Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [adv] [verb] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the reason for this was that she was vindictively happy not to do anything , and it is the opinion of my sergeant here that she probably hated her husband almost as intensely as the murderer himself did . |
| 2 | But in the same column Beatrice complains that she nearly had her apartment burnt down after casually remarking that artists were rarely able to distinguish between their good work and their bad and therefore only critics could decide upon the value of a work . |
| 3 | There is also implicit criticism of John 's politically committed mother Rosalie ( Olympia Dukakis ) , so busy demonstrating for human rights that she shamefully neglects her son and fails to fill the fridge with enough food for him . |
| 4 | His face was an arrangement of harsh lines so discouraging that she almost lost her nerve and backed out . |
| 5 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 6 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 7 | This alienates Elizabeth even more , so that she now regards her job as an oasis in a desert of coping with Harry 's lack of direction . |
| 8 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 9 | She was thankful that she still wore her cloak . |
| 10 | She went over to the bed , realising with a shock that she still wore her kimono . |
| 11 | Silly really , because her family had no way of knowing that she still covered her head . |
| 12 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 13 | She was not going to start lecturing him now and , in any case , insisted that she never saw her role in life as a reformer . |
| 14 | Madame was our constant ; against the fact that she never changed her style or her outfit ( it was always the same dress , every night ) you could measure the changes in all the other faces and bodies that you spent the night scrutinising — faces subtly altered by a recent bitterness or passion , a body sagging under the pressure of losing a partner or made alert by the proximity of a new or potential one . |
| 15 | Her clothes were neat enough but her shoes were a giveaway , so old and worn under their polish that they almost telegraphed her need ; there was a story to be told here , Angelica thought , and Angelica was a sucker for an interesting story . |
| 16 | Max Klein 's wife , Dora , however , had recently begun to tolerate this prohibition with definite , if unexpressed , ill-grace , finding that it greatly restricted her opportunity of parading before the community Max 's newly acquired Ford motor-car . |
| 17 | For several seconds , as their gazes met and held , she was disturbingly aware of the strong , sun-bronzed column of his throat , the startlingly blue gaze which studied her with an intensity so vibrantly sexual that it almost took her breath away before he turned his attention to the American couple . |
| 18 | Standing there so close , she could smell the unmistakably male fragrance of him , a scent so heady that it almost made her sway towards him . |
| 19 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 20 | There is no reason to suppose that she and Mozart did not discuss his work together , and that he sometimes took her advice . |
| 21 | He relaxed her and told her that he quite appreciated her anxiety and fear , and the fact that she was experiencing so much pain . |
| 22 | She would blush furiously , her pale complexion flooding red so that he actually imagined her blood flowing in a hot tide to the surface of her flesh ; a thought he found exciting . |