Example sentences of "[vb past] her [adv] [prep] the [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 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 . |
| 4 | Less than two hours later , a city-centre taxi let her out under the lighted awning of the hotel by the park . |
| 5 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 6 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 7 | Anger enabled her to see clearly now and drove her straight to the relevant point , eschewing futile denials . |
| 8 | Taxi driver Alan Macdonald was so enraged by Linda 's story that he drove her straight to the Daily Mirror . |
| 9 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | Then one of them held her , threw her on to the dry dirt road and started to undo his belt . |
| 14 | This shocked her suddenly , shook her back into the real world and changed the entire course of the interview . |
| 15 | Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | With her mind muzzy from sleep and cold , instinct alone turned her away from the Welsh Back . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Gesner beckoned her forward to the open car window . |
| 20 | Lorimer grinned and beckoned her over to the long windows . |
| 21 | He swung her round to the happy music , and his hand held her close , but there was no lightness in their steps . |
| 22 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 23 | We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door . |
| 24 | He placed the proofs on the desk , refused Alice Mair 's offer of coffee and followed her back to the front door . |
| 25 | It was a timely realisation , and cured her instantly of the lingering dream state the drive had produced in her . |
| 26 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 27 | But in Anselm 's eyes , her wearing of the veil bound her irretrievably to the monastic life : to draw back now was to take the road to damnation . |
| 28 | He pulled her away from the driving jet of water . |
| 29 | His mouth twisted into a devastating smile , and he pulled her outside into the warm evening sunshine . |
| 30 | A tallish hummock loomed , and he pulled her down into the wet grass behind it . |