Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 31 | Alice gratefully laughed with her , feeling privileged and special in this intimacy with Pat that admitted her into important conspiracy . |
| 32 | I ca n't put down exactly what she was like , only words that summon her to my mind , and this worries me , but it does n't really matter , since I know what she looked like , and this is being written just for me anyway . |
| 33 | After a while when the sickness had subsided , she opened the door and was about to creep cautiously away , when she heard her father speak some words that halted her : ‘ Who 's to blame for the club nights , I ask you ? ’ he was saying . |
| 34 | She made a fuss of every boat that approached her and mixed with all bathers on the beach , allowing them to pet her , hold her tail , and ride on her back . |
| 35 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 36 | The result is a set of pictures that expose her as a fabulous vamp with more definition than Wolf and more powerful pectorals than Panther . |
| 37 | The earlier remoteness was gone , replaced instead by a naked vulnerability that shook her . |
| 38 | ‘ He does n't live in a void , ’ said the poet 's wife on television , in a cut that shook her with its glibness . |
| 39 | The doorway was a smiling mouth that welcomed her . |
| 40 | Damian 's voice rose in fury as he strode to them , reached them and pushed Tony away from Rachel with a violence that made her cry out in horror as Tony stumbled backwards . |
| 41 | Ender , 33 , is unlikely now to produce the kind of speed that helped her break no fewer than 27 world records during her distinguished career . |
| 42 | She shook her head , trying to clear the hot rush of blood that made her feel strangely dizzy . |
| 43 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | It 's my friend Linda that knows her . |
| 46 | The American Mary Vorse published her remarkable Autobiography of an Elderly Woman in 1911 , which reflects at length on the reversal of roles that left her ‘ contriving to get my own way , for all the world like a naughty , elderly child , while my daughter was worrying about my headstrong ways as if she was my mother instead of my being hers . ’ |
| 47 | It was a clear silver flame that hollowed her with its hunger . |
| 48 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 49 | Clenching her teeth she pulled the door behind her , heard the sharp click of the Yale lock that shut her out . |
| 50 | Win Morgan smiled with a flash of humour that was rare because she was a woman grown old before her time , worn by the constant pain of her bone ache and wearied by the persistent cough that racked her . |
| 51 | We 've got to go there tomorrow , so ’ — he took his hand from the wheel and gave her a quick pat — ‘ put your neb under your wing until after the holidays and see what transpires then . ’ |
| 52 | But he turned her around with one swift jerk and forced her to face him . |
| 53 | The ensuing exchange over the months turned the whole cast of Balzac 's Comédie Humaine into Katherine 's familiars and gave her an awareness of greed and ambition , love and betrayal far beyond her years . |
| 54 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 55 | A friend in Joan 's office was active in the Womens ' Loyalist Action Association and invited her to one of its meetings . |
| 56 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 57 | I got to , Benguiat 's girlfriend and told her the whole story and told her to explain to Benguiat and calm him down and he had like threatened to come to Parkinson 's speech and disrupt it and scream liar and things like that at him . |
| 58 | So we 'd got to take the card and show her the Mother , we 'd been . |
| 59 | He borrowed someone 's press card and brought her a drink . |
| 60 | In all the confusion Guy Sterne had calmly flashed a credit card and whisked her away . |