Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone . |
| 2 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 7 | To her astonishment , he suddenly prodded her in the ribs . |
| 8 | The merchant 's wife was about to rise but Cranston gently touched her on the shoulder . |
| 9 | Terror suddenly hit her like an iron arrow in the breastbone and her throat seized up and she choked . |
| 10 | When she opened the boot of her car to dump her shopping inside , one of the thieves suddenly grabbed her round the neck from behind . |
| 11 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |
| 12 | I suddenly saw her as the shuttlecock in the game her husband is playing with his inamorata . |
| 13 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 14 | I only saw her for a day or two . ’ |
| 15 | Locked in a marriage with a wife who showed increasing signs of mental instability and whose health constantly brought her to the point of death , exhausted in his work and fearing for his own life and sanity , Eliot 's view of relations between the sexes is at its bleakest , as is shown not least in the epigraphs , which were originally further universalized by including ( in the draft synopsis ) , |
| 16 | He suddenly seized her under the armpits and swung her round and round , until she was breathless . |
| 17 | She took a couple of tentative steps but he reached out and swiftly held her by the shoulders . |
| 18 | His arms he folded round her , and so held her for a moment passive ; then with a sudden sharp sigh she embraced him again , quivering , and lifted her mouth to him ravenously . |
| 19 | But Pappy , who was always so willing to engage with her for hours and talk about school work or play chess , only patted her on the shoulder and fobbed her off with platitudes when the question of her mother came up . |
| 20 | She had vowed to fight for Roman 's love , but how could she when he only wanted her for a stopgap while Dana was away ? |
| 21 | Mrs Mantini only wanted her in the afternoons and all day Saturday . |
| 22 | And the thought of her doing something right dropped her with the suddenness of beer-induced mood . |
| 23 | ‘ It was because you instinctively recognised her as a rival . |
| 24 | When pulled tight it effectively secured her to the bench , and as it passed behind her knees , so her legs were strapped in the position where her feet were above her head . |
| 25 | When he finally got her on the phone , she only asked him how he was then said she had to rush , and put the receiver down before he had time to tell her . |
| 26 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 27 | The butler hesitated , casting a malignant look at Sausage , who was quietly gnawing the mat , but finally showed her into the drawing-room where the whole family was having tea . |
| 28 | The situation was so dreadful , so nightmarish , their details did not matter , they just confronted her as an abomination which was capable of driving her mad . |
| 29 | This time Roman said nothing , just observed her with a brooding air of deliberation , for so long that she felt quite faint with nervous tension . |
| 30 | My father soon followed her to the grave . |