Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lek , the thirty-year-old maid installed for her along with the furniture by the Committee , telling her about the nine children and the mother up-country she supports and whom she rarely sees . |
| 2 | Sharon 's boyfriend Matthew Stanton , 21 , was walking with her just behind the happy , giggling girls at the time of the accident early on Saturday evening . |
| 3 | Still holding her arm , he was walking with her back along the avenue , down to the sea front . |
| 4 | The chosen person stands with her back to the rest and throws the ball over her head without looking to see where it lands . |
| 5 | He moved in her slowly to the rhythm of the distant sea . |
| 6 | Her mind flew back to the moment last evening when Benedict had come at her out of the shadows of the hall as she had come downstairs with Lady Merchiston 's empty supper tray . |
| 7 | She woke in the early dawn and peered around her blearily through the heavy mist that filled the wood . |
| 8 | As he came towards her out of the darkness the inevitable shock of physical awareness swept over her , sharpened now by the experience they had just shared . |
| 9 | For here , thrust on her out of the darkness of her past , lay the reason she could never be his . |
| 10 | The cough and splutter of an aircraft engine came to her clearly on the still evening air . |
| 11 | Guy 's voice , tight with frustration at his own helplessness , came to her out of the darkness . |
| 12 | The advocate-depute , Paul Cullen , told the High Court in Edinburgh that McKie had asked the girl to go outside , saying he wanted to talk to her away from the loud music . |
| 13 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 14 | Celia was aware of Dr Shalcross looking at her intently across the desk . |
| 15 | About his wife she had no reservations : tough and vital , the life force flowed through her even as the cancer — which she would acknowledge to no one , and certainly not to her husband — extended its grip on her . |
| 16 | But when there was no retort from her granddaughter , she turned her head and looked at the young woman lying with her back against the head of the couch , her eyes closed , the muscles of her jaws showing white through the skin , and , her tone changing , she enquired , ‘ What is it , dear ? |
| 17 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 18 | Longing flamed in her again at the smell and feel of it . |
| 19 | So when he turned to her casually in the car , and suggested that they call in at his house for some tea before they parted , Folly found herself leaping on the suggestion with almost indecent haste . |
| 20 | The job had been offered to her out of the blue . |
| 21 | The one where this governess is told to put on a special dress and sit with her back to the window . |
| 22 | Ehm , I walked past her twice at the airport . |
| 23 | Damian pulled her out and shut the door , marching with her back down the corridors , his hand hard on her wrist , and as she went with him , hurrying to match those long strides , she understood and was horrified beyond belief . |
| 24 | When she returns to Pierre and Claire , they are unwilling to believe what she claims has happened but they drive with her back to the field and Maria finds the opening in the wheat where he is lying . |
| 25 | He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye , wondering if he dare ask for water to help wash the cake down . |
| 26 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 27 | And then I realized that the little cup she 'd brought with her out of the sea , and gave to me for Adam — that little cup could be none other than Undry . ’ |
| 28 | She moved nearer , heedless of Raynor 's warning hand on her arm , not exactly pushing him from her , but summoning , without realising , the authority and the remoteness that had come down to her ; certainly assuming the unconscious imperiousness that she had never known shone from her , and that was shining from her now in the dim , moonlit cell . |
| 29 | I turned again to Ellen , pretty freckled Ellen with her high cheekbones and clever green eyes and flaming hair and mocking smile , and I suddenly wondered whether McIllvanney had spoken to her again in the last week . |
| 30 | She had not seen Angela since the weekend before the one on which she had disappeared , but had spoken to her twice on the telephone . |