Example sentences of "[verb] her [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 2 | Nobody helped her beyond the poor sad girl at the library to whom she was kind and who now bounded about the romantic fiction section for her , feverishly pulling down titles she thought Kitty would like . |
| 3 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 4 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 5 | Then , after a whispered word with one of the cousins , Angel and he galloped up on either side of her and neatly lifted her off the little black mare . |
| 6 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 7 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 8 | He would see her in the old holey woollies she wore to bed , rather than an old-fashioned nightshirt . |
| 9 | Ross said , taking hold of her arm and leading her through the wide arched entrance of the building , towards a bank of lifts . |
| 10 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 11 | This was partly due to ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , remixed by Stock , Aitken and Waterman and her third single on the PWL label , succeeding in breaking her in the all-important American market when it climbed to number three in the US charts . |
| 12 | She sports a high-riding mini-skirt — which scarcely endears her to the strict Hasidic sect . |
| 13 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 14 | She could not but be gratified and relieved at the possibility of a small sum to see her through the likely lean period before she could get another post . |
| 15 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The words were spoken as his hand touched her shoulder and slid around her back , drawing her into the warm sheltering cliff of his chest . |
| 18 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 19 | She breathed deeply , like a swimmer suddenly out of her depth , then his arms locked around her , crushing her against the tautly muscled wall of his chest . |
| 20 | In her view the film had been ‘ quite careful ’ to show that it was an allegory and it reminded her of the British classic film Black Narcissus . |
| 21 | An influence strong enough to rob her of the natural exuberant self-confidence that had always been a central , unthinking part of her personality . |
| 22 | Except for occasional — rare — meals at a nearby restaurant , they never went out , sending out for meals when they did n't feel like cooking , while Luke no longer even accompanied her to the various work-connected functions she sometimes had to attend at weekends , dealing with business matters of his own or else remaining at the apartment while she was out . |
| 23 | The passers by stopped to admire her from the large wrought iron gates at the bottom of the drive . |
| 24 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 25 | He motioned her to the small round table she had n't seen being laid out and urged her to drink and eat . |
| 26 | He left her at the large ornate gate , and she walked up the short drive to the front door . |
| 27 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 28 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 29 | ‘ But I am , ’ he asserted with a grin , steering her towards the long metallic midnight-blue convertible parked a little way along the road . |
| 30 | Whenever she was not working in the house or on the vegetable patch , Endill would find her in the rickety old shed beside the wall he sometimes climbed to hunt for nests in the trees above . |