Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [vb past] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | With her died the chance for Sinead to exorcise the demons that had scarred her childhood and turned her into a rebel whose talent to shock would ultimately overshadow her singing ability . |
| 2 | He was the one who had got the photograph that had enabled her father to do the portrait . |
| 3 | It was then she recognized it was fear that had set her limbs a-tremble and turned her blood to ice . |
| 4 | Though she was stiff and slightly sore , the tension that had made her talk too much , drop things , and jump at the smallest unexpected noise had completely disappeared . |
| 5 | But now the tragedy that had killed her mother and Jake 's father and made an orphan of little Kirsty had , cruelly , brought them together again . |
| 6 | ‘ Araminta wanted me to clear up first , ’ Theda answered , trying to still the flutter that had attacked her pulses at the touch of his hand on her arm . |
| 7 | It was the words that had made her mind reach out and collect information from long ago . |
| 8 | As she increasingly mover her imagery towards precisely controlled representationalism , away from the apparent spontaneity that distinguished her non-representational work of the 1910s and early 1920s , she denied much of the sustained expressiveness and inventiveness that had made her formative work singular among that of her American contemporaries . |
| 9 | Without any information as to the nature of the chemical that had poisoned her system she had no way of telling if she would come out alive at the other end of the process . |
| 10 | She needed several things she had not been able to bring away from the Holborn house ; chemises , petticoats , nightgowns , drawers , a frilled nightcap that had taken her fancy , stockings , handkerchiefs . |
| 11 | Mrs Parkin left , blaming Ellen for having turned her son from a faith that had sustained her family through death , famine , hardship , war , bereavement . |
| 12 | Now , though , with this Lucifer 's touch on her body , his lips hungry and demanding on her own , she lost her will to fight , lost sight of all the reasons that had kept her aloof and apart from the crowd . |
| 13 | It was a blow that seemed to stun her whole body ; it was hard to get back up again . |
| 14 | Thereafter Dinah forgot about Olivia ; the child learned to crawl and walk without the fear of making a noise that had pervaded her brothers and sisters at Hampstead . |
| 15 | She had of course questioned the decision that had left her heiress to Tara , while Fergus , so indisputably a leader , so plainly possessing the natural authority Grainne believed she lacked , was relegated to the command of the Fiana . |
| 16 | The Western church could forget the tensions that had enriched her life while Rome was one among several great sees . |
| 17 | This wild , hectic , almost shocking excitement … a bitter-sweet , desperate longing that seemed to turn her limbs to water whenever she thought about Ross ? |
| 18 | Flavia Sherman was still wrestling with the turmoil of emotions that had kept her awake long after she returned to her own hut through the stormy jungle night . |
| 19 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |
| 20 | The chill of fear and loneliness that had penetrated her very bones was suddenly consumed by the fury that engulfed her like a wave . |
| 21 | This was n't his first encounter with Stephen 's rival and he knew the woman seated on the other side of the high table was a formidable opponent , probably more dangerous than the King , and possessing in full measure the strong will and harsh determination that had characterised her father and grandfather . |
| 22 | The moment of panic that had strained her face was gone . |
| 23 | Anna 's mother died shortly after childbirth ( the same fate that had befallen her father 's mother ) and the father and daughter developed a close and mutually productive lifelong relationship . |
| 24 | After the bass hamper that had held her belongings was refilled and strapped , Sister Cecilia said , ‘ Sit there quiet , my child , until they send for you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Margaret , ’ called my mother , and ‘ Margaret ’ again , her voice taking on the faint exasperation that had flavoured her tone as she used my name for many years now . |
| 26 | They each had a few jokes and by the time the roach was flushed away she was already experiencing her first rush , a warm , dreamy sensation that seemed to encompass her whole being . |
| 27 | And that it was the success of the sweet shop that had enabled her great-grandfather to buy this end of the business . |
| 28 | It was nature that had turned her grey , she said , and she did not give a damn . |
| 29 | Helen , however , was still imprisoned in the fears and longings that had marked her life during the first years of puberty and was obsessed with the idea that she would never marry and have children . |
| 30 | Her father , himself ten years older than her mother , seemed more concerned about his daughter marrying a man who was seventeen years older than her , and had felt that she was entering into the marriage largely because of the misfortune that had afflicted her family . |