Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] her [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 | My mum was wearing a sort of large red sack and a conical hat that made her look like a gnome in a pantomime . |
| 3 | Bravely , she shut her mind as firmly as she could against the fears that kept crowding in on her as she hurried through the shadows cast by great trees or trod across soggy glades that made her think with a shudder of hidden bogs . |
| 4 | T. Behrens is considerably baffled by this strange case , by the question of what it was that determined Ursula 's adherence to this programme , and of what it was that caused her to bring to an end her loving friendship with Justin . |
| 5 | Attending aquafit sessions at Waterworld gave her motivation that enabled her to stick to a diet , lose weight and get her walking again … a great achievement . |
| 6 | That 's why I telephoned Eleanor last night and asked her to come to the house this morning . |
| 7 | , And much as she had disliked the old women when they were grasping at her and joking about her , she did notice that they comforted her mother , talking about her two lovely clever daughters , and made her join in a bit of a singsong and made her laugh . |
| 8 | Dr Neil registered how withdrawn she was , and once they were back home hot , sugary tea was poured down her in a constant stream , and then , despite the warmth of the day , Matey put a shawl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 . |
| 9 | She took Alice to the sitting-room , and made her get inside the sleeping-bag . |
| 10 | The ensemble gave her a slinky , model-like elegance and made her feel like an actress playing a part … a nightclub scene , probably … instead of her normal self . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I walked inside , came upstairs … and found her lying on the bed . |
| 13 | Isa Blagden , arriving one day to look over the Casa Guidi , called on Wilson and found her lying in a dark room , huddled under the covers of her bed , the Bible in her hand and tears streaming down her face . |
| 14 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | I sat with her , gave her my drink bottle , stuffed her with glucose and encouraged her to rest for a while . |
| 20 | He paused in the doorway and watched her go into a dim hall , calling , ‘ Hoo-hoo ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | With swift steps he crossed to the glazed door and saw her crouched before a flowerbed , apparently engrossed in the task of tugging weeds from between the flowering rose bushes . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 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 . |