Example sentences of "[verb] her [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finn helped her over a fallen-tree stump blooming with yellow fungus . |
| 2 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 3 | I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors . |
| 4 | But you must see that she says her prayers at night , Antoinette exclaimed : how else can you bring her up a good Catholic ? |
| 5 | Eventually he paused to lead her along a side-track where the hanging vines reached out to cling about them . |
| 6 | His hand beneath her elbow , Michele directed her down a short flight of steps to a central sunken garden where Neptune , brandishing a trident , guarded a splashing fountain . |
| 7 | Tony poured her out a generous measure into a half pint glass . |
| 8 | Here are , race that fucking whore and get her out the bloody way |
| 9 | And yet , self-denied , he was still dominant , rampant male , she the one reduced to mindless begging for the release she now knew could only ever be temporary because she was an addict already , enslaved by him as he fed her again the fatal taste , the bitter-sweet of his passion , and her own . |
| 10 | He kidnaps her in the hope that she will accept and return his affections and when he ties her up the sexual and emotional metaphors of the title abound . |
| 11 | ‘ Maureen told me to give her just a small dose , and I did , ’ she said . |
| 12 | I would an for two reasons I , I 'm going to give her quite a long course . |
| 13 | All in all , I would be prepared to give her quite a high mark during her time in government , which I am sure will be a source of great relief to her when she comes to sleep at night . |
| 14 | They followed her down a narrow passage and into the sunshine beyond . |
| 15 | Susan followed her down a short , dark passage and into the second sitting-room , which , ugly and over-full as it was , looked comparatively cheerful with its blazing fire . |
| 16 | Maggie now beckoned him towards her , and some what reluctantly he followed her along a short passage and into a long sun-lit kitchen , where a woman was standing at a wooden table mixing some ingredients in a bowl . |
| 17 | Up until this point we have assumed that a referential locus is quite generally available for property words , not only adjectives in fact but also adverbs : ( 8 ) Philippa comforted her lovingly the referential locus of the adverb is that of the verb ; and the referential locus of the verb in turn is the entity of the subject phrase ; that is why a sentence like : ( 9 ) the drink comforted her lovingly is unacceptable , despite the fact that lovingly can co-occur with comfort , while comfort is compatible with drink . |
| 18 | As he began to carry her away a half-formed thought , a prickle of awareness , came from her subconscious . |
| 19 | And when they asked her why the yellow ribbon , |
| 20 | Wilcox led her up a twisted and worn steel staircase to a prefabricated office perched on stilts in the middle of the building , and introduced her to the general manager , Tom Rigby , who looked her up and down once and then ignored her . |
| 21 | Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden . |
| 22 | Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation . |
| 23 | He led her along a cold flagged corridor now , where the walls gleamed faintly with phosphorescence , and where , although wall sconces flared bravely , the light was greenish and lack-lustre , so that it was rather like walking under water . |
| 24 | She had no problem in finding the turning which led her along an unadopted road for half a mile before she drove through open gates up a steeply ascending drive past lawns on several different levels until she finally reached a gravelled circle in front of Penry 's house . |
| 25 | Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall . |
| 26 | You must have touched her up the wrong way . |
| 27 | Instead , here she was , creeping around her own house like a burglar , trying to avoid a man who rubbed her up the wrong way . |
| 28 | To give Perdita a break , Luke took her away the following Saturday to see a high goal match at the famous Hurlingham Club which left her speechless with wonder , then on to Buenos Aires to an English production of The Merchant of Venice throughout most of which she slept . |
| 29 | It took her quite a long time to understand what had occurred and what she had done wrong . |
| 30 | Silas appeared to be deep in thought , while Lucy sat wrapped in a gloom which sent her down a dark tunnel to the depths of depression . |