Example sentences of "the [noun pl] that [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the eyes that challenged her across he table were just brown eyes , filled with lazy amusement . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She ran , fleeing the demons that pursued her , dragging in great gasps of cold air as if they were her last . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | I pulled off the wires that joined her to my machine . |
| 6 | Marian talked over with him some of the things that troubled her . |
| 7 | He had asked her to talk to him about the things that troubled her , but she could not . |
| 8 | By making tape recording of the sounds that disturb her , and playing them back to her frequently , indoors , at increasing levels of volume , she should gradually learn to accept them . |
| 9 | As he pulled it slowly free it caught the weak January sunshine and Tippy strained against the bonds that held her . |
| 10 | Ariel , watching , wished that she too could defy the bonds that tied her to the earth , and her blood leapt with Dulé 's ascent . |
| 11 | She stared blankly at the boys for a couple of seconds , then shook her head and tried to ignore the fears that crowded her . |
| 12 | It was n't just the blood-groups that worried her ; they merely confirmed her suspicion . |
| 13 | There she acquired the qualifications that took her in 1881 to Newnham College , Cambridge , where she got a first in the moral sciences tripos in 1884 , and a second in history in 1885 ; she also helped to form the Association of Assistant Mistresses . |
| 14 | Before Folly could give way to the tears that threatened her , a commotion on the road outside broke through her melancholy . |
| 15 | ‘ Again , why the hell does n't she say OK , and then handle it like everybody else , do the bits that suit her and not do the other ones ? |
| 16 | She drank in the clean masculine smell of him , revelling in the power of the arms that held her so tightly , the tenderness of the hands that caressed her heated skin . |
| 17 | Urgent now , she pressed again the strong body , thrilling to the arms that held her clamped there . |
| 18 | Rachel had always enjoyed being a woman , and delighted in her femininity , her sex appeal , the differences that made her so intensely female . |
| 19 | At the end of May 1913 Emily Davison was at home in Longhorsley , near Morpeth , recovering from her latest spell in prison , when she received by telegram the instructions that took her to Tattenham Corner as the Derby field approached . |
| 20 | She did n't hear the door open or feel the hands that eased her to her feet . |
| 21 | She turned to her right and set off for home , all thought and feeling evacuated along with her energy and her sweat , in touch only with the irregular paving-stones , the light-rays interrupting the pink-grey clouds , the number-plates of cars , the lines on the faces that passed her , the name of the day , its date . |
| 22 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |