Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] her back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to draw her back into the circle of his arms . |
| 2 | She glared at him , then scanned the road for anyone who might offer help if he turned nasty and tried to force her back inside the car , but , apart from an elderly woman walking an equally elderly terrier along the opposite pavement , the road was deserted . |
| 3 | ‘ It would be unwise to try to move her back to the Rectory , ’ Tom Horrocks was saying . |
| 4 | ‘ Narcissist , ’ I said , wanting to get her back into the subject ; but she dropped it . |
| 5 | I 'd taken her back with a woolly suit , mitts , hat , booties , everything , in the middle of July . |
| 6 | But the bottle helped then , helped dull the pain , helped quell the shivering , helped ease her back into a dreamless sleep . |
| 7 | He cuffed the woman on the head , attempting to drag her back into the doorway . |
| 8 | Catching her hand , he began tugging her back towards the car . |
| 9 | It was at this point that I decided to put her back on a loose creance , so that she could approach the lure from whatever direction she pleased . |
| 10 | Then they started calling her back to the bridge game . |
| 11 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 12 | He would have escorted her back to the Old Rectory and then , a minor social obligation performed , turned with relief to walk alone to the abbey , drawing his solitude around him like a cloak . |
| 13 | I did n't want to have to keep carrying her back to the same perch for the rest of her life , although she did occasionally fly to the perch herself , she was so used to it . |
| 14 | I caught a glimpse of her , eyes red with fury , and I wondered if my last hour had come , but Bill , the man who was on guard , managed to push her back with the aid of a large plank , and she soon quietened down when we passed her babies back . ’ |
| 15 | In the course of treating Mrs Tighe , Bernstein used hypnotic suggestion and then regression , intending to take her back to an earlier time in her current life . |
| 16 | She 's tried to tempt her back into the woods , but with little success . |
| 17 | He was trying to win her back from the greedy black hole — to release her from its iron grip and return her to the safety of the study . |
| 18 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 19 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 20 | And before that he had brought her back from the world , home again into the enclave of the Scarabae . |
| 21 | He had followed her back to the car . |
| 22 | I wonder , is he trying to get her back into the house and she does n't wan na come back . |
| 23 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 24 | He had forced her back against a closed door , literally and metaphorically . |
| 25 | He was waking up , trying to drag her back under the covers . |
| 26 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 27 | He wanted to press his mouth to her softly parted lips and taste the sweetness within , he wanted to push aside the loosely tied neck of her shift and let his hand savour the warmth of her flesh , he wanted to lay her back on the bed and hold her against him as he had at the river-crossing ; he wanted her . |
| 28 | I was planning to bring her back on the Sleeper tonight . ’ |