Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
| 2 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 3 | Now a widow , Mabel has made her home in the compact whitewashed building , tucked in one of Whitby 's historic yards . |
| 4 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 6 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 7 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |
| 8 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 9 | Its crassness repelled her but it slid inside her because she recognized it as her name and suddenly there was a dark pit , a chasm , a void , and the gravity of being dragged her down into the dark heart of weight . |
| 10 | They manhandled her out of the vehicle and through the front doors , down the corridor and into the small , windowless and empty room that had become her home for the last nine hours . |
| 11 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 12 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 13 | Yet the glimpse of her on that brief video had n't brought her back with the sharp focus that I craved . |
| 14 | This time he did n't throw her down with a fury but gently laid her down among the downy pillows and started to strip off his shirt . |
| 15 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 16 | He would have escorted her back to the Old Rectory and then , a minor social obligation performed , turned with relief to walk alone to the abbey , drawing his solitude around him like a cloak . |
| 17 | One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs . |
| 18 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 19 | Mrs Zamzam had left her home on the other side of those hills more than three decades earlier and she had never been back . |
| 20 | She , they should of put her in for the intermediate |
| 21 | Her wisps of belief in an after-life had deserted her irrevocably with the flying bomb . |
| 22 | So far I 've kept her away from the secret files . |
| 23 | It was seven and the night nurse had already begun her round at the other side of the house when he slipped downstairs . |
| 24 | Before its publication Goodwin had sent her off to the British Museum to research the old Black Dwarf . |
| 25 | At first Dinah had smacked her hard on the bare bottom with her thin strong hand . |