Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] her [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was sheer , blind gut instinct that made her go to the porter 's lodge and lie . |
| 2 | I did n't know her at all , other than to see her go into the house and out of the house . |
| 3 | In both novels the heroine undertakes a search for her identity that requires her to navigate between the attractions of two men who represent two different attitudes to life . |
| 4 | That 's why I telephoned Eleanor last night and asked her to come to the house this morning . |
| 5 | I saw her twice between that Friday in Bamford and seeing her silhouetted on the blind on Christmas Day . ’ |
| 6 | Dr Neil registered how withdrawn she was , and once they were back home hot , sugary tea was poured down her in a constant stream , and then , despite the warmth of the day , Matey put a shawl around her shoulders and made her sit near the fire . |
| 7 | She took Alice to the sitting-room , and made her get inside the sleeping-bag . |
| 8 | Her brain raced over and over what her mother would say , how awful she would feel , what she ought to do , until she felt that the movement in her head would spin her off the bed and send her whirling round the room . |
| 9 | When Ludovico came back to the apartment with food for lunch and found her stripped to the waist , washing herself in the cracked kitchen sink , he immediately started making love to her , pushing her back until the taps dug into her . |
| 10 | I walked inside , came upstairs … and found her lying on the bed . |
| 11 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 12 | In the Australian bush in the early 1930s , my mother-to-be was the daughter of a locomotive driver who watched her like a hawk and forbade her to go to the crasser ends of town . |
| 13 | And then , instead of hiding until the passage was clear , fitzAlan had given her a shove and told her to wait in the last cubicle . |
| 14 | She was sitting on the bed cuddling Carla when her mother came in and told her to go to the shops and get some bits and pieces . |
| 15 | Rachaela had not offered her anything to drink , and let her go to the door unaided , pulling on her ridiculous gloves , until she looked like a parody of a bear . |
| 16 | She made to push blindly past him , and to her vague surprise he stood back slowly , and let her pass into the hall , his eyes shuttered , his mouth grim . |
| 17 | Sarah likes to build up a relationship with a woman before she has her baby , using acupuncture to relax her , to treat any pregnancy ailments and to help her recover after the birth . |
| 18 | She was able to roam further afield now , for Kit Everard felt he could gamble on her honour ( he hoped she was becoming attached to him too ) , and allowed her to walk on the beach by herself , and swim out to sea , even though he realised it meant she could slip out of the compound , for the sections of the stockade that he had left till last would enclose the shore . |
| 19 | The Volvo fared little better but Donna closed her eyes tightly as the impact hurled her forward again and sent her crashing against the steering column with enough force to knock the breath from her . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a legend which says that , once upon a time , a handsome and passionate Moorish king won the hand of a lovely princess from a northern country and brought her to live on the Algarve , ’ Vitor explained . |
| 21 | Barton was keeping the info for a rainy day and he would ring his secretary in the morning and ask her to look in the paper 's library for any cuttings on Amaranth Wilikins . |
| 22 | The radio was on in the living-room , he entered and saw her lying on the floor , When he knelt down and touched her face it was warm , and she moved a little . |
| 23 | His eyes narrowed and flicked briefly to the open box behind her , and suddenly , with an appalling cramping of her stomach , Meredith knew that his glance had betrayed his true purpose in pretending to want her and making her flee from the vault without properly investigating its secrets . |
| 24 | Hours later , an employee at the funeral home found faint signs that she was still breathing and had her rushed to the hospital in what the funeral home owner said could be nothing but ‘ a miracle ’ . |
| 25 | I 'm thinking of telling my mum what I done and telling her to go to the doctor and tell the doctor that I 'm doing stupid things and that , to get me put away . |
| 26 | And when she heard Gloria outside rattling the hen-house door , she screamed it again and again till Gloria managed to get the latch undone and came in and dragged her yelling through the droppings and feathers and washed her face under the water pump and dried it on her hanky . |
| 27 | The court heard how in February 1977 he 'd jumped into Janie 's car while it was parked in West London and forced her to drive to the countryside at knife point . |
| 28 | The man calmly walked all over the child 's body with his heavy boots , and left her screaming on the ground . |
| 29 | They tied her up and left her lying on the lounge floor . |
| 30 | When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone . |