Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Rachel kneels behind me whispering in my ear , ‘ You never told me about Jancey ’ and I tell her she 's just the woman next door and Rachel says , ‘ Oh yeah ? ’ and I push her onto her back and sit astride her in the dark . |
2 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
3 | She kicked out at him as he covered her body with his but he held her tight and rolled with her into the protection of the trees . |
4 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
5 | He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’ |
6 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |
7 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
8 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
9 | After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses . |
10 | She was delighted to see me , as it meant she would not have to go on her own , and she stood over me while , complaining bitterly , I changed into my jacket and returned with her to the revels . |
11 | He stood up and walked beside her to the edge of the wood where his horse was tethered . |
12 | Penry sighed , picked her up , and walked with her to the door . |
13 | The Doctor stepped back , watched her for a moment , and walked round her to the console at which Britta was working . |
14 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
15 | ‘ Sweet … shy … sad ’ … the same words are echoed when you speak of Hannah to those who lived and farmed alongside her over the years . |
16 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
17 | Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings . |
18 | Then , stretching out one hand , he pushed her very gently to one side and strode past her into the living-room . |
19 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |
20 | ‘ Now th'can go out , ’ he said and went with her into the shadow-filled yard ; one long arm guiding her with relentless force past the lighted windows of the inn , past the well and a small cart , past James Lambert walking shakily towards the back door of the inn , to a dark corner behind a group of empty ale kegs . |
21 | In the spring , almost without knowing how it happened , she accepted Rachel 's invitation to go and live with her in the new house she was buying in London . |
22 | As he turned his attention to a woman who was fumbling with her purse , I ducked my head and squeezed behind her through the door and into the crowded bus . |
23 | The metal body jumped and bucketed beneath her on the ruts . |
24 | The voice was that of a bespectacled man of indeterminate age and appearance wearing a parka coat and standing behind her in the queue . |
25 | As it was , he clenched his fist and glared at her across the gulf that divided them . |
26 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
27 | After she had signed in , Brian Everthorpe directed her to the section of the car park reserved for visitors , and waited for her at the entrance to the Administration Block . |
28 | Certainly Stock , Aitken and Waterman and the guardian angel figure of manager Terry Blamey were waiting in the wings , but would they understand and care for her in the same way ? |
29 | Earlier , Sharon Freda McLean denied killing Linda McMullen and said that it was co-defendant Lisa Burgess who started to kick and stamp on her in the Wrexham Peace Gardens . |
30 | That evening she asked Martha to stay and talk to her beside the fire after supper . |