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Example sentences for "her being"

  • But WHAT the devil was the meaning of her being on the spot at all?

  • Its queer we've never heard of her being presented," one shopgirl says to another.

  • And she lifted a high head, not even asking herself what remote sense in her being so obstinately defied and threw down the glove to Fate.

  • In obeying the mere laws of her being, she would have stimulated them.

  • She had long expected Charles's death, yet it pierced the inmost depths of her being.

  • Barbara felt wounded to the inmost depths of her being by this letter.

  • If you were in my place, her being only a governess wouldn't stand in the way with you?

  • I don't pretend to be fond of the child; but think of her being like me!

  • Do you object to her being only a governess?

  • It was no one thing which prisoned her hand and lips, but every fibre of her being, every pulsation of her heart, every glance back into the past to the confines of childhood.

  • He should have stamped goodness upon the soul of the future Queen as the fundamental law of her being.

  • I answered that, beautiful as she was, there was no doubt of her being loved by everybody.

  • She was much pleased with me for having informed my three friends of her being under my protection, and she left to my care all the necessary arrangements for obtaining a reconciliation with her father.

  • She who had always worked so hard could not understand why her strength had suddenly snapped, and she was humiliated to the very depths of her being.

  • She thought she was going to die, she wished to die, and at the same time she wished to live with all the forces of her being, to live for the promised happiness.

  • Beauty and passion were the breath of her being, he thought.

  • Instantly he thought of Katharine, the thought of her being surrounded by the spaces of night and the open air; and Mary, watching him, saw the lines upon his forehead suddenly deepen.

  • He was bitterly jealous of the Greek's philosophic review of the conditions of Vittoria's marriage; for when he had come away from the concert, not a thought of her being a wife had clouded his resignation to the fact.

  • The chasseur was directed on the Bormio line, with orders that he should cause the arrest of Vittoria only in the case of her being on the extreme limit of the Swiss frontier.

  • She was pale, and her arm was in a sling, but there was no appearance of her being unnerved.

  • Yet when her ayes lingered on any mountain gorge, the fate of her husband sang within it a strange chant, ending in a key that rang sounding through all her being, and seemed to question heaven.

  • But, as this physic was only eventually good, and as its efficacy depended on her being in the right, a point in which she was not apt to be too positive, she thought fit to add some consolation of a more certain and positive kind.

  • Booth declared he was much more surprised at her being able so well to preserve her temper in recounting her story.

  • But allusion being made to her being held in disregard by the gentlemen, she evinced violent emotion, and this blow was no sooner followed up by the remark concerning her seniority, than she fell back upon the sofa, uttering dismal screams.

  • Don’t make that serious face at me,” she went on with tenderness in a playful note, as if tenderness had been her inheritance of all time and playfulness the very fibre of her being.

  • I had no doubt that the man knew of her being there; but he only knew it by hearsay.

  • I couldn’t bear the idea of her being criticized by every empty-headed chatterer belonging to the Cause.

  • Her habit was so costly, with bracelets and pendants of diamonds, and a necklace of pearls, so large, that he made not the least doubt of her being one of the principal ladies of the court.

  • Can you be held guiltless if your daughter ruins body and mind because you were too modest to tell her the laws of her being?

  • Her being, in and about their hearts, concealed no secrets; he knew the fresh, cool water-springs as surely as the corners where the wild honey gathered.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her being; her book; her chamber; her cheeks; her companion; her family; her fingers; her friend; her friends; her hat; her husband; her lips were parted; her mind; her mouth; her new; her power; her presence; here before; here said; here speaking; here translated; here very; hereafter shall; hereby amended; hereditary monarchy; hermetically sealed