Example sentences of "that [verb] her [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Alice gratefully laughed with her , feeling privileged and special in this intimacy with Pat that admitted her into important conspiracy . |
2 | I did n't want her to give herself over to the view of life that underlay all this , the philosophy that pinned her to the shadow-corners of the world . |
3 | And over all hummed and shimmered the warring coloured adverts for Spiderglass and Madreidetic and Usines du Rhône with a dozen others belting out music and olfacts that dizzied her to nausea . |
4 | The words were delivered with a flatness that stopped her with her hand on the door . |
5 | It was the sight of the stranger , the professor , that stopped her in her tracks . |
6 | Whoever owned the cabin had wide-ranging interests — apart from several well-thumbed fishing journals and a variety of motoring magazines , there were numerous glossies that provided her with food for thought . |
7 | It was a chance remark that caught her off guard . |
8 | Something was beginning to happen to her , an excitement , a wildness that caught her by the throat . |
9 | His features were strong and rather austere , and his high cheekbones gave him a distinction that was all his own , though the line of his well-cut mouth hinted at a sensuality that disturbed her without her knowing why . |
10 | It was a clear silver flame that hollowed her with its hunger . |
11 | The role enables the researcher to gain the confidence of the group that accepts her in her false role . |
12 | It was the memory of the sparkling waters of Tenerife that helped her with her imaging , and her joy in at last succeeding in that therapy was immense and infectious . |
13 | Sister moved quickly , but it was other hands that helped her to her feet , strong male hands . |
14 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
15 | Even now the magnetism that drew her to him was so strong that if he knocked at her door and said he 'd changed his mind , in spite of everything , it might take more amor proprio than she could muster to refuse him . |
16 | What was it about Luke Hunter that reduced her to such gibbering incoherence ? |
17 | There was a cruel taunt in his voice that cut her to the quick . |
18 | Anything would have been better than this ice-cold contempt that cut her to the bone . |
19 | It had been in his eyes when he lay on the bed staring rigidly at the ceiling , a terrifying , heart-rending pain that cut her to the bone . |
20 | The young woman in the plain suit was not intimidated by it , nor by the hand-carved plate that proclaimed her to be in the offices of Yeo , Davis and Partners . |
21 | There was something about Rourke that stirred her in a way no other man had ever done … but , even so , a tiny voice of caution held her back . |
22 | Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all . |
23 | In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles , including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family . |
24 | Her safety-valve , the thing that prevented her from going round the bend , was the fun of devising and dishing out these splendid punishments , and the lovely thing was that they seemed to work , at any rate for short periods . |
25 | There seemed to be a blankness in her that prevented her from going any further ; a momentary spark that said , But wait … and then said nothing more . |
26 | The strength of his hard ribcage , the flat muscularity of his stomach and … her head swam dizzily … a delicious throbbing bulkiness that told her of his desire . |
27 | Things that filled her with joy and drew her into the everyday lives of the two people she had loved for so many lonely years . |
28 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
29 | A look that claimed her for his own and spoke of a love that would bind them together for always . |
30 | He had to watch her carefully , he said , and if she felt like pottering around , that was good medicine , Anything was that encouraged her to be cheerful . |