Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outline of the character seemed right for her youngest daughter but when producer Alan Hardy saw Kylie , it was she he chose . |
| 2 | Had she known more about healthy eating and what was right for her body , she might well have been able to prevent most of the problems that she experienced . |
| 3 | I took my child out of the school system because I did n't think the physio she had was right for her needs . |
| 4 | But it is she who has created an atmosphere in which it is possible for her most senior minister to be publicly rubbished while she escapes without blemish or stain . |
| 5 | Yet I vowed to do as much as possible for her comfort and happiness , to write to her and see her regularly , too . |
| 6 | Such dreams were defeated by the means she 'd first thought would make it possible for her baby to be returned to her . |
| 7 | He said that in her disdain for the laws of our land she had humiliated the honour of her family name ; there was no other course possible for her family to take . |
| 8 | It did n't seem possible for her love to deepen and grow , but it did . |
| 9 | She walked away down Milvain Street as fast as it was possible for her feet to hit the ground . |
| 10 | The honourable member has been on to say that his mother was upset about her appearance here , not least because she felt it was invading her privacy . |
| 11 | If I 'm right about her feelings for me , it will do no harm . |
| 12 | Glancing at him , she was tempted to tease him about the sugar he had borrowed earlier , but if she did that it would amount to a tacit admission that he was right about her behaviour . |
| 13 | How dared he make such judgements on such a brief acquaintance — and how mortifying that he was right about her inadequacies . |
| 14 | You 're right about her being tender-hearted , of course . |
| 15 | And your little dancer , Suzi Hoflin — you were quite right about her legs — she will make the whole thing look enchanting as a watersprite or a dragonfly instead of a ballet dancer in a mask . ’ |
| 16 | Naval intelligence , with the help of MI6 , immediately mounted a major operation against the Sverdlov and sent frogmen to inspect her hull in order to try to find out as much as possible about her underwater design , the shape of her propellers and any sonar equipment . |
| 17 | Margaret Olmer found her working-class foster parents in the Midlands very anxious to learn as much as possible about her background : |
| 18 | No they 're a bit you know long for her but they 're the same size as she was wearing Jean and the other ones were too narrow for her feet . |
| 19 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 20 | They were not selfish , and were genuinely sorry for her disappointment . |
| 21 | After a short silence , Kathleen took courage , feeling sorry for her sister . |
| 22 | Carrie got up and walked around the table , feeling suddenly sorry for her aggressive attitude towards him . |
| 23 | But she does not feel sorry for her friend Liz Headleand . |
| 24 | She was very sorry for her mistake and was therefore punishing herself by agreeing to marry him . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't bear her really , but I feel sorry for her husband . ’ |
| 26 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 27 | The others seemed to forget Heathcliff , but I noticed Catherine could not eat much , and I knew she was sorry for her friend . |
| 28 | Folly realised virtuously that she could even feel sorry for her ‘ rival ’ . |
| 29 | Sometimes she felt sorry for her uptight , upright friend . |
| 30 | and the other one was erm a mother of two and she said that even when she was younger she was always overweight and she could never sort of go out with anybody nice and she just settled for anybody sort of thing , I felt sorry for her husband , mind you saying this like , cos he looked a bit thick and er |