Example sentences of "or [vb past] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had thought she was in love with Giles , but he had never aroused this heady excitement in her , or made her skin tingle when he came anywhere near . |
| 2 | Detectives do not know if she was attacked somewhere else and driven to her death , or met her fate in the lovers ' lane . |
| 3 | Most reports of this incident underlined Mrs White 's loss , or used her son as a metaphor for the ‘ death of hope ’ in a precinct riddled with drugs . |
| 4 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 5 | He had n't hit her , or snatched her camera , but stood square to her , holding his hands up as if he knew not to , bouncing on the balls of his feet , while Jean-Claude and his group looked on , keeping very still , and Miranda wondered , for a moment , if the camera were rolling , for she felt on display under George 's attack . |
| 6 | She tended to jump like a nervous thoroughbred if he touched her arm or kissed her cheek . |
| 7 | She had no way of telling how deep it was , but it was narrow enough to support her easily if she slipped or lost her hold . |
| 8 | The red bitch became short-tempered , snapping at the puppy when it went to suckle her dangling teats , now empty of milk : pushing it aside when it clambered over her sleeping body or pummelled her head in a rowdy mock fight . |
| 9 | It was n't that she went completely overboard , or examined her faith critically . |
| 10 | Once upon a time Camille would have dipped her oar in here : she would have turned on Brian for attacking her mother or chided her mother in no uncertain terms for being a drunken slut . |
| 11 | Why had her father not yet bought or won her freedom ? |
| 12 | When he brushed his cheek against hers or supported her waist in multiple pirouettes the sensual heat was unmissable . |
| 13 | She did not beg her , as Cati did — Rosa had heard her — to help her be good , help her to be pure , and never have dirty thoughts or put her fingers in dirty places ; instead she fixed on the amber doe 's eyes that had gushed , above the hilt of a sword , which was studded with bright glass stones and stuck out from the statue 's brocade costume . |
| 14 | Her eyes never left his , the woman 's , and she did not a damn thing to cross her legs or put her hands across her breasts . |
| 15 | Would she have been a normal and contented woman had she not been Nicolae 's sister , or did her willingness to abuse every chance to profiteer from her position and to humiliate those she disliked reflect a deeply unpleasant cast in the Ceauşescu genes ? |
| 16 | And Audrey has never been on the stage , or left her husband , or made a false move in public in any direction . " |
| 17 | She never moved or relaxed her watchfulness ; but in her very stillness there was something of violence , as though a touch might cause her to spring into startling and daunting life . |
| 18 | She never questioned or regretted her position . |
| 19 | Or had her efforts to get to the bottom of the rue Roland mystery taken an unexpected toll on her ? |
| 20 | " Now let me see myself in a glass , " Sara said eventually , and when one was brought gave a gasp of surprise , because she had not worn the high collar before or had her hair braided , and although these strange garments were a little uncomfortable and restricting she could n't help admiring the slashed sleeves , the low , square neck and the wonderful wide skirt that swept the stone floor . |
| 21 | Or had her body been taken there after … ? |
| 22 | Or contemplated her death so soon . |
| 23 | but no one regretted its effect on the red bitch or mourned her loss . |