Example sentences of "the [noun sg] that [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she stepped over the threshold of Rose Cottage , the smell that met her was not that of her own living space . |
| 2 | It was the smell that alerted her and gave her that first sudden awareness of danger . |
| 3 | The invisibility that threatened her drove her to perform to attract attention , so she had done well at school , been picked for the hockey and the swimming teams . |
| 4 | She saw that look come into his eyes again — the look that told her so clearly how little she meant to him . |
| 5 | The secret of her approach was care in preparation , and woe betide the department that sent her into battle badly briefed or not briefed at all . |
| 6 | Then Kerry began to realise that she had found a strange kind of relief amid the disappointment that knocked her sideways when she first saw Panos . |
| 7 | The future was like the blackness that surrounded her , in which there were n't even shadows . |
| 8 | Ruth was used to feeling afraid in his presence ; but now the fear that touched her seemed more on his account than on her own . |
| 9 | The natural values of such materials were used , in the work of some of the artists , to stir memories of particular female tasks or events : the death of Emily Wilding , the suffragette , is evoked by Josephine Thom by a rose wreath made of lace and underwear , on a turf sod scored by the hoof marks of the horse that killed her . |
| 10 | She withdrew , and Claudia opened the door , steeling herself to greet Roman without a trace of the emotion that made her want to run out of the flat , away from the two people she loved most and who were causing her so much pain that she wanted to die . |
| 11 | Marion was sitting in the sun , her back to the hut that sheltered her from the cold wind . |
| 12 | In a book written in jail , Bambi , 32 , is bitter about the law that landed her there . |
| 13 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 14 | The scene that confronted her was like a tableau from a waxworks , she thought with faint hysteria as she walked in . |
| 15 | She retched and failed , squeezed , tried again , tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her . |
| 16 | I did n't want her to give herself over to the view of life that underlay all this , the philosophy that pinned her to the shadow-corners of the world . |
| 17 | This , the waste of it , fuelled in her the indignation that kept her going , filled her mind with the thoughts that justified everything she did : one day , it would be impossible that fine people like Philip would be misused , kept down , insulted by circumstances ; one day — and because of her , Alice , and her comrades things would be different . |
| 18 | She felt as though she might burst with the joy that filled her . |
| 19 | The hill that faced her was bearded like a prophet with a wild white waterfall . |
| 20 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 21 | The compulsion that held her there , head resting against his broad shoulder , she knew was emotional rather than physical . |
| 22 | The role enables the researcher to gain the confidence of the group that accepts her in her false role . |
| 23 | She frowned ; there was something about the people in the water that made her look more closely . |
| 24 | Everything they had given her ( except the finger-plug that jacked her into infinity ) fitted into one bag that did n't seem to belong to her . |
| 25 | And was it only yesterday when she 'd worked beside him at the barbecue while becoming vitally conscious of the attraction that made her feel drawn towards him ? |
| 26 | Nobody except the person that killed her . |
| 27 | Detectives say it was probably the shock that killed her . |
| 28 | She thought more about losing the coal to Mrs Phipps than about Granny , it seemed to me then , but I expect it was the shock that caused her to react in that way . |
| 29 | She would cut the cord that bound her to them cleanly and irrevocably . |
| 30 | A beauty in her youth , her ‘ false curls and false eyebrows … her false teeth , set off by her false complexion ’ , and her juvenile dress can not disguise her 70 years , any more than can her talk of ‘ Nature ’ and ‘ Heart ’ obscure the heartlessness that makes her see her beautiful daughter as a saleable commodity . |