Example sentences of "[to-vb] she [adv prt] [prep] his [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 With an abrupt muttered curse under his breath Roman came around to pull her up into his arms , subduing her struggles with iron strength .
2 ‘ Do n't go , ’ Fernando grated , clutching at her hips to pull her back against his body .
3 But even more vividly she recalled her own fall and Silas 's swift leap across the narrow stream to sweep her up into his arms .
4 He was going to kiss her , she thought wildly , he was going to bend her back over his arm and put his mouth to her throat , and she — she would close her eyes , she would arch her body to his …
5 Miriam was a part of him now ; he was unable to put her out of his mind .
6 He spent his remaining 10 years , until he died in 1954 , vainly trying to lure her back to his studio .
7 He wanted to study her without it being obvious , to match her up with his memories of the girl he 'd known .
8 Only the two ‘ star ’ dressing rooms had an extension in Clarissa 's theatre , and the Stage Door Keeper grumbled a bit as he climbed the stairs to call her down to his box by the Stage Door .
9 So too the embroidery on her smock leads the reader to turn her round in his gaze , " " al bifoore/And eek bihynde " " ( 3238 – 9 ) .
10 ‘ They do say , ’ said Caspar thrillingly , ‘ that she pursued him for positively centuries , until he gave in , purely to get her out of his way .
11 It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain .
12 The building — called the Old Manor House — was allegedly the scene of a naked ‘ wedding ceremony ’ and Miss Dale has also been at the centre of a storm surrounding payments of £4,000 made by the Treasury to help fund Chancellor Norman Lamont 's legal expenses to get her out of his London house .
13 She 'd been set up and she had thought Fernando was so desperate to have her back in his life that he had manipulated the whole thing .
14 He reeled under the well-aimed punch , and then snaked an arm out to haul her over to his towel , pinning her down with one muscular leg .
15 The man offered to take her out in his boat one day , to show her how to catch mero .
16 Whatever it was , it was like a wall between them and he was honest enough to admit to himself that most of the time he was building on it brick by brick in order to blot her out of his sight … forever .
17 She is indeed a princess ‘ out of his star ’ : all the more reason not to drag her down to his level .
  Next page