Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] she [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd rather throw her off the Empire State Building !
2 Yet I can only picture her in the posture of Candice Riberon in Le Métro lying on her back , her face caught in an agony of uncertain provenance .
3 We had better take her to the mortuary , before the daily hordes come pouring in . ’
4 ‘ You 'd better get her to the hospital , ’ said Comfort .
5 She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground .
6 But he could n't just leave her at the station .
7 He could hardly throw her off the island .
8 Carole King , the sharpest female lyricist of all time , ponders going all the way and whether her lover would still respect her in the morning .
9 ‘ She never mentioned my having got stuck here as well , but I could hardly look her in the face .
10 He could n't possibly see her in the darkness , but she still shrank down in the seat — then felt her eyes widen when he stripped off his jacket and started to unbutton his shirt .
11 Defries could hardly hear her over the rain .
12 The superior knowledge of the teacher does not automatically invest her with the right to place students in an intellectual straitjacket , nor does volunteering to be a nurse mean that one has automatically signed away one 's rights as a human being .
13 You 'll probably see her in the morning .
14 This would probably take her below the pass limit , although all these various low-scoring characteristics are simply symptoms of the single factor that she has recently been left by her husband .
15 You 'll probably find her in the tent over there — or perhaps that one . ’
16 For example , the child who has been taught and has learned to make his babysitter laugh whenever he plays with her can not also hit her over the head with a toy when he is playing with her .
17 It left her with a great admiration for the contemplatives , even if God still has to forcibly take her by the scruff of the neck and put tier in a position where she has no option but to be still on occasion .
18 Though nothing can really compensate her for the pain and shock of what happened .
19 I did n't really like her from the start , never mind feeling any love for her .
20 She was more rueful than ever , so that Charles stopped dancing and if he did n't quite haul her off the dance floor , he was rather brusque .
21 It had nothing to do with the fact that — that man — had thought it necessary to almost drag her to the top .
22 Why had he refused to let them meet her when they would certainly see her at the hacienda ?
23 The meaning of the word ‘ immediate ’ is likely to give rise to dispute in the courts , but it may be assumed that if , for example , a man threatens a woman that unless she has sexual intercourse with him , he will violently assault her in the presence of her children when they return home the following day , this will not be rape under the Committee 's proposals .
24 He 'll never forgive her for the life she has spent and she wo n't let him see what she 's come to at the end of it !
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