Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [prep] her [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was always against her burying herself there . |
| 2 | The beatings , the escapes , the fear which were still in her came out in her dreams . |
| 3 | By the time they returned to the table for the Christmas pudding John Harbour had moved and there was nowhere for her to sit except beside O'Hara . |
| 4 | In a secondary sort of way she knew that , beyond the opportunity to please and placate Maman , there was more for her to give if she should eat the horrible spinach . |
| 5 | It is enough for her to know that things are going badly for Mrs Thatcher and the Tory party ; the details of the Westland affair do not engage her interest . |
| 6 | It is so like her to ask if you may go and nurse her until the spring , like her self-indulgence — ’ |
| 7 | It was most unlike her to wake before it was time to get up . |
| 8 | It was exactly like her to go away and not get in touch with her parents . |
| 9 | It was so unlike her to slump that I felt a new alarm . |
| 10 | ( It was so unlike her to tease . ) |