Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll just sound her heart again before we go . ’ |
| 2 | It was a long while before I could even change her nappy , and putting clothes on , you had to disconnect all the wires , put the clothes on and put them all back . |
| 3 | I could still hear her voice , the way she had said , ‘ You do n't approve , do you ? ’ |
| 4 | I suffered with her that evening , right through every moment , and when I went to bed at around midnight I could still hear her crying into her pillow — not a sound that sends a mother peacefully to sleep . |
| 5 | Karen did , and I could quite understand her apprehension at the prospect of trying to maintain her rigid code of etiquette beneath the hot southern sun , in a festive holiday atmosphere , with both of us under the same roof twenty-four hours a day . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh — ’ I could almost hear her hiccup — ‘ it 's so good , darling , hearing you talking like that . ’ |
| 7 | It was n't until we got to Redbridge Station that she thought — and I could almost hear her thinking — about the envelope and the fiver I 'd given her . |
| 8 | ‘ We quarrelled a lot when I was younger , ’ Lizzie says , ‘ because I would never follow her advice . |
| 9 | She says to me , I can not continue , she 's dead already , I will never forget her face , never . |
| 10 | I keep on thinking that I can even smell her perfume . |
| 11 | She was gorgeous , I can even remember her name — Irene Farron . |
| 12 | I can only admire her courage . |
| 13 | CHART newcomer Tasmin Archer fears she may never get her licence after failing her driving test for the third time . |
| 14 | Yet she must still get her daughter married . |
| 15 | The shock of all of this is so great that she might well lose her health . |
| 16 | She might even turn her head right round to see where the car had gone , but she would n't consider it important enough to jump off the glove . |
| 17 | She might only lose her temper about once every five years , but when she lost it , boy , did she lose it , and events these last few days had been urging her dangerously near to boiling-point . |
| 18 | They 're very important , part of her background — of what you might almost call her mythology . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll probably see her car parked . |
| 20 | You will have to be a little cruel to be kind or she 'll never regain her stability or independence . |
| 21 | Greg Hocking was tempted to say : At least she 'll never get her side of the story across now . |
| 22 | But then she reminded herself that Miguel had entrusted her with his secret , and there was no way she could even explain her unhappiness to anyone . |
| 23 | He roared up beside her and ground to a halt , the silence after the noise of the engine actually quite frightening , and he was out of the Land Rover and towering above her before she could even open her mouth . |
| 24 | She could barely open her mouth to whimper : |
| 25 | She could barely turn her head to watch him as he backed out of the room and closed the door ; a moment later , the sounds of the fire irons against stone resumed . |
| 26 | Ruth scathed , her chest heaving so hard she could scarcely catch her breath . |
| 27 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she asked , holding the wooden earpiece as close as she could without upsetting her hair . |
| 28 | Even if she fell in , Gazzer told himself , she could probably swim her way out . |
| 29 | She could still hear her mother 's voice saying , ‘ Do n't sit looking at me like that , child ; say something . ’ |
| 30 | Looking out over the snow-covered park , she could still see her brother 's reflection in the glass . |