Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [adv] [verb] her " in BNC.

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1 I could just barely hear her yells and shouts , a thin wailing carried on the wind .
2 I could almost always hear her voice in my ear throughout most of the sketches , but the subtlety of her nursery school teacher would often escape me .
3 But as the months became years she could no longer hide her feelings .
4 She could no longer feel her feet , but , glancing down at them , not too obviously for fear Richard should feel that he ought to do something about them , she saw that both of them were now bleeding .
5 She could no longer feel her legs .
6 She could no longer identify her own Englishness — it was lost under the thick veneer of assumed Italian ways and manners .
7 She was the last person living to speak the language of the native islanders , so it was a pity that she could no longer use her tongue , except now and then to rasp out a harsh fragment of a song .
8 She felt she could no longer trust her own ideas , the disagreements she had had with Clare , Bryony and Sue must be due to her own ignorance .
9 She could therefore only love her sister more that , when it came to choosing between this most important interview of her career or flying to her husband 's bedside , Cara was n't hesitating to fly to where love and instinct guided .
10 The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek .
11 She knew herself well enough to know that if he challenged her account in the latter mode she 'd almost certainly lose her temper with him , and then the atmosphere between them , which had been ( with the exception of his overtures ) so easy and undemanding , would be spoiled .
12 She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick .
13 She felt as though someone had dumped an enormous casket of jewels in her lap , and pleasurable though that was , she knew that in her heart she would much rather have her great-aunt alive , and the casket of treasure at some much later time in her own life .
14 She would never again hear her name called with those deep masculine Venezuelan tones — now that Juan was gone .
15 He could n't know how tempting the thought of laying down her burden was , but it would mean admitting guilt where there was none — to a man who would as soon see her sink as swim .
16 The anguish of being parted from her beloved sons William and Harry will be made even worse by the knowledge that she can no longer share her troubles with her father .
17 Her virtue is so important to her that she can more easily contemplate her brother sacrificing his life to save her virginity than that she might sacrifice herself for him .
18 Her poem ‘ Dorinda at her Glass ’ describes a faded beauty who can no longer marshall her charms .
19 He could remember that , although he could no longer recall her face .
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