Example sentences of "[verb] her [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 2 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 3 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 4 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 5 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 6 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 7 | She says his records helped her out of a coma five years ago . |
| 8 | The violence in him was suddenly frightening , yet it touched her inside , caught her up in a tangle of emotions too powerful to analyse . |
| 9 | Independent of separated words , as whole as water , it bore her along as a part of itself , a gold current that connected everything , a secret river running underground , the deep well , the source of life , a flood driving through her , salty breaker on her own beach , streams of words and non-words , voices calling out which were staccato , echoing , which promised bliss . |
| 10 | ‘ You did n't know he was a drunken sot who beat her up on a Saturday night , did you ? ’ |
| 11 | The next morning , Ian woke her up with a cup of tea , said he was sorry about last night , he 'd had a bit too much to drink . |
| 12 | But what he had left her was the key to untangling the harmony of dancing lights and that let her in to a place which like a child she had always stared at unknowing before . |
| 13 | Pushing her down into a chair , Travis produced her passport from his pocket . |
| 14 | He got up , lifted her and carried her back to the bedroom despite her threats to do him a fatal injury if he did n't stop carting her about like a sack of old cabbages . |
| 15 | Those who know no better probably reckon they can put one over Mary , passing her off as a cups-of-tea , rustic East Country accent , down-home , fund-raising type . |
| 16 | We 'll send her out with a list then . |
| 17 | He put the plate down on the counter in front of him then lifted her on to a stool . |
| 18 | Kathleen grabbed Amy and they lifted her on to a trolley and wheeled her into Resus . |
| 19 | And , at this stage , it would be quite wrong to rule her out as a suspect . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | that er you 're not you know , take her back on a Sunday but you 're not picking her up on a Friday , I said she 's got a train pass make her come home |
| 22 | And then do n't , you no need take her home you see , because it 's only just picking her up on a Tuesday . |
| 23 | Nottingham Crown Court has been hearing allegations that a taxi driver raped a lesbian passenger after picking her up from a nightclub . |
| 24 | Najma 's family tried to talk her out of a singing career as not quite suitable for a good Muslim girl , but she persevered and in 1984 won Britain 's Asian song contest on her first public appearance . |
| 25 | She kitted her out in a belt and a thick wad of gauze . |
| 26 | That 's why we 'll keep her in for a week or so , for tests , but our consultant is very pleased with her — and very optimistic . |
| 27 | The loss of her father had opened her up like a can of something and tipped her out . |
| 28 | ‘ Our first talk turned her round from a position of despair to a position of strength and attack . ’ |
| 29 | He pushed her down beneath him finally , holding her down with a hand around her throat . |
| 30 | Andrew 's locked her up in a convent where no one can touch her . " |