Example sentences of "[verb] her [adv] [prep] [art] " 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 | But long before her death my grandmother was a ghost to me , as if she was never really there , even though I visited her regularly as a child . |
| 11 | This bizarre characteristic did not disappear with the end of the war , for when I visited her home during a sugar shortage in the 1970s , I saw the dining-room mantelpiece piled high with two-pound bags — enough , surely , to satisfy the most desperate sweet-tooth for months , or even years , to come . |
| 12 | Naomi looks her straight in the eye , and demands , in a stage-whisper , ‘ Is it anything … to do with … sex ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He moved her firmly towards the hatchway . |
| 15 | Tutilo took Daalny suddenly between his hands , with grieving gentleness , and moved her aside from the doorway . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Ring the flat , will you , Myra , and ask … no , tell Dana we expect her here in an hour for a rehearsal ? |
| 18 | Puddephat had given evidence , saying Melanie Gandell had been one of his brightest students , and he had gone out of his way to encourage her academically as a result . |
| 19 | Fred breezed into the office , his lined face breaking into a disbelieving grin when he found her already behind the desk . |
| 20 | Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day . |
| 21 | " Mr Gillman 's ready for you now , " she said to the older of the women , and helped her gently into the consulting room . |
| 22 | 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- . |
| 23 | When the revolt collapsed and Judith was released , Charles rode out with his uncle Drogo bishop of Metz to escort her home to a ceremonial reception at Aachen in February 831 . |
| 24 | He regarded her steadily across the table . |
| 25 | It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped . |
| 26 | He was across the room in a stride , caught her cruelly by the shoulders . |
| 27 | He caught her once on the way in . |
| 28 | She will try to accept the fact , as she takes her mother 's ‘ elevenses ’ in to her , that any attempt she may make to start a discussion of something that might not be of immediate interest to her mother may be turned off suddenly like a switch , and will plunge her temporarily into an emotional darkness in which she will feel very much alone . |
| 29 | ‘ Happens , ’ he said gruffly , patting her gingerly on the shoulder , and striding down the track ahead of her . |
| 30 | 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 . |