Example sentences of "[verb] her [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress . |
| 2 | Hands gripped her shoulders and moved her gently to one side . |
| 3 | But he would n't do that now , he had n't picked her up for twelve years . |
| 4 | Daphne , whom Cecilia suspected of being rather less well-off than she was herself , though this was not a matter to delve into , phoned her just after six on alternate evenings and she phoned Daphne on the others . |
| 5 | A disabled rider who 's accusing a horse trader of cheating her out of twelve hundred pounds says more than a hundred and fifty people may have suffered a similar fate . |
| 6 | As the music came to a thundering climax , Damian bent her back over one arm , his tough face very close to hers . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll make sure that I 'll bring her back in one piece , ’ André was saying , but Piers had turned away and gave no indication of having heard what was being said to him . |
| 8 | Bridget O'Brien 's been fighting attempts by Barclay 's Bank to repossess her home for five years and her legal victory was welcomed by others with similar problems . |
| 9 | Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me . |
| 10 | Jennifer realised that she would have to run for her train if she was to be home in time ; Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30 . |
| 11 | I 've seen her in about one programme in the last five years |
| 12 | The hysterical shrieks subsided into sobs , and Britta put her arm around Lacuna , comforting her and leading her slowly towards one of the doors in the perimeter of the chamber . |
| 13 | you can keep her down at two , so much the better . |
| 14 | But he turned her around with one swift jerk and forced her to face him . |
| 15 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 16 | I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow . |
| 17 | Mrs Grandison followed her apprehensively into one of those ubiquitous tea-shops which cater for the multitudes of office workers and others who want a cheap meal at any time of the day , and which , excellent though they are , can hardly be compared with the restaurants Mrs Grandison had been hoping to lunch in . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've had to put her off till two o'clock . |
| 19 | Jockey Helen Brennan broke her back in five places after falling from her horse . |
| 20 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 21 | Maybe you could take her out to one of those stables around Mr Morgan 's farm . |
| 22 | One thing , thought Sally-Anne , looking around her , after Ma Bailey had set her down in one of the few chairs the room possessed , was that no one here had ever done any summer cleaning , nor spring , autumn nor winter cleaning either . |
| 23 | He kept a bedside diary giving her up to five stars a day for it . |
| 24 | She was relieved , for the sake of the parish , when he rang her up in 1940 to say that he was leaving . |
| 25 | He guided her backwards to one of the posts which supported the roof . |
| 26 | Daphne tended to phone her just after six , which meant missing fifteen or twenty minutes of the news , but Cecilia never said anything about this because she would far rather miss the news than hurt Daphne . |
| 27 | I got her up to seventy-five , too . |
| 28 | He seated her firmly on one of the lights , and , without mistake or apology , put each of her feet into one of the clean boots . |
| 29 | I met her once on one of my off-duty bookshop prowls , took pity on her and gave her lunch . |
| 30 | It was not so long a walk , though it led her back in twenty minutes through a year and a half of her life , and was quick with memories both sharp and sweet . |