Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 2 | He insinuated his right hand under her arm and tried to ease her towards the Bayswater Road . |
| 3 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 4 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 5 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 6 | She looked at her daughter 's lovely face , and tried to warn her of the dangers of love , but the girl did not listen . |
| 7 | Oh who cares , I thought , and tried to bundle her into the bag right away . |
| 8 | She leant in and stooped to take her under the arms ; like a peach tree blighted by leafcurl , Sycorax lay tinder-dry in a narrow crescent , her body hardly filling the hammock 's web . |
| 9 | In two long strides , Guy abandoned his leaning position by the fireplace and came to take her by the shoulders , shaking her roughly . |
| 10 | Franz pulled Therese 's arm through his and began to lead her up the track towards the car park , but she stopped and looked back . |
| 11 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
| 12 | Then he pinned her against the wall , took up a karate stance and began punching her in the breast and armpit . |
| 13 | Releasing her shoulders , he took a firm grip on her arm and began steering her towards the steps down to the lawn . |
| 14 | You could n't just walk into it casually , as he had done , drop home from the office and decide to eradicate her on the spur of the moment . |
| 15 | When the young men came back and started to film her in the kitchen , she forgot every word she had learned . |
| 16 | He led her inside and left her at one side of the room , walking softly away and stopping to face her at the other side . |
| 17 | The Tasmanian Law Reform Commission expressed the matter even more forcefully : ‘ The present focus on consent virtually demands that a defence counsel who is doing his job properly must challenge the sexual conduct and personal integrity of the complainant and attempt to present her in the most unfavourable light . ’ |
| 18 | Simon , however , would n't hear of it , and had joined her in the kitchen to help with the dishes . |
| 19 | Parkin gave a brief account of the previous night in his bass voice , saying that he had spoken briefly to Nicola at the pub outside TV London before the party started , and had spotted her in the boardroom . |
| 20 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 21 | In my view that course of conduct by the landlord seriously interfered with the tenant 's proper freedom of action in exercising her right of possession , and tended to deprive her of the full benefit of it , and was an invasion of her rights as tenant to remain in possession undisturbed , and so would in itself constitute a breach of covenant , even if there were no direct physical interference with the tenant 's possession and enjoyment . |