Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 2 | The other woman had caught her completely on the raw with her mention of the man she had seen Adam with , though to be honest she could n't really have said why . |
| 3 | Last night 's bombing had caught her unawares in the West End . |
| 4 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 5 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 6 | His tone suggested he 'd caught her out in some minor misdemeanour , Loretta thought angrily — putting penny coins in a parking meter , or dodging fares on the underground . |
| 7 | THE wife of golf star Fred Couples claims he has frozen her out of their marriage — and she intends to make him pay for it . |
| 8 | He had picked her up of intent , had followed her into this inn for some purpose of his own . |
| 9 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 10 | They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her . |
| 11 | But he would n't do that now , he had n't picked her up for twelve years . |
| 12 | Until now he had always picked her up from the hospital . |
| 13 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 14 | The family had just picked her up from hospital in Oxford and were taking her home to Swindon . |
| 15 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 16 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 17 | For a moment they struggled with each other 's clothing , tearing at the lacing , freeing themselves , and then he had lifted her on to him and was thrusting deep into her , her legs wrapped about his back , her pelvis pushing down urgently to meet his movements . |
| 18 | Out of the kindness of their enormous hearts , the giants had lifted her out of her icy misery and carefully put her down in the warmer waters where she was to be found today . |
| 19 | He had expected her back by midnight at the latest , judging by the phone call and the length of the concert , so where had she been until two in the morning ? |
| 20 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 21 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 22 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
| 23 | Lisa and Jo had taken her to clinics , booked her in with midwives , read up on birth technology , warned her about smoking ; and all with an air of adult exasperation towards a wayward child . |
| 24 | It was difficult to tell , of course , whether she had always possessed an unattractive , aggressive , sullen personality , or whether rejection by her uncle in favour of Angela Morgan had tipped her over into this behaviour . |
| 25 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 26 | He had hustled her out of the kitchen into the boudoir and kissed her on the lips , slipping his arm round her waist . |
| 27 | Karen crawled into a sleeping bag at three o'clock , having last seen Jessica deep in conversation with a blonde-haired willowy type with beard and pipe who had pursued her earnestly for several hours . |
| 28 | Finally , he had felt sick at his behaviour and had dropped her off at her home with a feeling of relief that she was not the clinging type and perhaps he could avoid her in future . |
| 29 | Her father had dropped her off at her best friend 's house … . ’ |
| 30 | Marc had dropped her off at her flat in the early hours with little more being said between them . |