Example sentences of "[verb] her [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 4 | Less than two hours later , a city-centre taxi let her out under the lighted awning of the hotel by the park . |
| 5 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 14 | Then one of them held her , threw her on to the dry dirt road and started to undo his belt . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This shocked her suddenly , shook her back into the real world and changed the entire course of the interview . |
| 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 | How can I just ring her out of the blue and tell her that her daughter has married the first Italian she 's met , without telling any of us ? ’ |
| 19 | Someone had laid out knee-high duckboards to cross the snow , and Lucenzo shot out an imperious hand to help her on to the low platform . |
| 20 | Eager for the haven of her hotel room , Luce allowed Michele to help her on to the deserted fondamenta . |
| 21 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 22 | Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 24 | Its crassness repelled her but it slid inside her because she recognized it as her name and suddenly there was a dark pit , a chasm , a void , and the gravity of being dragged her down into the dark heart of weight . |
| 25 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 26 | ‘ Take the cases ! ’ said Damian bitingly , his hand gripping Rachel 's arm and marching her out through the sliding doors to the limousine . |
| 27 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | Lorimer grinned and beckoned her over to the long windows . |
| 29 | He swung her round to the happy music , and his hand held her close , but there was no lightness in their steps . |
| 30 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |