Example sentences of "[vb past] her [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then Janet overtook her just before the finishing line . |
| 2 | Elvis had then travelled forwards in time , locating each potential mother of the Anti-Christ and wooed her away from the Satanic father to be . |
| 3 | She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding . |
| 4 | She began to take a different route so that she approached her home from the other end of Magdalen Street and avoided a meeting with John . |
| 5 | Less than two hours later , a city-centre taxi let her out under the lighted awning of the hotel by the park . |
| 6 | Thunder woke her out of a fitful sleep . |
| 7 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 8 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 9 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 10 | Anger enabled her to see clearly now and drove her straight to the relevant point , eschewing futile denials . |
| 11 | Taxi driver Alan Macdonald was so enraged by Linda 's story that he drove her straight to the Daily Mirror . |
| 12 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 13 | He drove her back in a battered silver sports car . |
| 14 | Like a game-cock in arrogance , he lifted her back across the dividing space and pulling away the collar of her , inevitably musquash , fur coat , he dropped his mouth low on the back of her neck , drawing kisses to and fro and nibbling gently across it . |
| 15 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 16 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 17 | She was concentrating with exaggerated passion upon her own blind , sensitive footsteps when her instep caught in some solid , clinging mass , and threw her forward in a clumsy , crippling stumble , from which she recovered strongly , and kept her balance . |
| 18 | Then one of them held her , threw her on to the dry dirt road and started to undo his belt . |
| 19 | We have some friends whose 21-year-old daughter was murdered by a boyfriend who threw her out of a third-storey window . |
| 20 | He shook her off with an irritable gesture and turned to the gendarme . |
| 21 | This shocked her suddenly , shook her back into the real world and changed the entire course of the interview . |
| 22 | Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | With her mind muzzy from sleep and cold , instinct alone turned her away from the Welsh Back . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll see you at the office on Monday morning , ’ Damian told her as he walked her home in the hot , humid night to her own villa next door and cicadas buzzed metallically as they walked past the fountain . |
| 25 | The next thing she knew , Miss Hardbroom had pulled her out of the pocket and plonked her unceremoniously into a high-sided glass jar . |
| 26 | ‘ Cut it out , Maria , ’ he ordered her curtly after a few seconds in which he seemed to hold his breath . |
| 27 | Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child . |
| 28 | Gesner beckoned her forward to the open car window . |
| 29 | Lorimer grinned and beckoned her over to the long windows . |
| 30 | In these crates — ’ he beckoned her over with a cool , authoritative wave ‘ — is the very latest ‘ state of the art ’ satellite communication system imported from France . |