Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather throw her off the Empire State Building ! |
| 2 | He could n't go on seeing her in the circumstances . |
| 3 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 4 | Turning to Omi , skilfully bringing her into the conversation , and complimenting her on the way the venison had been cooked . |
| 5 | I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone . |
| 6 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |
| 7 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 8 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |
| 9 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , again , as though it were the most reasonable thing in the world , but she saw that her mother looked worried , and that doubtless Papa was behaving as he did because he had been worried about her , his darling , whom he had sent away from him , only to lose her in a foreign country — for that was what Britain was . |
| 11 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |
| 12 | Merely to connect her with the Battle of Trafalgar liquefied him a little further because it moved him . |
| 13 | ‘ Just cruising down the street , see one you fancy and literally pick her off the sidewalk — wallop , in the back of the truck . ’ |
| 14 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 15 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 16 | To her astonishment , he suddenly prodded her in the ribs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But he let her go , only cradling her in the circle of his arm . |
| 19 | ‘ I have only seen her at the funeral . |
| 20 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 21 | Yet I can only picture her in the posture of Candice Riberon in Le Métro lying on her back , her face caught in an agony of uncertain provenance . |
| 22 | The entry of Joanna , who came in to consult her about the drugs needed to replenish their stock , put an end to her melancholy reflections , and after they had decided Joanna said , ‘ When Ian comes round this evening I thought I 'd give him coffee or a drink in our sitting-room . |
| 23 | Then , blushing , she told Anne that when they had left Reece 's and were walking up Parker Street Ronald had suddenly pushed her into a shop doorway and attacked her . |
| 24 | She wondered if Ethel would relent and change her back , or whether she might be really wicked enough to leave her as a frog , for ever . |
| 25 | He had released her from his embrace , his hands merely holding her by the upper arms , and she sagged against him , trembling too violently to stand unaided , her knees buckling . |
| 26 | An hour or so was spent drafting a new outline for this second approach on the mysteries of the Coniunctio and , when she was satisfied that its thread was strong enough to guide her through the maze , she took up again the pursuit of Mercurius through the bridal-chambers of the mind . |
| 27 | She 'd imagined herself deeply in love with a man who 'd spun her impossible yarns of riches and position , only to abandon her in the end to shame and ridicule . |
| 28 | God knows , I have little enough to give her in a worldly sense . |
| 29 | The merchant 's wife was about to rise but Cranston gently touched her on the shoulder . |
| 30 | He bent down to kiss her on the lips , and Folly felt her head start to swim again as she reached up to place her hand behind his neck , drawing him down . |