Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wild exultation at having him so close made sure her momentary pain was no more than that , as he slipped easily into the rhythm that had her half sobbing with delight until his voice joined her own . |
| 2 | Behind Thorfinn , the door slammed shut with a force that made her bed jerk . |
| 3 | Excitement spread tentacles that fastened round her heart , squeezing it mercilessly so that it was unable to beat , tentacles that compressed her lungs so they were unable to breathe . |
| 4 | Blue eyes that made her heart give an alarming little lurch . |
| 5 | Naylor Massingham enquired , but while his handsomely defined mouth moved in a pleasant upward curve , the hard-as-flint eyes that pierced her large green-eyed look told a very different story . |
| 6 | The dark grey eyes that glanced her way just before they moved across the chaotic intersection seemed to mirror that hatred , and she recoiled slightly . |
| 7 | Lisa blinked up at him , for a moment wondering if he was joking , but there was not a shadow of humour in the dark eyes that met her own . |
| 8 | It was fitzAlan , looking down at her with eyes that ripped her heart into pieces , speaking to her in a voice so hard that the words were like blows . |
| 9 | But it was the eyes that drew her attention , dark and smouldering with lovely long lashes . |
| 10 | Quickly she looked away , fiddling with papers on her desk , not sure she could cope with the anguish in his eyes that mirrored her own , but David lingered . |
| 11 | Amusement veiled the sharpness of the ice-blue eyes that held her own astonished grey gaze . |
| 12 | Eyes that turned her insides to jelly , scrambled her mind , made her feel dumb and stupid and childish . |
| 13 | But it was his eyes that compelled her gaze ; between generous lashes they glowed with an amber back-light . |
| 14 | And they had eyes , bright and pricking eyes that shredded her clothes and burrowed to the soft underwear she had purchased in the Centrum store on Magdeburg 's Karl-Marx-Strasse . |
| 15 | At that moment Ruby gave a growl that set her loose flesh trembling . |
| 16 | He swung away from her , walking over to the edge of the small pond , his body rigid with a tension that made her afraid to do or say anything that might unleash that anger once again . |
| 17 | That was when Luke chose to end it , raising his head and examining the agonised tension that held her face and the taut , smooth line of her exposed throat with dark , glittering eyes . |
| 18 | His bulk created an intimacy in the small workroom that made her wary , and the atmosphere , just for a moment , became charged , until he gave a little grimace which dispelled it . |
| 19 | She often brought in mussels , gritty with tiny pearls , for the evening meal , or sometimes nesting birds , or a hare that ignored her approach to its form till she had her hand on it . |
| 20 | Ariel was n't thinking clearly , her brain was fogged by the din around her and the rage of Sycorax , but the message in the stones summoned her to some action , something to break the silence and the stasis that held her prisoner . |
| 21 | Frederica slept in a windowless loft that held her suitcase , a camp bed , and no more . |
| 22 | Three easy words that expressed her physical joy . |
| 23 | Neither was she aware of the mumbled words that passed her lips as the hours went by , nor of the method he used to warm her when she started to shiver again . |
| 24 | There was a grim edge to his mocking that drew her attention , and Folly wished that she could see his face more clearly . |
| 25 | The electroshock therapy that followed her hospitalization of one unfortunate schoolboy left Marjorie a dull husk of her former self . |
| 26 | It was his unexpected kindness that caused her jaw to clench suddenly in an attempt to stave off the hot tears scalding her eyes . |
| 27 | Billing herself as the spirit of Patsy Cline , she ( and her band the Reclines ) cut the album that established her country claim . |
| 28 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 29 | Putting a companionable arm round her shoulders that made her shiver with awareness , he urged her in the direction of the village . |
| 30 | Then suddenly there was cool air on her face and light that hurt her eyes . |