Example sentences of "[verb] she [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other woman had caught her completely on the raw with her mention of the man she had seen Adam with , though to be honest she could n't really have said why . |
| 2 | Jason Page , 17 , had already punched and kicked Daisy Castle before stabbing her twice in the chest , a St Albans Crown Court jury was told . |
| 3 | Manescu grasped her firmly by the arm as he asked his question . |
| 4 | Ruth asked as Fernando reached down and grasped her tightly round the wrist to haul her out of the swimming-pool . |
| 5 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 6 | Naomi looks her straight in the eye , and demands , in a stage-whisper , ‘ Is it anything … to do with … sex ? ’ |
| 7 | He moved her firmly towards the hatchway . |
| 8 | Tutilo took Daalny suddenly between his hands , with grieving gentleness , and moved her aside from the doorway . |
| 9 | Shutting the door , he put his candle down on the nearest chair and drew her across to the glow that streamed in from the setting sun . |
| 10 | Fred breezed into the office , his lined face breaking into a disbelieving grin when he found her already behind the desk . |
| 11 | Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day . |
| 12 | " Mr Gillman 's ready for you now , " she said to the older of the women , and helped her gently into the consulting room . |
| 13 | He regarded her steadily across the table . |
| 14 | It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped . |
| 15 | He caught her once on the way in . |
| 16 | ‘ Happens , ’ he said gruffly , patting her gingerly on the shoulder , and striding down the track ahead of her . |
| 17 | And Preston sat there beside her , patting her ineffectually on the shoulder , saying , ‘ It 's all right , it 's all right , really , it 's all right , ’ until finally the sobbing stopped , too , and her eyes closed and she gave a great , shuddering sigh and slept . |
| 18 | Sikes took out his gun , but realizing , even in his madness , that a shot might be heard , he beat her twice across the face with it as hard as he could . |
| 19 | The kiss went on forever , and she offered no resistance as he swung her up into his arms and dropped her gently on the bed , coming down with her . |
| 20 | In a flash he was pushing her away from the path they were making and into the cover of the undergrowth . |
| 21 | As he was speaking , he was pushing her relentlessly towards the bottom of the stairs . |
| 22 | The blue eyes studied her lazily in the mirror , and she had the strangest sensation he was toying with her as a cat would a mouse before a kill . |
| 23 | Nora was longing to see the new Constance and proudly show her little around the neighbourhood . |
| 24 | ‘ Lachlan Cattanach , ’ Farquhar said sternly one day , ‘ will you for God 's sake be either forgetting the lass , or letting me carry her away up the hill for you ? |
| 25 | An arm , clad in a golden-brown shirt that she had already noticed did marvellous things for his dark hair and amber eyes , transferred her smoothly to the settee , without her spilling a drop of coffee . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm meeting her tomorrow off the boat train , ’ Harry replied , ‘ and we 're going down to Calking together . |
| 27 | He imagined Helena coming to some trysting place on a summer night , to the Banks of Knamber perhaps , or like Lady Irene and Alastair Thornhill , to the ghost of a road , the Reeve 's Way , as it threaded through the Vale of Allen , and Tace meeting her there in the twilight . |
| 28 | Casting an unreadable look at Isabel , the boy obeyed , taking Ellen by the arm and urging her away from the church . |
| 29 | He lifted her easily over the bolster . |
| 30 | In desperation he lifted her bodily off the ground so that she was helplessly pinned against his solid frame , and she discovered to her horror that hating him did n't in any way negate the way he could make her feel . |