Example sentences of "[verb] her [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then Janet overtook her just before the finishing line . |
| 2 | Elvis had then travelled forwards in time , locating each potential mother of the Anti-Christ and wooed her away from the Satanic father to be . |
| 3 | She was in the cafeteria a short while later , steadfastly keeping her back to the huge windows with their wonderful view of the skiers outside , when a hand descended on to her shoulder , making her start in alarm . |
| 4 | A few weeks after their visit to the Peristrephic Panorama , her father was rowing her slowly across the serpentine lake on the neighbouring estate of Lord F- . |
| 5 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
| 6 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 7 | She began to take a different route so that she approached her home from the other end of Magdalen Street and avoided a meeting with John . |
| 8 | Less than two hours later , a city-centre taxi let her out under the lighted awning of the hotel by the park . |
| 9 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 10 | She never noticed if Alexandra was fully dressed or had stumbled straight from sleep in her night clothes but would welcome her always with the sweetest of smiles and a gentle reproof for leaving her alone . |
| 11 | She felt him pushing her backwards on the overstuffed settee and she let him . |
| 12 | ‘ As to that , ’ answered her spouse , pushing her inexorably towards the waiting gig , ‘ there may be another way to go to work . |
| 13 | Back at the office , Schellenberg changed into a light grey flannel suit in the bathroom , speaking through the other door to Ilse Huber as he dressed , filling her in on the whole business . |
| 14 | So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage . |
| 15 | Now a widow , Mabel has made her home in the compact whitewashed building , tucked in one of Whitby 's historic yards . |
| 16 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 17 | If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river . |
| 18 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 19 | Anger enabled her to see clearly now and drove her straight to the relevant point , eschewing futile denials . |
| 20 | Taxi driver Alan Macdonald was so enraged by Linda 's story that he drove her straight to the Daily Mirror . |
| 21 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 22 | Like a game-cock in arrogance , he lifted her back across the dividing space and pulling away the collar of her , inevitably musquash , fur coat , he dropped his mouth low on the back of her neck , drawing kisses to and fro and nibbling gently across it . |
| 23 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 24 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 25 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 27 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 28 | Then one of them held her , threw her on to the dry dirt road and started to undo his belt . |
| 29 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |
| 30 | This shocked her suddenly , shook her back into the real world and changed the entire course of the interview . |