready to pay tribute to her elusive powers . |
| 21 | In addition , he was able to encourage her to tackle her other problems in a practical and sensible way . |
| 22 | Although she dislikes her father 's will — not to let her choose her own husband — she has no intention of rebelling against it . |
| 23 | Legally this entitled her to choose her own curators — which in this case meant her regent . |
| 24 | Rachaela allowed her to choose her own colours . |
| 25 | The sheer effrontery of it made her gulp her fiery mouthful unthinkingly , and for a moment she was doubly speechless . |
| 26 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 27 | They had not even let her keep her own loneliness but had intruded on it . |
| 28 | ‘ Never mind — I just wanted her to look her best . |
| 29 | It horrified her to hear her own voice screaming at her husband for his indolence but she could not help herself . |
| 30 | The thought of her twitching her last in a plastic hat , face covered with green mud , carried him through to their bedroom ( a room Elinor had taken to calling ‘ my ’ bedroom ) and shored him up against Maisie 's rendition of the second subject in ‘ Für Elise ’ . |