Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My regard for her was reflected in the fact that I asked her to be my son , Giles 's godmother . |
| 3 | I have to confess that I walloped her with a newspaper but I did n't touch her . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I knew whenever I saw her , first time I was in the shop that I recognized her from somewhere . |
| 6 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
| 7 | Mrs Mohammed-Holgate was the temporary lodger whom the police arrested when , many months after the burglary , the original owner of the valuables thought that she recognized her from the description given by the shop owner of the person from whom she had bought the jewellery . |
| 8 | when I spoke to about it she said that you told her to hand it over to my department cos it was a national account |
| 9 | ‘ Because firstly she feels embarrassed at not knowing much about art , and secondly she 's still struggling with the fact that you mould her like a piece of clay in every painting . ’ |
| 10 | That you see her from the back . |
| 11 | The one that you bought her for Christmas . |
| 12 | Anatole France , more effusive , likened it to a woman who ‘ is so beautiful , so proud , so modest , so tough , so touching , so voluptuous , so chaste , so noble , so familiar , so crazy , and so good that one loves her with all one 's soul , and one is never tempted to be unfaithful to her . ’ |
| 13 | I am recommending that we take her to the hospital immediately . ’ |
| 14 | The Lieutenant recommended that we bring her to you , as she was carrying this . ’ |
| 15 | So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button . |
| 16 | The island presented such a complex profile to the early European navigators that they assumed her to be separate islands — and her pluralized name remained all the way up to Indonesia 's independence when an orgy of name-changing occurred and Celebes was renamed Sulawesi , and her capital , Makassar , became Ujung Pandang . |
| 17 | She sighed , not wanting to add that they reminded her of her childhood home in case Mark should be hurt . |
| 18 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 19 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 20 | The trouble with winning , she explained , was that it left her with bad memories rather than good . |
| 21 | There was no flat black Córdoba hat , but it was the same man and Maggie felt an almost bitter rush of disappointment , so strong that it took her by surprise . |
| 22 | The transition was so abrupt that it took her by surprise . |
| 23 | Fru Møller , who resented the embargo on her taste within the house , and frequently complained of the frustration she endured at having to maintain the past in all its detail , enjoyed the discipline the White Garden imposed , the contacts that it brought her in the gardening world , and the admiration its unusual beauty reflected upon her . |
| 24 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 25 | Not that it stopped her from gobbling up every cultural titbit dropped before her . |
| 26 | It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset . |
| 27 | The fact that he rapes her on the night that Stella 's baby is born , on their bed , and in his wedding pyjamas makes Stanley seem even more bestial . |
| 28 | She shook herself inwardly , said severely , Control yourself , Sally-Anne Tunstall ; remember what happened when you had such soft thoughts about a man before , and the sudden dreadful memory this evoked hit her so hard that she stopped dead in her tracks , gave a stifled wail , and went so white that Dr Neil , hearing her , and looking at her , saw that her pallor was so extreme that he thought her on the verge of fainting . |
| 29 | Hari gestured that he follow her through the door into the small back yard and from there into the small workshop . |
| 30 | Chelmsford Crown Court heard that he blasted her with a sawn-off shotgun in the street in front of their two young children . |