Example sentences of "[verb] her [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
2 | She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding . |
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 | 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 . |
5 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
6 | Less than two hours later , a city-centre taxi let her out under the lighted awning of the hotel by the park . |
7 | Put her down as a poss . |
8 | Thunder woke her out of a fitful sleep . |
9 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
13 | He drove her back in a battered silver sports car . |
14 | He had written her off as a useless , lying bimbo . |
15 | But the bottle helped then , helped dull the pain , helped quell the shivering , helped ease her back into a dreamless sleep . |
16 | But Scotland also suffered from internal religious differences , and from the effects of the Navigation Acts after 1660 that cut her off from a good deal of overseas trade . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 ! |
19 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
20 | Then one of them held her , threw her on to the dry dirt road and started to undo his belt . |
21 | We have some friends whose 21-year-old daughter was murdered by a boyfriend who threw her out of a third-storey window . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | He shook her off with an irritable gesture and turned to the gendarme . |
24 | This shocked her suddenly , shook her back into the real world and changed the entire course of the interview . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 ? ’ |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Eager for the haven of her hotel room , Luce allowed Michele to help her on to the deserted fondamenta . |
29 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
30 | Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction . |