Example sentences of "her [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She drove slowly in Conterchi so as not to miss the turning and Italians hooted at her or raised their fingers in gestures she knew to be obscene . |
| 2 | In his absence she 'd been as nervy as a wildcat , jumping a mile every time someone spoke to her or touched her on the shoulder , expecting him to turn up out of the blue as he 'd made a habit of doing . |
| 3 | She has a very strong sense of duty and a great capacity for making relationships , and so far , by some miracle , perhaps because of the very close bond between her and her mother , her experience does not seem to have coarsened her or made her cynical . |
| 4 | I do not know whether we dragons loved her or hated her ; her will was like iron , as fast clad as our scaled hides , but her heart was like a songbird in the morning and she was as lovely as the lilies of the field . |
| 5 | You may have loved her or hated her , agreed with her or violently opposed her , but not even her worst enemy could have accused her of spinelessness or a desire to be shielded from life 's little unpleasantnesses . |
| 6 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 7 | ‘ Nobody cared for her or wanted her , she was alone and forsaken like a worthless rag . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was a look about her that said everything , and Jenna did n't need it spelt out . |
| 10 | It was what he would do if he caught her that worried her , Maria reflected drily . |
| 11 | She could feel her own heart pounding against her ribs and there was a passionate urgency inside her that robbed her of all thought . |
| 12 | Although I admire Mrs Dinwiddie 's concern for her family , I remind her that had she been a mother less than 80 years ago , when there were no modern crop chemicals , animal health products , food preservatives , human vaccines and modern medicines it is unlikely that her complete family would have survived childhood . |
| 13 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 14 | The girl had something — quite apart from her natural grace and outstanding good looks , quite apart from the lithe , leggy body that was simply made for modelling , there was a quality about her that made her stand out from all the others girls in the class , which drew the eye and held it , so that even someone as cynical as Arlene looked and wanted to go on looking . |
| 15 | He could not see her face , since it was turned from him , but there was something about her that made his heart stand still . |
| 16 | But it was the knowledge that he 'd deliberately set out to make a fool of her that wounded her the most . |
| 17 | His lips continued to hold her captive , weaving some dark spell around her that seduced her senses and lured her into sharing a virgin part of herself with this man … this man , with whom , of all the men she had ever met , she wanted least to share these secrets of herself . |
| 18 | At other times — especially in the beginning — he had succeeded in arousing a desire in her that matched his own , and that had been almost as frightening . |
| 19 | Since Paul 's departure — she grimaced at the memory — Dinah had been able to do as she liked with it , and she liked to have objects about her that reminded her of herself . |
| 20 | no , i i if it 's her that dreamt it . |
| 21 | For a year he had neither seen her nor permitted her name to be spoken in his hearing . |
| 22 | Yes , her brother-in-law had beaten her and treated her cruelly . |
| 23 | She said ooh th they 're talking about But whether he er whether he attempted to kill her and managed it I do n't know but that , that was what I heard anyway . |
| 24 | Whenever she thought of James Halden a shameful wave of physical longing washed over her until she remembered he had used her and discarded her . |
| 25 | One man who admired her and followed her everywhere was the unpleasant Bentley Drummle . |
| 26 | She understood now why she had always felt extra-special and why her mother had been so strict with her and taught her things about life and men and getting babies . |
| 27 | How dare he imagine he could charm his way back into her life , after the way he had deserted her and left her destitute with Sam and the two children to rear . |
| 28 | He 'd loved her and left her once , and if she gave him a chance he 'd do it again . |
| 29 | ‘ It was terrible for her and left her very shaken up . |
| 30 | Having settled Rachel in a corner and piled our luggage round her and left you , Mig , on guard , I struggled back against the refugees and climbed the gangway again to find Tim looking a little bewildered in the midst of a seething mass of humanity but remarkably calm , and soon we were back on the small boat . |