Example sentences of "had [verb] she [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taught her much over the years . |
| 2 | He had hustled her out of the kitchen into the boudoir and kissed her on the lips , slipping his arm round her waist . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Last night 's bombing had caught her unawares in the West End . |
| 5 | The other woman had caught her completely on the raw with her mention of the man she had seen Adam with , though to be honest she could n't really have said why . |
| 6 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 7 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 8 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 9 | Maggie was even more startled to find him alone when she came in and instantly relieved that she had n't allowed the boy who had seen her home from the village further than the road gate . |
| 10 | He had seen her perfectly in the light from the passage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The year before she had missed some exams because her mother had chucked her out of the house for coming in too late at night . |
| 13 | I had visited her often in the London hospital where vain efforts were made to stop the spread of cancer . |
| 14 | The preacherman had hauled her out of the Feelgood and battered her face against the road . |
| 15 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was very hard indeed to believe she had walked in there with a wolf creature and that he had drawn her down onto the forest floor and made love to her … |
| 18 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 19 | Still she could hear her own cries , as she had begged to be released — but nay , he had flung her down on the stone floor and leaned over her . |
| 20 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 21 | You just said we had to leave her out of the conversation ! ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | More than anything , she remembered her feeling of helplessness , the total loss of control , as Joe had dragged her along toward the station . |
| 24 | No snap of the fingers was going to break this spell , her complacency and her inertia had locked her deep into the circle of assumptions . |
| 25 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |
| 26 | The next thing she knew , Miss Hardbroom had pulled her out of the pocket and plonked her unceremoniously into a high-sided glass jar . |
| 27 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 28 | Fernando had driven her all over the island . |
| 29 | Mary 's offer had been rejected without their thinking twice about it and she and Adam had said goodbye in a cool , offhand sort of way and Rufus had driven her off to the station in Goblander . |
| 30 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |