Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Majorie gained B.Litt in 1948 and D.Phil in 1976 , and expresses gratitude to Somerville for enabling her to return to Oxford to work for this . |
| 2 | He has been pressing her to move for some time . |
| 3 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 4 | He looked at her as if challenging her to argue with him and Alyssia had the drowning feeling of someone whose control had been very efficiently whipped out of her grasp . |
| 5 | Holly-jack drew away , moonlight on evergreen causing her to shine among her fading friends . |
| 6 | ‘ We made love right up until the end , ’ he reminded her , causing her to draw in her breath raggedly . |
| 7 | ‘ In Gloucestershire at their kennels and smallholding ? ’ he questioned , causing her to warm to him that he had remembered so much . |
| 8 | He paused a beat , causing her to tense in anticipation . |
| 9 | But — ‘ more than just staff ’ , he 'd said , the memory of the words causing her to beam with pleasure . |
| 10 | So I succeeded in training her to feed on the fist . |
| 11 | After three weeks of perch work I decided it was time to start training her to fly from other locations . |
| 12 | The nuzzling continued as his lips found her own , teasing and provoking her to yearn for more depth in the caress , until suddenly he took possession of her mouth in a forceful kiss that went on and on as though it would last for ever . |
| 13 | She had no breath left to speak , and , beyond recommending her to beware of puddles , her companion wasted no words either . |
| 14 | Jenna left the meal to keep hot and went to freshen up , telling herself that she would consider it coldly and then decide , but in reality she was churned up inside , a desire to hide from this uppermost , but a deep-seated and almost morbid curiosity urging her to go to France and see the man who was nothing to her at all , not even a face to remember . |
| 15 | He loves you , ’ said Comfort , and Julia believed her as she had believed her all those years before when Comfort had been urging her to fall in love with him . |
| 16 | Once conscious again , Effie began to scream , pain taking her over , and only McAllister 's soothing hands , and Dr Neil 's voice , urging her to push with each pain , stopped her from becoming a mindless howling thing on the bed , unable to help herself . |
| 17 | Then he was pulling her down over him , turning her in his arms , twining her limbs around his own , filling up her emptiness , tending her craving with all the knowledge he possessed . |
| 18 | Cos that 's what Margaret stopped paying her paying for them did n't she June ? |
| 19 | His words startled Lucy , forcing her to say with cold dignity , ‘ I trust you do n't imagine I 'm here with the idea of setting my cap at Silas , because nothing is further from my intentions . ’ |
| 20 | It was this that had precipitated Charley 's act of violence towards Rose , whom he had grabbed as she parked her car , forcing her to drive to the van . |
| 21 | Her head pounded , forcing her to come to some decision . |
| 22 | She knew she would feel slightly better about the situation if he were forcing her to stay at his flat in London . |
| 23 | He jerked it up , forcing her to look at him . |
| 24 | She turned away , only to have him take hold of her arm , forcing her to look at him . |
| 25 | He tilted her chin upwards , forcing her to look into his predatory hawklike features , his thumb rubbing against the fullness of her lower lip . |
| 26 | He paused , holding her entrapped by the power of his presence , as her imagination formed its own pictures of the pleasures her sex had provided for him . |
| 27 | The other sister , Mary , was four years younger than Eleanor , and Froissart tells the story that Thomas took responsibility for educating Mary in the hope of persuading her to go into a nunnery , so that he would receive the entire Bohun inheritance . |
| 28 | After persuading her to dance with him , he swears to marry her . |
| 29 | Belov chatted easily , although his real talent lay in persuading her to talk without her realising that she 'd been persuaded . |
| 30 | Briefly he refused , not wishing her to know about the tears , and then they kissed . |