Example sentences of "had [verb] her [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went , and Alice sat still until she had heard her go up the stairs , and the closing of her door . |
| 2 | Ruth had heard her boasting to the Carsons . |
| 3 | On the day when Katherine came home to find the easel her father had given her collapsed on the floor and the careful copy she had been making of Vermeer 's ‘ Girl with a Mandolin' splattered with red paint , she made her decision . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'd shrivel up like walnuts , ’ she said to Karen , who had joined her to wash off the debris of the laughing fit . |
| 5 | He watched her walk away without speaking and enter the hall again ; he had expected her to come to the table to supervise Mary packing up the food . |
| 6 | The body of Elizabeth Page-Alucard , 41 , was found on Saturday by her boyfriend , Peter Hook , 25 , after he had reported her missing to the police . |
| 7 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 8 | Maureen had met her returning from the photographers ' room , discovered the keys and taken them . |
| 9 | An officer who worked alongside her for many years interpreted the fact that he had seen her kneeling at the mercy seat more than any other officer as a sign of her close relationship with God and the constant need for the kind of realignment which requires a certain humbling of oneself . |
| 10 | The friar was sure he had seen her lying in the graveyard amongst the tombs with Simon the tiler , and he a married man with three children . |
| 11 | Carlie believed everyone was out to do her in , and she had disliked Mrs Mason , the foster mother , as soon as she had seen her standing in the doorway . |
| 12 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 13 | Emily knew that her beautiful daughter had a dozen friends at school , she had seen her walking down the street when classes were over , surrounded by other girls . |
| 14 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 15 | She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | Tammuz had told her to relax into the fire , swim with it , let go . |
| 17 | Damn you , she wanted to say , suddenly hating him as she hated realising that while he had watched her reading from the Palmer & Pearson file that night — she had been oblivious that she had n't been wearing her spectacles — but not so him ! |
| 18 | The Contraalmirante had invited her to dine at the C-in-C 's residence . |
| 19 | Mr Popple had found her lying on the bathroom floor upon returning from the Lamb and Flag . |
| 20 | No doubt he had observed her talking to the Shergolds and was itching for the chance to find out what she knew . |
| 21 | As Nathan got in beside her , the Customs officer who had questioned her slid into the front passenger-seat . |
| 22 | Also , he had kept her waiting at the Old Mitre and she would have preferred him to say everything then , or telephone now , rather than trail after her . |
| 23 | It had been the hope which had kept her going through the dawn and early morning . |
| 24 | Richard had advised her to go to the police if any threats were made . |