Example sentences of "of her [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The green dress was too long ; she was almost as tall as Alice now , but there was n't so much of her to fill it out . |
| 2 | ‘ It was more a case of her seducing me . |
| 3 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 4 | So , while that sane part of her made her half turn as though to return to her bedroom , that other part of her , the part that tingled and loved him , caused her then to delay — just for a moment . |
| 5 | ‘ And the lady , it is especially kind of her to allow me to stay . ’ |
| 6 | Taken aback by her anger and foreseeing the likelihood of her leaving him on the strength of it , Jeremy switches tactics to conciliation . |
| 7 | That was the sole purpose of her leaving it to me . ’ |
| 8 | The practical part of her said it would n't be the end of the world . |
| 9 | Her success in this enterprise had fortified her in her career as psychotherapist , had given her confidence in her right to pursue it , in the rightness of her pursuing it . |
| 10 | There was no possibility of her reaching it . |
| 11 | He saw her through a gilt-framed mirror on the opposite wall , and that first glimpse of her brought him more joy than a dozen Christmases put together . |
| 12 | Fei Yen bowed deeply , the two maids on either side of her copying her automatically . |
| 13 | Phoebe , like her mother , did not believe a word of it , but part of her knew it was true . |
| 14 | Sandra is probably Robin 's most famous guest ever , and the videos of her baring her all are treasured by devotees . |
| 15 | With Penry in front of her to see she did n't slip , their progress was slow down the steep path towards the strip of land which formed the waist of the figure-of-eight . |
| 16 | He looked at his mother , seeing how she smiled self-consciously and lowered her head , for a moment the youthful look of her reminding him terribly of Meg — of how Meg would be a year or two from now . |
| 17 | Releasing her abruptly , fitzAlan pulled Isabel 's arms away from him and held them , gazing down at her face as if the sight of her tormented him beyond bearing and yet he still could not bring himself to look away . |
| 18 | ‘ Insulting , then , ’ she agreed quietly , determined not to lose her temper , although if he was going to carry on in that vein the chances of her keeping it for very long were absolutely nil . |
| 19 | Even as he felt the danger of his need sweep over him , he perceived another danger beneath it : he let the pleasure of her carry him off , but within his pleasure 's flow a small bitter seed remained , as it were stuck between his teeth , offering him warning . |
| 20 | After the words he had written to her , it was churlish of her to avoid him , but she dreaded any interview because of what she must say . |
| 21 | And , although one part of her found it deeply frustrating , at another level Folly was grateful for his restraint . |
| 22 | Do you have news of her to tell me ? ’ |
| 23 | She was fervently wishing that he would go away , and yet part of her wanted him to stay . |
| 24 | She would not use his love of her to hurt him . |
| 25 | Part of her trusted him still , but the voice of reason whispered that he could not be the frank and open person he appeared . |
| 26 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 27 | Part of her embraced it gratefully whilst the other , the sad , secret part , rejected and resented it , all the while clinging blindly to what had been . |
| 28 | Something in their need of her pulled her back from the seductive slide into oblivion . |
| 29 | In fact , in this moment of her departing I was irrelevant , the couple sitting beside her even more so . |
| 30 | Did his opinion of her prompt him to try to scotch any possibility of a friendship developing between Rob and herself ? |