Example sentences of "[verb] her [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been pressing her to move for some time . |
| 2 | He spread his hands wide in a gesture of incomprehension and invited her to make of this unexpected turn of events what she could . |
| 3 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 4 | I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her . |
| 5 | Mike let her go with rueful amusement in his dark eyes as she made her way towards the lift , having refused all offers of help with her overnight bag , which she slung over one shoulder . |
| 6 | She ‘ let her mask of moderate respectability slip yesterday ’ , it says . |
| 7 | Her owner would , I 'm sure let her go for such a good cause . |
| 8 | Kate deliberately let all control go , let her anger at this man rip through her with all the force of a forest fire . |
| 9 | Sleep the morning through , and let her dispose of all of us . ’ |
| 10 | In Jenny 's situation , the dread of violence and the potential disintegration of her parents ' marriage has made her flee from any potential aggression . |
| 11 | Out of all the boys — men — she had known , not one had made her feel like this ; so unsettled , so wanting , so — happy . |
| 12 | How could it be that this one man made her feel like this ? |
| 13 | One should not expect her to resort to military force ‘ whenever she can get away with it ’ : if nothing else , she needs to keep the world 's ‘ useful idiots ’ in business . |
| 14 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 15 | He imagined her screwed into some impossible position in her last spasm , her face looking grey and ugly on the pillow . |
| 16 | After three weeks of perch work I decided it was time to start training her to fly from other locations . |
| 17 | But I can sense her blossoming into that relaxed wakefulness you can get in the quiet hours . |
| 18 | The nuzzling continued as his lips found her own , teasing and provoking her to yearn for more depth in the caress , until suddenly he took possession of her mouth in a forceful kiss that went on and on as though it would last for ever . |
| 19 | Once conscious again , Effie began to scream , pain taking her over , and only McAllister 's soothing hands , and Dr Neil 's voice , urging her to push with each pain , stopped her from becoming a mindless howling thing on the bed , unable to help herself . |
| 20 | He could feel her seething with suppressed anger . |
| 21 | She thought more about losing the coal to Mrs Phipps than about Granny , it seemed to me then , but I expect it was the shock that caused her to react in that way . |
| 22 | Then he was pulling her down over him , turning her in his arms , twining her limbs around his own , filling up her emptiness , tending her craving with all the knowledge he possessed . |
| 23 | What had possessed her to look through those field-glasses ? |
| 24 | She has a highly interesting job which allows her to remain in close contact with patient care . |
| 25 | She could feel a coolness on her brow , and would have reached up her fingers to find out what was there , but that she was possessed by a lassitude that prevented her moving at all . |
| 26 | At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her . |
| 27 | He 'd never seen her look like that before , and when he thought of why she looked like that he wanted to throttle her . |
| 28 | And of course I 've seen her blazing in that dress of hers when she kicked off against someone . |
| 29 | Well I ca n't see her living on five pound a week can you ? |
| 30 | ‘ I can see her going for that , ’ he said . |