Example sentences of "[verb] her [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hands swept boldly over her body , pushing aside her flimsy robe to scorch her trembling skin with his touch , and she pressed closer still , aching for more of the devastating fire . |
| 2 | It reached almost unbroken from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Natufian , enabling her to impose order on the hitherto incoherent archaeology of the Levant ( D. Garrod and D. M. A. Bate , The Stone Age of Mount Carmel , 1937 ) . |
| 3 | I was trying to tempt her to take part in a so-called vox-pop . |
| 4 | The princely sum of one guinea a month was agreed on , and though it was not as much as Beth would have liked , it was a welcome increase , and one that positively staggered her disbelieving husband . |
| 5 | He cupped her face in his hands , moaning softly as he drew her resisting body towards him . |
| 6 | ‘ It is n't a silly little thing to me , ’ almost shouted her incensed husband . |
| 7 | Always generous , he invited her to drink coffee in the evening and she never saw him drunk . |
| 8 | Once , in the lunch hour , he invited her to accompany Bunny and himself to church . |
| 9 | She described her working experience as ‘ worse than anything I had ever imagined ’ . |
| 10 | Marlin had not been pleased to know that one of her ex-lovers had attempted to play hero in his own apartment , and he would n't have been happy to find her making contact with Gentle at two in the morning . |
| 11 | Kylie Minogue was eleven , at school in Melbourne , and launching her acting career with a mini-series , Skyways . |
| 12 | Fiona , 43 , had surgery earlier this year to tighten her sagging jawline . |
| 13 | Obviously , this was what Emma wanted to read , but one would have expected her to take advantage of her rival Ælfgifu of Northampton 's absence from England to press Harthacnut 's case with his father , and it seems significant that both the Chronicle C and E texts consider Harold 's claim and identity questionable , that the Oxford meeting which followed Cnut 's death decided that he should hold the country for himself and his brother , and that Emma was allowed to reside in Winchester with Harthacnut 's housecarls to keep Wessex for him . |
| 14 | But Stefano just wants her to play tennis . |
| 15 | This thought , combined with the hurt of his having forgotten her family so completely , helped her to remain calm . |
| 16 | But it helped her to stop thinking . |
| 17 | She paid for my mother to take French lessons and helped her find work as a seamstress with various drapers in the city . |
| 18 | The last person she needed was fitzAlan , but an attendant of humble rank would n't matter , if it helped her to obtain permission to go into the town . |
| 19 | So Ruth wrote at once , asking Maria to postpone her visit and bidding her take care of herself . |
| 20 | Furious at such perfection , she turned Arachne into a spider , condemning her to spin thread from her own body and to be weaving a web for ever after . |
| 21 | cease her give way wow , ma what ? |
| 22 | As I fought for bar space to order the drinks , I looked over my shoulder and caught her making hand signals to a bunch of her friends camped on the stairs leading up to the Ladies ' toilets . |
| 23 | ACTRESS Julia Roberts should make Pretty Woman 2 quickly to revive her flagging career , a magazine survey has urged . |
| 24 | Her Sierra covers her demanding journey briskly and economically . |
| 25 | Nor would her own mother have permitted her to marry Memet . |
| 26 | But he stopped her stammering mouth with a kiss . |
| 27 | Gina paused to pass her approving gaze around the rest of the room . |
| 28 | One friend , who has a job as well as a family of five , has her widowed mother living round one corner and her mother-in-law round the other . |
| 29 | His grin had gone , and he was returning her hating look with no quarter given . |
| 30 | She dropped her lifted velvet skirts ( she had been warming her bottom in front of the fire burning fiercely in its basket grate ) as the girls appeared . |