Example sentences of "her [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A friend had told her that they never took them off , but she had thought that he was pulling her leg .
2 I told her that we already had the tape and that she would have nothing to do but be there and play the role .
3 But something told her that she probably did not .
4 He looked so desperately far away from her that she nearly reached out to touch him , to bring him back , because she instinctively knew where he was .
5 However , doing some voluntary work in schools and on a holiday camp for the under privileged convinced her that she really wanted to carry on working with children .
6 I remember thinking how typical it was of her that she never thought of being wooed .
7 He was so much a part of her that she never needed nor wanted to examine too closely the nature of her feeling for him .
8 He remembered Gina 's summing-up of Eleanor 's character and told her that she only saw people as shits because she was n't woman enough to hold a man .
9 And for a moment Lisa was suddenly so overcome by the confusion of responses that went rushing through her that she almost failed to pick up what he said next .
10 Mrs Turpin remarks to the woman next to her that she once knew a girl who had everything a child could possibly want , but was still a spoilt , ungrateful brat .
11 But I shall never lead a normal life because I 'm so short — we 're both short — that 's why Tilda stands on the deck half the day , it 's because somebody told her that you only grow taller while you 're standing up .
12 Although I did n't live with Marian for another four years , it was because of her that I finally left .
13 ‘ Prince Philip was interested to her that I already held the bronze and silver awards and asked me whether I had enjoyed myself going for gold , ’ said Christine .
14 And every day I hear more about what she thinks and why it 's upset her that I ever hear from George about anything .
15 I explained to her that I only had a couple of quid to my name , but I 'd be willing to pay off the rest before six months were up .
16 Edward assured her that he also desired to speak with Philip personally and would arrange a meeting ( 7 April 1304 ) .
17 He relaxed her and told her that he quite appreciated her anxiety and fear , and the fact that she was experiencing so much pain .
18 What she hated was the scorn lacing his recognition of the power he had held over her , then and now , although it occurred to her that he really had been considerate — merciful — in leaving her alone six years ago .
19 And was he really trying to tell her that he really did n't indulge in casual affairs ?
20 Was this perhaps his way of trying to tell her that he deeply regretted what had passed between them ?
21 When his bubbling stopped and he was dead , it seemed to her that he suddenly grew larger .
22 And if her head warned her that he only wanted her for sex , her heart ignored the warning and opened itself joyfully to his tender passion .
23 Indeed , it seemed to her that he now went out of his way to be pleasant and , on her part , she was ‘ no longer afraid of him ’ .
24 I feel far mo , less sympathy and far less identification with her than I perhaps do with a male worker who has to cope with the same kind of exploitation that I do , day in , day out .
25 And as proof in the healing power of accepted love her hands undid him , as he undid her , until , naked together , he lifted himself to enter her , and if for McAllister there was a moment of trapped fear it disappeared when she was truly his , and they were , at last , one thing , moving together in harmony in an experience quite unlike the shock and terror which she had felt with Havvie , and had always feared would happen to her if she ever made love again .
26 I asked her if she always painted with such alacrity and her answer came as something of a relief , ‘ I like to enjoy painting , so ofttimes I paint much more slowly , it 's like eating , you do n't want to rush through a great meal ’ .
27 She had thought he would wipe the floor with her if he ever learned of her deception .
28 A cup of coffee in bed for Beth — he always brings her one and fears it would all be over with her if he ever stopped .
29 We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for .
30 She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed .
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