Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only slowly did her heart-rate come down , and she was able to see that no lasting harm had been done . |
| 2 | Jane was no great cook , and did n't even enjoy it , but she had brought up a family of four , so quickly got her bearings in the kitchen , which was off the main circular room . |
| 3 | Writing things down always clarified her thoughts . |
| 4 | She strangled the reply which so nearly escaped her lips . |
| 5 | So please put her mind at rest and tell her it 's not plastic , but some other product that 's not a danger to us , because we 'd love to have them back please ! |
| 6 | When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms . |
| 7 | She had long ago closed her heart against all invasion . |
| 8 | So Marion , back on the boards after the death of her boring solicitor husband some years ago , compressed her lips and maintained as well as possible the stately calm that so well suited her part as the Balkan Countess whose family jewels were stolen in this season 's Salt and Pepper offering ( Robson the butler was the master crook , in league with the Countess 's French maid ) . |
| 9 | So well had her work progressed at the Lodge , and so greatly — for all the discomfort — had she enjoyed her solitude , that Louisa momentarily tried defiance ; but she was shivering uncontrollably even as she did so . |
| 10 | Her love for Maman , with its consuming passion to please , belonged to the times before Maman had , as she now realized , so gallantly followed her love . |
| 11 | But so graphically did her words convey her love and concern for them that , reading it aloud , both were reduced to tears . |
| 12 | Ianthe thought the word ‘ cocktails ’ a little old-fashioned , and so evidently did her aunt , who protested that everyone drank whisky or gin and tonic now . |
| 13 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 14 | I only recently discovered her connection with this place , and that was by accident . |
| 15 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 16 | He not only found her annoying ; he found her entirely and mysteriously offensive . ’ |
| 17 | Not only did her flesh disgust him , she had impregnable opinions as to what was normal sexual practice and what was not . |
| 18 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 19 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 20 | Now my sister just just had her bathroom just had her bath bathroom artexed ? |
| 21 | ‘ Let's hope so , ’ she said , and told them that her parents were furious because Josh , her grandmother 's lodger , had left all his money and possessions to Kate and not even mentioned her grandmother who had looked after him for years . |
| 22 | She just completely lost her nerve and was too afraid to tell him for fear of rejection . |
| 23 | Several seconds passed before Isabel realised her name had come from beyond the wall and not from the man whose fingers still gently caressed her cheek . |
| 24 | I mean she was upstairs three quarters of an hour and when she came to the top of the stairs she still just had her vest and knickers on . |
| 25 | She hardly ever lost her temper , least of all with Anne . |
| 26 | Only time and , ’ he paused and once more kissed her hand , ‘ our greater love . ’ |
| 27 | When Cook once more expanded her bosom to protest , Mr Eames put up his hand . |
| 28 | Clara , who had phrased the question so deviously , flinching in preparation from a brutal negative , thought that she must have misunderstood , and repeated the whole rigmarole , and her mother once more nodded her head and said yes . |
| 29 | I once nearly read her diary and I thought no I 'd better not |
| 30 | And , as that memory hurt yet again , she all at once completely lost her appetite . |