Example sentences of "[vb past] her [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Some sense of duty remained and I visited her quite regularly . |
2 | Folding her against him , he gave a long sigh , then moved her back so that he could look into her face . |
3 | ‘ We moved her there just before lunch when she came to . ’ |
4 | He turned over on his back and drew her up so that her head lay on his shoulder . |
5 | How could she fear this man who cradled her so tenderly , whose much greater strength would only be used to protect her ? |
6 | This work involved her in both recruitment and welfare . |
7 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
8 | When Ludo returned , he found her still dreamily lying on the bed . |
9 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
10 | Did you ever meet a mother who 's complained that her child phoned her too often ? |
11 | Our lookout man on the forecastle reported her as close to our port bow , where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her as did our quarter-deck midshipman , who was sent forward at once to the forecastle to report back . |
12 | Ruth jumped to her feet , bitterly disappointed that he dismissed her so suddenly , but determined not to show it . |
13 | He had dark eyes , thickly lashed and they regarded her steadily almost as if he knew her . |
14 | He caught her up outside and snatched at her arm . |
15 | His response caught her completely unawares . |
16 | She approached her home again , and entered noisily and tearfully . |
17 | Nan-Nan let her down badly . |
18 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
19 | After Leonora 's stitches were removed , painlessly , to her relief , Penry pronounced her well enough to help with his articles , since typing proved to be another of her accomplishments . |
20 | She half-rose at one point , but he bore her down again . |
21 | ‘ Had a bust-up in the late fifties when he beat her up so badly he was sent to jail . ’ |
22 | He studied her more closely . |
23 | The light , mocking note in his voice was acutely disturbing , as was the gleam in those deeply hooded granite-grey eyes as they studied her so intently . |
24 | To cut it short , she found her mother , who rejected her yet again . ’ |
25 | The sight of its timbered cottages , built haphazard round an oblong green , delighted her even then ; and she noticed with an inward smile that there was a duckpond — with weed on it , too ! |
26 | He drove her sedately home . |
27 | Robyn wandered outside , alone with her thoughts and her anger for another hour , until hunger and a curious desire to see Luke again drove her back indoors . |
28 | ‘ He drove her back here this morning and she has now been seen by a doctor . ’ |
29 | She stepped off the pavement , and a car with squealing brakes drove her back again , frightened and flustered . |
30 | He fended her off simply by the expedient of grasping her wrists , holding her at a distance so that she could n't even contrive to kick his shins . |