Example sentences of "[v-ing] her in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked Robert Urquhart and was attracted to him , even trusted him , unlike Spittals who was no doubt gleefully stabbing her in the back at that moment . |
| 2 | Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) . |
| 3 | With a shriek of delight she threw herself at Maggie , enveloping her in the warmest of embraces . |
| 4 | But he let her go , only cradling her in the circle of his arm . |
| 5 | While she was trying to do this , he went to the apartment and beat her , wounding her in the head for which she was treated at hospital . |
| 6 | Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand . |
| 7 | He paused , eyeing her in the clinical way she 'd come to recognise . |
| 8 | Then as she stepped towards his desk , a further protest on her lips , he put to her flatly , looking her in the eye , ‘ Are you afraid that , once the eighteen months are over , I might change my mind and refuse to release you ? |
| 9 | ‘ Now that we are private , ’ he said , looking her in the eyes , ‘ you may speak out openly what for some reason you did not wish to speak out before the prince . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll not try to keep me ? ’ he said warningly , looking her in the eyes without a smile . |
| 11 | I remember the scandal surrounding her in the Seventies , when she appeared to be just a naive young girl caught up in the trappings of fame . |
| 12 | They bundled her into the living room punched and threatened her with a knife , before spraying her in the face with Ammonia . |
| 13 | He was theatrical by nature , and he lavished it all on her , complimenting her in the most exuberant terms , telling her that her engagement had broken his heart irreparably . |
| 14 | He was still holding her in the loose circle of his arms and she instantly bridled at the teasing . |
| 15 | Surely any minute she would wake up and find Marc lying beside her , his arms holding her in the loving way of barely twelve hours ago ? |
| 16 | This was partly due to ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , remixed by Stock , Aitken and Waterman and her third single on the PWL label , succeeding in breaking her in the all-important American market when it climbed to number three in the US charts . |
| 17 | She was more than a little astounded , however , that , as Naylor stood facing her in the hall of her home , she should suddenly feel breathless and find that she was extending that courtesy even further . |
| 18 | The preponderance of the Church was responsible for Spain 's decadence , laming her in the race of progress . |
| 19 | What if she does n't want to be swollen to the size of an elephant with a bleeding parasite kicking her in the guts day and night ? |
| 20 | Then he pinned her against the wall , took up a karate stance and began punching her in the breast and armpit . |
| 21 | She remembered screaming , remembered one of the storm-troopers punching her in the face to stop her . |
| 22 | He raped the pregnant woman , whom he knew , at her Wigan home last autumn , after suddenly losing his temper and punching her in the face . |
| 23 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 24 | ‘ Are you … ? ’ she began , but she did n't want to believe what was staring her in the face . |
| 25 | Leith , with two very large problems staring her in the face — the mortgage and Naylor Massingham , despite his action yesterday still there metaphorically breathing down her neck — thought a denial preferable to dampening her mother 's present happy frame of mind . |
| 26 | To get out of the car to peer beneath its bonnet was not going to get her anywhere either , she knew in advance , because with her lack of mechanical knowledge the fault could be staring her in the face and she would never recognise it . |
| 27 | I love Philip , he 's a dear , but I 'm not having her in the house . ’ |
| 28 | The most glaring sin is the failure of husbands adequately to interact with their wives ' ideas , and the ultimate wrong-headedness of not consulting her in the first place . |
| 29 | Philippa felt something gripping her in the area just behind her breastbone which sent a message up to the area somewhere above her eyes which were growing tired with concentration . |
| 30 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |