Example sentences of "that [vb past] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Something was beginning to happen to her , an excitement , a wildness that caught her by the throat . |
| 3 | There was something about Rourke that stirred her in a way no other man had ever done … but , even so , a tiny voice of caution held her back . |
| 4 | In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles , including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family . |
| 5 | Heat flared along her veins , ripple after ripple of heady sensation that shook her to the very depths . |
| 6 | Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them . |
| 7 | And that faced her with a course of action which , for some obscure reason , seemed rather distasteful now . |
| 8 | The chill of fear and loneliness that had penetrated her very bones was suddenly consumed by the fury that engulfed her like a wave . |
| 9 | Ariel , watching , wished that she too could defy the bonds that tied her to the earth , and her blood leapt with Dulé 's ascent . |
| 10 | It was perfectly natural that Jake should marry — and , apart from how it might affect Kirsty , it was not an event that interested her in the slightest . |
| 11 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
| 12 | THE gritty determination that took her to the top as Coronation Street 's Ivy has always been there . |
| 13 | With interest , that took her beyond the £55,000 offer which the police force had made in June 1991 to settle the case . |
| 14 | She came off the slope at an uncontrollable pace that took her across the clearing and into the trees . |
| 15 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 16 | It was being made to feel redundant that brought her to a standstill . |
| 17 | And he nibbled at her lips again , before catching them in another long exploratory kiss that brought her to a threshold of physical pleasure she had never before experienced . |
| 18 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 19 | What he seemed to see was something else , something that wore her like a shell , and it was walking towards him . |
| 20 | She felt strangely restless , wanting to throw herself into every small task that awaited her throughout the house . |
| 21 | The walls were brick lined and the floor covered with dull tiles set in a herringbone pattern that reminded her of a Roman villa she had once seen near the South Coast . |
| 22 | Miranda and Angus sat in a velvet-lined , crimson booth that reminded her of an old-fashioned railway carriage . |
| 23 | She tried to break from his grasp , but as she spoke he released the arm still pinned at her side and placed his hand on the curve of her neck , fondling it in a way that reminded her of an actor she 'd once seen playing Henry VIII just before a beheading scene . |
| 24 | And yet he was immaculate , his hair groomed and beaded with rubies ; his tunic an achingly sweet shade of pink that was almost white , edged with black ; his trousers of a blue that reminded her of the summer skies of her youth . |
| 25 | Polly pushed her arms through the webbing straps that reminded her of the restrainer her eldest sister used to stop her adventurous offspring clambering out of their prams and buggies . |
| 26 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 27 | Again she heard the boys ' warm approving voices , voices that left her outside the heat of that dangerous moment . |
| 28 | Not for the first time she cursed the lack of experience wth men that left her with no clue as to how to interpret what happened between them . |
| 29 | Backed by just one woman trainee officer she confronted the suspect in alley off Lawrence Road , the scene of an attack in December 1991 that left her with a smashed up face . |
| 30 | There was an edge to his comment that left her in no doubt that everything she said only confirmed the opinion he already had of her . |