Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] her [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I asked her once about the packet . |
| 3 | Then , slowly , she fell forward and I laid her gently on the ground . |
| 4 | I checked her out with the FBI and she raised funds for the IRA in the United States — not illegal at that time — and carried the money across to her IRA contacts every month . |
| 5 | But long before her death my grandmother was a ghost to me , as if she was never really there , even though I visited her regularly as a child . |
| 6 | This bizarre characteristic did not disappear with the end of the war , for when I visited her home during a sugar shortage in the 1970s , I saw the dining-room mantelpiece piled high with two-pound bags — enough , surely , to satisfy the most desperate sweet-tooth for months , or even years , to come . |
| 7 | I steer her back towards the motel building , frog-marching her into Room 206 . |
| 8 | I mentioned her once in an interview and Perry began to cry . |
| 9 | ‘ That person is here again , Miss Grenfell , she says she has slippers for you , shall I show her in for the fitting ? ’ |
| 10 | My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew she was on this wavelength , ’ Elinor said excitedly , ‘ I believed her right from the start . ’ |
| 12 | , so I put her out in the end it erm it was surprising everybody knew what was going to happen they knew what I was going to do right when I come back in after swi place was empty they 'd got out that door before I 'd got her out the door but erm no it 's it 's very insulting . |
| 13 | The one that she had at the pool she threw on the swimming pool floor in disgust cos I put her back in the carrycot thing Yeah Ev Evelyn was saying oh will I , she said will you see me back er she said will I see you back in in the twos group ? |
| 14 | Carol had more or less righted herself by the time I let her out of the side door . |
| 15 | Later , I drove her back to the flat she shared and stood leaning against some rusted railings while she looked for her keys . |
| 16 | I look her straight in the naked eye . |
| 17 | But I hated her right from the start . |
| 18 | Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child . |
| 19 | I remember her intimately from the beginning , from the third year of the Big Step , when she was built and christened . |
| 20 | We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door . |
| 21 | Then someone pulled her back into the plane and the door closed . |
| 22 | Then I rang her up with a real ‘ he said , I said ’ story , an embroilment with a friend which had worried me . |
| 23 | When I was quite certain that she was totally relaxed and comfortable , I brought her out of the regression and out of the hypnotic state . |
| 24 | Then , placing my hands on my hips like I had seen Mum do many times when in a– temper , I looked her straight in the eyes . |
| 25 | Well they did provide her with food , but also I took her up to the phone and showed her how to get in touch with D H S S and explain the situation . |
| 26 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |
| 27 | and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm |
| 28 | For example — I feel disgusted and ashamed — I took my little girl down to my mum 's and I swear to God I remember dressing her — it was winter — but when she got to my mum 's house I took her out of the buggy and all she had on was her nappy and her socks and a blanket wrapped round her . |
| 29 | ‘ I took her there for a last relaxing evening before we threw ourselves into the election campaign . |
| 30 | I just did n't know how to cope so I sent her out of the room . |