Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You called your wife a tart , which is your business and hers , but you also said that if you 'd known where she 'd gone you would have caught her at it . |
| 2 | He had caught her in his arms , and there had been a soaring delight , an exchange of joy , wordless , mindless , stronger and infinitely sweeter than anything he had ever known . |
| 3 | For swiftly , and with such adroitness that Fabia felt he must have done it many times before , in no time , and before she could blink , Lubor had caught her in his arms . |
| 4 | When Justine Moritz was in this prison , the world outside had prejudged her before her trial . |
| 5 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |
| 6 | He had forgotten her in his efforts to catch up with her twin . |
| 7 | You could not have thought that I had ever considered her as my wife . |
| 8 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
| 9 | She did not understand why they should be doing this and her failure to understand reminded her of something . |
| 10 | She 'd been so angry , after seeing the first picture of him with Dara , that she 'd wanted to get rid of anything that had reminded her of their time together . |
| 11 | The blue should have reminded her of his flaming , instead of entrancing her by its own beauty , the beauty which had seemed to be utter and complete in itself . |
| 12 | The life of the camp consumed their married life , oppressed her from her hour of waking until the time she fell asleep . |
| 13 | He had lifted her into his arms before she could protest , although in truth she hardly felt in any condition to trek back up the incline towards the barn . |
| 14 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 15 | The sight of the handbag she 'd caught up as he 'd carried her from her flat and which he had tossed on to the bed gave her the glimmering of an idea . |
| 16 | He had rescued her in his own way , he had swept away the bitterness and the hurt , but he had added a hurt of his own too . |
| 17 | She had been a champion skater at St Moritz , until her pilot husband had rescued her from what was becoming a very dreary grind . |
| 18 | Then the lady told her brother that the little tailor had rescued her from her sleep and had killed the black artist and had won her hand in marriage . |
| 19 | Mrs Frizzell snatched up her property , tried wildly to wrap the books in the remains of the paper bag , dropped one of them , picked it up and fled to the cloak-room at the back of the hall , followed by the titters and sniggers of not a few ladies who , knowing the reason for her purchase of the books , could well have rescued her from her predicament , but saw no reason to do so . |
| 20 | Like a dam bursting , her feelings overwhelmed her with their sudden surge . |
| 21 | German officers — second-line supply men — searching for food and told there was none had wrenched her from her mother 's arms and , dumping her in the washing boiler on the kitchen stove , threatened to cook and eat her . |
| 22 | She looked disappointed , so Toby had obviously disarmed her with his usual charm , and had probably promised some expenses , too . |
| 23 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 24 | Unlike Napoleon 's mother , Elena Petrescu left no memorable quotation or hint that peasant-wisdom had perhaps already prepared her for her world to be turned downside-up again . |
| 25 | She remembered that Aycliffe had brought up the matter of clothes , that Benedict himself had scolded her for her nip-cheese ways . |
| 26 | She pushed it back , and wiped the same hand on the Beatrix Potter apron Harriet had made her for her birthday . |
| 27 | Few singers have ever matched her musical intelligence or her strange , foggy timbre , and her exquisite agony has made her into something of an icon . |
| 28 | The Warden had robbed her of her rightful position of importance in the drama , but at least she could make herself feel better by taking this girl down a peg or two . |
| 29 | Paula James , Matthew Glyrm 's youthful amanuensis ( after a one-year course in office routines at the technical college ) had turned up for work as usual , unaware of the events which had robbed her of her employer . |
| 30 | Finding him here had robbed her of her appetite , but she needed a coffee badly . |