Example sentences of "[verb] she [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other woman had caught her completely on the raw with her mention of the man she had seen Adam with , though to be honest she could n't really have said why . |
| 2 | Last night 's bombing had caught her unawares in the West End . |
| 3 | Trainer Richard Hannon entered her yesterday for the Hambro Countrywide Fillies Stakes at Newmarket and the Daily Mail Leisure Stakes at Lingfield on Saturday . |
| 4 | Jason Page , 17 , had already punched and kicked Daisy Castle before stabbing her twice in the chest , a St Albans Crown Court jury was told . |
| 5 | Manescu grasped her firmly by the arm as he asked his question . |
| 6 | I released her hand and grasped her firmly by the buttocks , small but ripe . |
| 7 | Ruth asked as Fernando reached down and grasped her tightly round the wrist to haul her out of the swimming-pool . |
| 8 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 9 | And then Janet overtook her just before the finishing line . |
| 10 | Naomi looks her straight in the eye , and demands , in a stage-whisper , ‘ Is it anything … to do with … sex ? ’ |
| 11 | Elvis had then travelled forwards in time , locating each potential mother of the Anti-Christ and wooed her away from the Satanic father to be . |
| 12 | He moved her firmly towards the hatchway . |
| 13 | Tutilo took Daalny suddenly between his hands , with grieving gentleness , and moved her aside from the doorway . |
| 14 | Shutting the door , he put his candle down on the nearest chair and drew her across to the glow that streamed in from the setting sun . |
| 15 | Fred breezed into the office , his lined face breaking into a disbelieving grin when he found her already behind the desk . |
| 16 | Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day . |
| 17 | " Mr Gillman 's ready for you now , " she said to the older of the women , and helped her gently into the consulting room . |
| 18 | A few weeks after their visit to the Peristrephic Panorama , her father was rowing her slowly across the serpentine lake on the neighbouring estate of Lord F- . |
| 19 | He regarded her steadily across the table . |
| 20 | It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped . |
| 21 | He was across the room in a stride , caught her cruelly by the shoulders . |
| 22 | He caught her once on the way in . |
| 23 | ‘ Happens , ’ he said gruffly , patting her gingerly on the shoulder , and striding down the track ahead of her . |
| 24 | And Preston sat there beside her , patting her ineffectually on the shoulder , saying , ‘ It 's all right , it 's all right , really , it 's all right , ’ until finally the sobbing stopped , too , and her eyes closed and she gave a great , shuddering sigh and slept . |
| 25 | She began to take a different route so that she approached her home from the other end of Magdalen Street and avoided a meeting with John . |
| 26 | Like all the maidens , in all the stories , half seduced and half petrified , she consented to Fenna 's plans and he swept her high on his great wings and bore her away over the roofs of London and higher and higher cavorting and caracolling through the star-spun night . |
| 27 | Sikes took out his gun , but realizing , even in his madness , that a shot might be heard , he beat her twice across the face with it as hard as he could . |
| 28 | Dropped her knee-deep into the Harriet Shakespeare business and asked her to think . |
| 29 | The kiss went on forever , and she offered no resistance as he swung her up into his arms and dropped her gently on the bed , coming down with her . |
| 30 | She never noticed if Alexandra was fully dressed or had stumbled straight from sleep in her night clothes but would welcome her always with the sweetest of smiles and a gentle reproof for leaving her alone . |