Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cosier , do n't you think ? ’ she said coyly , as she slid into a chair nearest the kitchen door and gave him what he could only assume was her standard come-hither look . |
| 2 | To her grandfather , admittedly , a man who must have been old enough to have been her father , but still surely nothing to get in such a stew over . |
| 3 | It might not have been her place to reveal such a suspicion , but it could help to relieve Juliette 's fears on her brother 's behalf . |
| 4 | Michael Pisani 's informative notes with this set supply a good deal more information , revealing an extraordinary story indeed : Eckhardt-Gramatt é's; maiden name had been Friedman , after her mother 's ex-husband , who may not have been her father . |
| 5 | And tonight had been her watershed . |
| 6 | Neither would he , because all he had ever wanted was her love . |
| 7 | It was not a successful pilgrimage : ‘ the more she wept , the more irked was her man of the company , and the more he tried to go from her and leave her alone ’ . |