Example sentences of "[adj] [that] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] her " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 On the arrival day he considered going to meet Maggie in Carrick but he was afraid that he might miss her and decided to go to Boyle .
2 It was also understandable that he should hate her for what he thought she was doing , or , rather , helping Garry do .
3 It was unbelievable that anyone could condemn her like this without good reason .
4 Who could hate her so much that they would send her something like that ?
5 It was untenable that he should blame her for something that was not her fault .
6 ‘ I 'll make sure that I 'll bring her back in one piece , ’ André was saying , but Piers had turned away and gave no indication of having heard what was being said to him .
7 ‘ If things are as you say , then a man can never be sure of his wife ; never be sure that he 'll find her there when he comes home at the end of the day .
8 He was less sympathetic than I would have expected , but I am sure that he will send her home if she is unwell . ’
9 In fact , if she were there for two months , it would be unlikely that it would regard her as a resident .
10 For the next hour Fabia was alternately angry that he could take her to such heights only to call a halt when she responded too readily , and despair that he had made such a nonsense of her that she had n't known where the dickens she was .
11 At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals .
12 ‘ Good heavens , ’ she flew , feeling outraged that he could suspect her of such a thing , ‘ I would n't dream of asking him questions about you ! ’
13 She was amazed to realise now just how detailed her dream of him had been and annoyed that he could make her feel so uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to last night .
14 Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her .
15 At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up .
16 When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation :
  Next page