Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] she on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her . |
| 2 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 3 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 4 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 5 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 6 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 7 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 8 | She is pictured with boyfriend , operations supervisor at the computer centre , who invited to join her on the two-day trip . |
| 9 | She now hopes that the world will no longer expect to see her on the arm of her husband , hugging or kissing him in public , behaving like a loving wife . |
| 10 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 11 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 12 | The kitchen and the one spare bedroom were constantly , noisily occupied , the doorbell rang at all hours , and once , answering it , a man she had never seen struck her on the side of the head with an empty bottle and told her to leave his wife alone . |
| 13 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 14 | From America , how earnestly he 'd longed to reach her on the telephone ! |
| 15 | You could n't just walk into it casually , as he had done , drop home from the office and decide to eradicate her on the spur of the moment . |
| 16 | He was longing to ask Emily more about Vic , but having put her on the spot , he felt that this was not the right moment . |
| 17 | It was hoped to refloat her on the next high water at 2120 and the Greek master had requested lifeboat assistance . |
| 18 | He agreed to marry her on the understanding that he could bow out if and when something better turned up . |
| 19 | ‘ I could go out and conquer an entire army , ’ he told her , bending to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 20 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 21 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 22 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
| 23 | She gave a little shiver as a goose ran over her grave , and stroked Cas and Poll , who had joined her on the swing-seat . |
| 24 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |
| 25 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 26 | That quite compensated for the insult he had offered her on the stairs . |
| 27 | When Michele had settled her on the swing-seat , her legs up , her back against one padded arm , he sat down on a bench opposite and , eyes narrowed against the sun , invited , ‘ Go ahead . ’ |
| 28 | From out of nowhere , Ruth remembered Dick Parker : but not , this time , the pleasure of her union with him , only the pain it had brought her on the Christmas Eve following . |
| 29 | However , after a couple of dances had elapsed , Clara thought she spotted the civilized young man who had assisted her on the Channel crossing ; once she had spotted him she turned rigidly away , so deep was her horror of imitating Janice 's conduct , but she lost nothing by it , for within a couple of minutes he presented himself , courteously , at her elbow . |
| 30 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |