Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] her [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I walked inside , came upstairs … and found her lying on the bed .
3 I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The man calmly walked all over the child 's body with his heavy boots , and left her screaming on the ground .
8 They tied her up and left her lying on the lounge floor .
9 When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone .
10 Then he nodded , almost curtly , wheeled and left her standing in the bathroom all alone .
11 Just as Angel was about to leap on her , Luke picked her up and carried her yelling into the house .
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