Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So one day , I got a newspaper , I rolled it up and I walloped her like mad . |
| 2 | A few months after the aggravation I started her on Kali carb. 0/1 , progressing through 0/6. with steady amelioration , increasing energy and emotional well-being . |
| 3 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 4 | I saw her with black hair and I told her it was great , but she prefers to be blonde . |
| 5 | He said to Rain : ‘ She left them behind when I took her to Nice . |
| 6 | I put her in cold water till the ambulance came , but I did n't know what else to do ! ’ |
| 7 | Actually I preferred her with white hair . ’ |
| 8 | Although I take her on short trips to the shops , she ca n't cope with going too far from the house . |
| 9 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
| 10 | The , the interviewer the other day said that she was somebody stopped her in Sandy Row , at the bottom of Sandy Row , |
| 11 | Anything which involved her in unnecessary enmeshment with Vitor d'Arcos would be sturdily fended off . |
| 12 | That time , Topaz heard something in the marquis 's voice which filled her with tremulous hope . |
| 13 | CROWDS are flocking to see a painting of the Queen which shows her with grey hairs , worry lines and crows ' feet . |
| 14 | She was punched repeatedly in the face , which left her with swollen eyes and cuts in her mouth . |
| 15 | She is the first to admit that she was bitten by the Puppy Love bug from quite an early age — which stood her in good stead when it came to dealing with the opposite sex in later years . |
| 16 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 17 | She pointed out that the piebald donkey in leather boots that had for years pulled the mowing machine which cut the acres of grass at Deer Forest , was at the end of a useful life , and , in any case , the whole performance took up two working days of the farm labourer who drove her in long reins — reins thin as thread and cracked with age : there was nothing economical about that . |
| 18 | Jack Owen was a sturdy , pleasant-looking man who greeted her in friendly fashion , though there was a hint of embarrassment in his manner . |
| 19 | We met her under various guises throughout the islands : with the Bugis pirates in the Moluccas , where we cast offerings into her whirlpool ; and amongst the tribesfolk of Sumba who rely on her signal in the form of the one night each year when Sumba 's beaches briefly swarm with red sea-worm — to initiate their deadly war-sport between lance-throwing armies of mounted warriors . |
| 20 | ‘ What made me develop her along masochistic lines ? |
| 21 | Charmed too by her four cousins , their husbands and wives , all of whom treated her with instant familiarity , and their children who caroused through the house with unstoppable stamina , much to her aunt 's hilarity . |
| 22 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 23 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 24 | They brushed her like strengthless and accusing hands . |
| 25 | They thanked her in quiet voices , told her the clothes were ‘ cool ’ , but no one said they knew Francis . |
| 26 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 27 | Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others . |
| 28 | There 'd be a flogging or worse if they took her with stolen clothes . |
| 29 | Looking up with a gasp , she saw him watching her with narrowed blue eyes , his mouth a hard line . |
| 30 | They stood her in good stead when her father enrolled her at her next school , Riddlesworth Hall , two hours ' drive from Park House . |