Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] her " in BNC.

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1 A name for the monk had instinctively formed itself in her mind .
2 Carole Swan has just rung me from her lovely home to tell me what happened last night in the Hotel … ’
3 Unlike Napoleon 's mother , Elena Petrescu left no memorable quotation or hint that peasant-wisdom had perhaps already prepared her for her world to be turned downside-up again .
4 She had not felt it since her days of poverty , when she had faced the world alone ; it was something different from the polished ruthlessness that money had brought ; it was brighter-eyed , more truculent .
5 Perhaps , thought Harry , Heather had not told him of her visit to Oxford — or what she had learned there .
6 She had felt worthless , doubly deserted , and had finally wiped him from her mind , only a faint bitterness left , a hollow , incomplete feeling she would always carry .
7 I had also just complimented her on her dress .
8 Whatever he was up to , whatever his intentions towards her , at least she 'd just discovered something about her feelings towards him .
9 She had surely not learnt them at her boarding-school , whose high-minded staff and prissy pupils she had described to him , and whose old-fashioned upper-classy slang she sometimes employed .
10 She has n't still got it in her ear has she ?
11 She was a grown woman and she had always prided herself on her common sense , but all the same …
12 She had always prided herself on her resoluteness and fortitude but there was one fear she had never managed to conquer — a fear of rats which dated back to an incident when she was three years old .
13 She 'd always prided herself on her inner strength .
14 She had always prided herself on her calm , her coolness under pressure , yet twenty minutes of Luke Calder 's company and she was ready to act like a harpy !
15 She — who 'd always prided herself on her clear , incisive brain — was now finding that her thought processes seemed to be completely jammed .
16 She had always prided herself on her tolerance and open-mindedness — how dared he call her bigoted ?
17 At this moment she wanted him more than she had ever wanted anything in her life .
18 He might have had the last word , but he had n't really forgiven her for her temerity in trying to put him down .
19 She had often tired him with her chatter , with her bursts of personal revelations , ‘ Today I feel this — yesterday I felt that , ’ but suddenly he wished she would talk to him .
20 Keith Parker , manager of Harpers Sports Centre , where Joanna was a fitness consultant , said her boyfriend had often warned her about her personal safety after dark .
21 She has even named them in her will .
22 She has n't said , since we said that off that time , she has n't said anything about her office experience .
23 He still had n't said anything to her bald accusation , and suddenly she needed his reply more than she would have thought possible .
24 Oh I 've never even seen anything of her Jane
25 ‘ Because we have n't seen her since her barbecue , ’ she said .
26 Swire Sugden seemed very impressed with Mollie but then he had n't seen her with her skirt tucked in her bloomers showing her skinny legs .
27 She 's an artist , but I ai n't seen none of her paintings .
28 She has n't got anything in her hand .
29 ‘ All right , I wo n't , but I hope Zelah has n't got it into her head that I 'm to do something about all this nonsense . ’
30 The sudden tenseness of his jaw suggested that discretion would have been the better part of valour , and so it should have been , if he had n't taunted her about her sexual uncertainty .
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