Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have given anything for her unadulterated attention and approval . |
| 2 | He would have recognized her from her strong resemblance to her brother , although she looked the elder by some years . |
| 3 | Roman 's interruption held a note of such ferocious anger that in any other circumstances it would have stopped her in her tracks . |
| 4 | Mrs Frizzell snatched up her property , tried wildly to wrap the books in the remains of the paper bag , dropped one of them , picked it up and fled to the cloak-room at the back of the hall , followed by the titters and sniggers of not a few ladies who , knowing the reason for her purchase of the books , could well have rescued her from her predicament , but saw no reason to do so . |
| 5 | She must have reminded me in her remote stillness , her lucid silence , of someone I used to know , used to love . |
| 6 | She must have caught him with her fist , though she had n't felt it . |
| 7 | But by the end she chose to overplay her hand and lost the sympathy of those who could have saved her from her last indignities — though perhaps not from the bottle . |
| 8 | She could have done it on her head . |
| 9 | FitzAlan must have seen something in her face , because he took her hand briefly , his fingers tightening ever so slightly around hers in a gesture meant to reassure . |
| 10 | ‘ And would you have told me about her sister ? ’ |
| 11 | The company also said that Mrs Hampton should have told them about her illness when she was interviewed for the job . |
| 12 | The Archdeacon may have divined something of her thought . |
| 13 | She ought to have known that only matters of business would have brought him to her door . |
| 14 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 15 | The situation in Europe and especially the history of Serbia must have influenced her in her choice of subject and in this sense her book looks forward to Buchan rather than back to Anthony Hope . |
| 16 | Chances were he would have taken her at her word . |
| 17 | Perhaps we should n't have left her on her own . ’ |
| 18 | Somehow she knew with an inner certainty that even if she had met Adam Burns only for the most fleeting of moments , those dark obsidian eyes would have burned themselves into her memory for ever . |
| 19 | It was love , so real that she could have held it in her hand . |