Example sentences of "[verb] her at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't recognise her at first , ’ Lily told her . |
| 2 | She felt a warm rush of gratitude for his sensitivity as he kissed and played with her in a teasing , light-hearted way which both excited and disarmed her at first . |
| 3 | Franks flashed him a look of irritation , as if it was disloyal of the picture editor to criticise Nicola now that she was dead , indeed criticise her at all . |
| 4 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 5 | He is deeply insecure and does n't expect love , never having received it before , yet he deals with Miranda 's death so matter-of-factly , hardly seeming upset at all , that he ca n't have cared for her very much as an individual , which is not surprising as he really does n't know her at all well . |
| 6 | Did n't know her at all . |
| 7 | I did n't know her at all , other than to see her go into the house and out of the house . |
| 8 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 9 | Erm what did we do yes , well we went , I , I went to Isobel at what , I found her at three , we had . |
| 10 | I helped her at first but it was a mistake . ’ |
| 11 | Faye had started painting her at eleven and was supposed to have had a blood glucose test at noon . |
| 12 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 13 | A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound . |
| 14 | Had Nigel noticed she 'd left , or had n't he missed her at all ? |
| 15 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 16 | Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all . |
| 17 | Michael might come to visit her at any time . |
| 18 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
| 19 | How happy it would have made her at any other time . |
| 20 | Several boys had asked her to dance but she had refused them all , afraid she might miss her chance with Pete , but he seemed not to have noticed her at all in spite of Louise 's dress . |
| 21 | ‘ I am dead in law ’ — but of the girl he denied that he had ‘ attempted to vitiate her at Nine years old ’ ; for ‘ upon the word of a dying man , both her Eyes did see , and her Hands did act in all that was done ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 23 | Wycliffe had not seen her at first . |
| 24 | Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ? |
| 25 | Sometimes she became childlike and you could see her at eight or seventeen or twenty-five . |
| 26 | Maggie 's face flushed hotly and she was glad that Ana could not see her at that moment . |
| 27 | I did n't see her at first . |
| 28 | If you looked at her sideways , you would n't never see her at all . ’ |
| 29 | They do n't see her at all . |
| 30 | It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment . |