Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her . |
| 2 | just so that they found her but she was unconscious . |
| 3 | His anger matched her own , then outgrew it so that she felt her breath catch in dismay as she saw the expression on his coldly furious face . |
| 4 | She began to take a different route so that she approached her home from the other end of Magdalen Street and avoided a meeting with John . |
| 5 | After Colonel Charles Maynard died , his widow remarried to the Earl of Rosslyn and found herself ‘ not on cordial terms ’ with her ex-father-in-law : so much so that he cut her out of his will , leaving all the family property to his granddaughter Frances , and so much embittering the family that Frances 's mother ‘ feared the abduction of myself and my baby sister . ’ |
| 6 | He had turned so that he faced her , his body propped on that deformed arm of his , the sleeve of his anorak empty , the metal forearm and hand stuffed incongruously into his pack . |
| 7 | It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset . |
| 8 | And although other people were certainly present they seemed to have faded to some other level of reality , very far removed from herself and this bulky , swarthy man who was letting her know , without a word , not only that he had her , but that should he now refuse to open the trap and let her in she would plead with him to do so . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing , ’ she denied , ‘ or only that he missed her when she returned to Ireland . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 11 | Not that I blamed her . |
| 12 | Not that I minded her coming in every day , just did n't , not always that time . |
| 13 | Not that it stopped her . |
| 14 | Not that it stopped her from gobbling up every cultural titbit dropped before her . |
| 15 | Not that it stopped her talking about the Jesus who was the centre of her life . |
| 16 | ‘ Not that he trusted her . |
| 17 | A vague idea formed in his mind — not that he loved her but that he would like to see her always in his house , like some suitable decoration or finishing touch . |
| 18 | These days she was glad of any invitation to proximity , and curled up beside him so promptly that he gave her an amused sidelong glance as he took her hand in his . |
| 19 | Through her own trusting innocence she was alone with a man who 'd stated quite clearly that he wanted her . |
| 20 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 21 | And he knew now that he wanted her , wanted her when it was obvious that she did n't want him and would never again risk rejection . |
| 22 | My dear mother 's statement years ago that I deprived her of her fur coat and that I was n't much to look at — she once actually pronounced me ugly — bit deep . |
| 23 | She plaited her hair so tightly that it hurt her , straining hair and flesh until it felt as though the white seam down the back of her head might split and the brains gush out . |
| 24 | She loved Nick , loved him so much sometimes that it gave her a pain , but she hated to be told to do something she was going to do anyway . |
| 25 | I felt then that I understood her . |
| 26 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |
| 27 | Albert smiled at her but so sadly that it brought her no comfort . |