Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tales from Lavender Shoes ( TS405 — two cassettes ; 1 hour 50 minutes ) read by Jill Shilling is from the pen of Alison Uttley , a favourite writer for several generations of children , who enjoy her stories from the age of five or even younger and go on enjoying her for years . |
| 2 | Despite the Encomiast 's tale of how Cnut 's men , searching far and wide for a suitable wife , eventually found her in Normandy , it may be , as Keynes has argued , that Emma had remained in England throughout . |
| 3 | Molly had the same feeling of doom she remembered when her father wrote to say he 'd be coming down to see her at school and would take her out to tea , so she could meet a ‘ new friend ’ . |
| 4 | Sunday and they were , say they were going down to see her in hospital , I mean that 's terrible one arm and living on your own , I do n't know how she 'll manage |
| 5 | Railway Tavern where Ted sometimes drops in to meet her on Friday nights . |
| 6 | Hitherto he had only visualized her through Gabriel 's eyes , and he saw now that his little friend was not an accurate describer . |
| 7 | ‘ She 'll do , I only want her for breeding , ’ the nasty woman said . |
| 8 | For there was absolutely no need at all for him to walk so close to where she was walking or to bump into her and so catch her off balance — the end result being that he had his arms around her , as if to save her , before she could stop him . |
| 9 | Soon-Yi was responding to a televised statement by Allen that he only sees her on weekends and holidays . |
| 10 | As I said , I only know her by sight , and , now you mention it , I have n't seen her around lately . ’ |
| 11 | In fact she agreed cheerfully that she liked to see the whites of the eyes of any constable stupid enough to encounter her with tie undone or shirt unbuttoned . |
| 12 | He left her for a time to find prey and brought back a hare from the moorland tops , tearing it up and gently feeding her with parts of it . |
| 13 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 14 | God knew they were powerful enough to knock her into oblivion . |
| 15 | Fair enough — but why had the planets been cruel enough to land her in partnership with the one man in the universe who could drive her crazy with wanting , even as he was — well , just driving her crazy ! |
| 16 | You 'd better invite her to lunch . ’ |
| 17 | We began to ‘ talk ’ , though my ‘ kitchen Arabic ’ was only good enough to ply her with questions and to catch perhaps half of the answers . |
| 18 | Well , I was thinking we could perhaps take her to Blagden Hall now that 's open . |
| 19 | With that homely air of perplexed affection that had so long endeared her to Louisa 's heart , she gave voice to a remaining consideration . |
| 20 | Sarah Anne Burke was critically ill last night after being found lying in her bed covered in blood by a care assistant who went in to wake her for breakfast . |
| 21 | She was vaguely conscious of passing through occasional stations but she did n't wake up until a soft shaking of her shoulder gently brought her to life . |
| 22 | As Nancy slid the first tape into her video machine I settled down to watch her at work , but , throughout , the advice offered me on the screen was interspersed with more from the sofa next to me , where she sat eagerly adding a tumult of tips to those already being relayed . |
| 23 | It had all put her in Glyn 's power somehow and she no longer had that feeling of independence she had fought so hard to gain . |
| 24 | She was going on to recall how yesterday she had thought of Vendelin Gajdusek 's being in Prague , when in actual fact , had she known it , he had been sitting right there beside her driving her back to Mariánské Láznë , when he suddenly gave her near heart failure by challenging , out of the blue ‘ I thought you said your name was Fabia ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ She has made a super fitness video and the advance royalties together with her earnings from a Swedish TV chat show have helped financially , but they are not enough to maintain her in Beverly Hills luxury . |
| 26 | It did n't take long to get her under control . ’ |
| 27 | No , perhaps only enough to get her to Boston and a little on top . |
| 28 | And as she looked into his eyes , again she remembered the revelation that had so taken her by surprise . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'd better get her into bed , ’ Otley urged , ‘ before she goes sleepwalking down to the river and falls in . ’ |
| 30 | You 'll only frighten her to death . ’ |