Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 2 | She eventually found her way to the social services department . |
| 3 | In practice this rarely happened , and anyway since childhood , even before she was old enough to wear her hair in the Lock of Youth twisted over her right shoulder , she had known the location of the hidden bolt , and how to slide it . |
| 4 | No — each lady had personally placed her cake on the long table — without assistance . |
| 5 | ‘ Aaah , ’ Lucinda said again , impatiently sinking her knife into the pie crust , watching fascinated as hot brown gravy oozed out . |
| 6 | It takes time and effort for her to do this : constantly tapping her nose on the typewriter is exhausting , but then so is making her noises understood . |
| 7 | As Eve 's resentment of the family had grown , so had her interest in the cottage dwindled . |
| 8 | Anyway we 've only got her word for the whole story . |
| 9 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 10 | Her discovery did , however , although belated , do much to help her understanding of the conversation : references hitherto obscure became suddenly clear . |
| 11 | Choosing to turn a blind eye to the unlikely drama that was unfolding a few feet in front of her , she merely expressed her gratitude for the imitation topaz bangle that she 'd just unwrapped , before turning on her heels and heading downstairs to catch the special seasonal episode of Crossroads . |
| 12 | But for the moment she had to concentrate on dipping a formal curtsey to the Queen , a consideration which had greatly exercised her mind in the previous few days . |
| 13 | His touch was as she remembered it , warm and gentle , but as he gently returned her foot to the ground she again felt shy — absurdly and ridiculously shy , when she could never remember being so taken by shyness before — and she just had to look away from him while she collected herself . |
| 14 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 15 | She has toiled endlessly to keep her body in the shape it was in 20 years ago with a punishing regime of exercise and diet . |
| 16 | Maggie only repeated her question of the night before , ‘ Are you OK , Mummy ? ’ |
| 17 | Her achievements have not been forgotten , and five awards are given annually to commemorate her work in the field of nutrition and public awareness of healthy eating . |
| 18 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 19 | In any case , teaching English Literature to schoolchildren would only remind her daily of the superior satisfactions of teaching it to young adults . |
| 20 | Germany already pays a staggering 68% of the Community s income : the system of ‘ concentric circles ’ would only increase her influence over the Community even more and if the club was reduced to eight she would unavoidably become dominant . |
| 21 | He gently held her hand on the table . |
| 22 | But where she had expected harshness she felt instead only the soft warmth of his lips on her throat , and a rush of longing coursed through her entire body , strong enough to make her buckle at the knees . |
| 23 | She 'd obviously hit her head during the impact because there was a small trickle of blood on her forehead . |
| 24 | Mrs Lynn Dart , the mother of murdered Leeds teenager Julie Dart , had just completed her evidence in the trial of Michael Sams at Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 25 | Lynn Dart , the mother of murdered Leeds teenager Julie Dart , had just completed her evidence in the trial of Michael Sams at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday . |
| 26 | Mrs Coleridge may have felt that the Blue Coat School would best prepare her son for the clerical career John Coleridge had wished him to follow . |
| 27 | The piece went on to tell how Lydia , a sharp little eighteen-year-old mill-worker , who had fallen only twice , but unfortunately with two different blokes , finally got her man to the altar . |
| 28 | Wendy Vickerman , 28 , had just visited her mother in the Alderwood sheltered housing block in Newham Grange , Middlesbrough when she was confronted by three bike-riding youths . |
| 29 | Sandy was already picking her way through the garden towards the front of the house . |
| 30 | In England during the war , she literally committed suicide by refusing her food rations , thus expressing her solidarity with the starving of Europe . |