Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] her [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enjoy reading her letters , and the way she describes the scenes , the weather , and the local gossip in Lochaber , especially after her very rare visits to Spean Bridge . |
| 2 | I thought better of her once . ’ |
| 3 | The woman with the bobbed blonde hair was bending down towards her again . |
| 4 | A lot of the time she just seemed to forget that he was there , and he 'd shamble along behind her just happy to stay close . ’ |
| 5 | I came down with her today . |
| 6 | She 's sitting down with her back to me , just like she always used to , and I 'm brushing slow and gentle , making her hair nice and neat . |
| 7 | She put the tray down beside the bed , and sat down with her back to him to pour the tea . |
| 8 | Leo demanded as he wrenched back to stare down into her almost terror-stricken face . |
| 9 | I moved in with her immediately and changed schools ( again ) , visiting my Pop at weekends . |
| 10 | Although Patrick Lundy was almost twenty , Katherine still considered him a child and treated him accordingly , and often it was easier to go along with her rather than risk an argument . |
| 11 | But she coaxed him along with her unwaveringly sympathetic smile , and he ordered everyone to dismantle the tables and re-set them . |
| 12 | Anthea gripped the mangled sheet fiercely in her long , strong fingers . |
| 13 | Anne remembered from her childhood ( she was only in her very early thirties ) when the clowns would enter the house via the door or even windows , with their brushes to sweep out , as she believed , the old luck and sweep in the new . |
| 14 | The full force of her loss came in upon her now , and she gave a shout of anguish . |
| 15 | She 'd known him barely two days , and already he 'd steered her through more emotions than she 'd known herself capable of — And , much to her very great surprise , over the next few days he insisted on showing her the countryside . |
| 16 | Anyway — ’ She looked down on her partly eaten meal and her nose wrinkled before she went on , ‘ I 've got to go downstairs again , and you 'd better clear away here when you 've finished , then go into Mother and see if you can soothe her ruffled feathers . |
| 17 | With an immense effort she dragged her gaze free , clamped down on her wildly over-active imagination . |
| 18 | Fernando looked down on her adoringly before allowing his lips to graze languidly over her mouth and cheeks and throat . |
| 19 | All the turmoil of the past weeks pressed down on her now , that she had arrived at her destination : this slightly tawdry student house with its worn second-hand furniture where she was so obviously unwelcome . |
| 20 | It drifted close to one of the massive posts and he went to tie up , returning to the puzzled Meredith and looking down on her thoughtfully . |
| 21 | and her elbows and erm all over her really she has this eczema , she 's always having to change creams cos they |
| 22 | As he stared at her he knew that he had come to a crossroads , that if he gave in to her now he 'd have to give into her again and again and again . |
| 23 | Marco was moving in on her again . |
| 24 | As she entered the narrow lane , the soot-blackened buildings seemed to close in on her threateningly . |
| 25 | She did n't like the way he had moved in on her so quickly . |
| 26 | He hunkered down beside her just as a flaming beam from the ceiling crashed to the ground only inches away . |
| 27 | Travis came down beside her then , his body half resting over her , hands framing her face . |
| 28 | He looked down at her incredulously . |
| 29 | He looked down at her steadily . |
| 30 | He looked down at her steadily and Maggie tried to stay cool , but she was losing this battle and she knew it . |