Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ran , fleeing the demons that pursued her , dragging in great gasps of cold air as if they were her last . |
| 2 | The throw took her by surprise , was sharp and strong , and went a little wide , so that it was only the experience of three younger brothers that gave her quick enough reflexes to shoot an arm out sideways to take the catch . |
| 3 | Julius stood in the doorway , and there was a bright light in his eyes that made her feel very alarmed . |
| 4 | He smiled suddenly , something in his eyes that made her instantly wary , but when she tried to remove her hand from his arm he covered her fingers with his own and held them there . |
| 5 | And the eyes that challenged her across he table were just brown eyes , filled with lazy amusement . |
| 6 | There was something about the look in his eyes that told her this was a time to listen and not argue . |
| 7 | His fingers bit deep into her shoulders , but the pain scarcely registered in comparison with the sensations that possessed her , the fire streaking through her whole nervous system . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 14 | She promised herself , however , that she would hold the office only briefly , and now that her husband Stan has retired , she feels that she can no longer involve herself to so great an extent in commitments and activities that take her away from home . |
| 15 | But on another level the linguistic acrobatics which the novel displays provide Mira with verbal strategies that enable her to cope with her fear for the future and her personal situation in the present . |
| 16 | They had been busy in the department all day , a steady stream of non-urgent cases that kept her occupied and largely out of his way — until the middle of the afternoon , at any rate . |
| 17 | Ants of knowledge were pick-pick-picking at her brain , fighting their way in , and she had no defences against them , but the data they brought were swirled and fragmented pixels that frightened her with their strangeness . |
| 18 | Marie 's parents had strong religious views that made her feel very guilty about having sex in their home when she and her husband had to live there for a while : " We did it on the bedroom floor on the wedding night because I would n't use the bed , in case it made a noise . |
| 19 | Lee Rodwell on the conflicting views that leave her feeling muddled and guilty |
| 20 | It also contain antibodies that protect her against infections — and it costs nothing ! |
| 21 | ‘ Well … it was her feet that gave her away . ’ |
| 22 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 23 | When not being a mother or supportive wife , she has taken on numerous appointments in areas that interest her . |
| 24 | At the other extreme , in the ballet called ‘ The Red Shoes ’ in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , Vicki ( Moira Shearer ) acquires the red shoes that compel her , or the balletic character she plays , to dance to her death , fleeing the diabolical shoemaker ( Leonid Massine ) . |
| 25 | She wore a black dress reaching to just above her knees , suspended from her shoulders by straps no thicker than shoe laces ; black stockings , encasing surprisingly slim legs , and very high-heeled red shoes that elevated her an inch or so above Morse as he stood up and offered her his stool . |
| 26 | On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular . |
| 27 | He took up a pen and drew a few lines on a notepad — meaningless lines that irritated her as she watched . |
| 28 | I pulled off the wires that joined her to my machine . |
| 29 | One is astonished , for instance , at how the daughter of Olivia Shakespear , no ordinary mother , was restricted , even in the arty society that she and Olivia frequented , by the still rigid conventions that wheeled her , uncomplaining but always chaperoned and often bored to tears , through a round of pointless visitings . |
| 30 | She stared blankly at the boys for a couple of seconds , then shook her head and tried to ignore the fears that crowded her . |