Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | She went to the Labour Bureau and the clerk there told her that she would be passed fit for clerical work and sent her to the Ministry of Defence Office . |
| 33 | After the meeting a lot of people wanted to talk to Karen and ask her about the last few days . |
| 34 | Bella was very old now and would probably be glad of a rest , George considered , so he drew the pony to a halt and walked her off the road and on to the quarry floor . |
| 35 | Ruth Michaelis felt betrayed from the time her mother brought her over to England and left her with the Reverend Stead and his family . |
| 36 | He was kissing her hungrily , then he lifted her off her feet and carried her to the water 's edge , resting her on the sand so that their bodies could feel the gentle ebb and fall of the sea against them . |
| 37 | Seizing her wrist , he hauled her to her feet and dragged her through the small hall and into a side-room with a wide , specially designed window on the north wall . |
| 38 | They had grasped her by the wrists and feet and dragged her to the neighbouring room . |
| 39 | Salt shook her shoulder and when that made no difference , dragged her to her feet and propelled her to the small book-lined room known as the study . |
| 40 | Daniel got down , put an arm round her thick middle , hoisted her silently to her feet and pulled her towards the bedroom . |
| 41 | Princess Marie Louise went to the Queen and told her about the scheme . |
| 42 | She heard a muttered curse , she saw a shadow across the french window at the end of the room , she felt someone catch her round the waist and drag her to the ground . |
| 43 | He joked and playacted , then put his arm round one 's waist and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 44 | Yanto curled his arm around Sheila 's waist and guided her towards the river bank . |
| 45 | He had hustled her out of the kitchen into the boudoir and kissed her on the lips , slipping his arm round her waist . |
| 46 | Eddie Gilfoyle allegedly said that mum-to-be Paula was leaving him but his workmates were still able to speak to her at home and see her in the area . |
| 47 | He was obliging , and liked to run errands for the girl and help her with the care of her old lady . |
| 48 | The minutes crawled like tired snails , but the ambulance arrived before Tom had returned from making his phone calls in the study , and with the compassionate yet businesslike speed that Belinda never ceased to admire , the paramedic ambulance officers slid Faye on to a stretcher and carried her to the waiting vehicle , where an intravenous line could be set up immediately . |
| 49 | We discussed our plans for the living museum and theme park and told her about the oak tree . |
| 50 | At ten past eight that evening , when he ran downstairs to answer his outer doorbell and found her on the doorstep , it was as if he had been kicked in the stomach . |
| 51 | There was no doctor , no magic seer to give her the golden branch and lead her into the underworld , only yet another pretty young woman , the radiological technician . |
| 52 | She glared at her sister and kicked her under the table . |
| 53 | But Inman said : ‘ The referee did not recognise the technique and let her off the hook . ’ |
| 54 | Jumping in after her , Perdita pulled off Enid s wig to reveal scant grey wisps and pushed her under the water , where the aquamarine hostess gown billowed up to display fawn pop socks at the end of fat , purple legs . |
| 55 | Just under four hours , to phone in the money and let her off the hook . |
| 56 | I know that in Beirut I simply took my child through the checkpoints and delivered her at the school gates . |
| 57 | Heat flared along her veins , ripple after ripple of heady sensation that shook her to the very depths . |
| 58 | Kate grabbed the shoulder of her daughter 's tee-shirt and dragged her to the cell door . |
| 59 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 60 | Then she sought out Matilda and called her into the classroom . |