Example sentences of "her [that] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth was tempted to tell her that at the time she had not had the vicar in mind , but since Mrs Peterson had not come to bring her any comfort , she simply turned her face to the wall . |
| 2 | ‘ It was going all right , but now it wo n't go at all , ’ she added more slowly , as she struggled for composure and it dawned on her that with a GB plate stuck on the back of her car that it would n't take a genius to work out that she was probably English . |
| 3 | Rain felt a surge of annoyance : Shildon could have told her that on the telephone and not wasted part of her evening . |
| 4 | But the sight of Elise 's work , hanging in Luke 's house , had caught her unawares , underlining her loss and , at the same time , reminding her that on the only occasion when Elise 's name had been mentioned Luke had adopted an attitude of total indifference , not even bothering to mention that he owned one of Elise 's paintings . |
| 5 | When Ariel gently lifted the old woman to move her to her own quarters up the path in the forest , Sycorax gave a huge cry , the folding of her body in Ariel 's arms shot fiery rivers of pain through her that for a while swallowed up all the others she suffered from her burns . |
| 6 | And it seemed to her that for a moment his eyes ensnared her , as though he had reached out a hand and taken hold of her . |
| 7 | Then her arms went about him and there was a heat in her that for a moment matched his own . |
| 8 | The derisive query showed her that as a bombshell it had failed to explode . |
| 9 | He might have told her that in the United States for over a decade now , the journals and magazines and guide-to-life books , aided and abetted by manufacturers , traders , and advertisers , had sung the song of the perfect home and the perfect homemaker . |
| 10 | A sleepless night had convinced her that in the event of Thomas 's death her role was forlorn fiancée . |