Example sentences of "[verb] her back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , Mo asked , would tempt her back to the polling booths ? |
| 2 | The teacher referred her back to the work done with connector rods and scales and then asked her what she needed to do . |
| 3 | The following week , her own doctor 's clinic referred her back to the centre because of a slight problem with her blood pressure . |
| 4 | She 's tried to tempt her back into the woods , but with little success . |
| 5 | Edward moved forward , moved her back towards the bed , but Hannele sidestepped , turning him around instead . |
| 6 | He caught her arm and drew her back under the cypresses . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , do n't be boring , Robyn ! ’ he mumbled , and then , before she could get up , do anything , he was pushing all his weight against her , pressing her back against the bed , half lying across her , holding her wrists so that she had no way of fighting him off . |
| 8 | I steer her back towards the motel building , frog-marching her into Room 206 . |
| 9 | Now Henry thought about it , she seemed to enter rooms which he was in carefully , keeping her back to the wall ; if he got close to her , she nearly always moved away quickly , usually making sure their bodies did not touch . |
| 10 | She was in the cafeteria a short while later , steadfastly keeping her back to the huge windows with their wonderful view of the skiers outside , when a hand descended on to her shoulder , making her start in alarm . |
| 11 | She swayed slightly and Stephen took her arm and helped her back to the coach . |
| 12 | She was shivering against him , and he helped her back to the fire and bundled her in his own bedroll ; but she kept her arms about him . |
| 13 | With one firm hand on her arm he solicitously helped her back into the chair . |
| 14 | The one that she had at the pool she threw on the swimming pool floor in disgust cos I put her back in the carrycot thing Yeah Ev Evelyn was saying oh will I , she said will you see me back er she said will I see you back in in the twos group ? |
| 15 | She tried to push past him , to get to the door , but he caught hold of her arm , spun her round and bundled her back into the lounge . |
| 16 | When it dropped her back inside the moment , the external realities of Kärtnerstrasse seemed a pastiche of the Middle Ages . |
| 17 | She allowed him to lead her back to the living-room , her defences momentarily lapsed so that when he paused on the threshold to slide an arm around her waist and draw her into his embrace she was too shocked to remonstrate . |
| 18 | Holding her notes like a fan , she walked slowly out into the open , but the heavy heat from the leaden sky soon drove her back into the shade . |
| 19 | Later , I drove her back to the flat she shared and stood leaning against some rusted railings while she looked for her keys . |
| 20 | He drove her back in a battered silver sports car . |
| 21 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 22 | But the bottle helped then , helped dull the pain , helped quell the shivering , helped ease her back into a dreamless sleep . |
| 23 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 24 | Like a game-cock in arrogance , he lifted her back across the dividing space and pulling away the collar of her , inevitably musquash , fur coat , he dropped his mouth low on the back of her neck , drawing kisses to and fro and nibbling gently across it . |
| 25 | Total panic clenching her insides , her mind squirrelling uselessly , she allowed Leo to urge her back towards the shop . |
| 26 | ‘ The shops here are very good , but Dana is inclined to turn her nose up at anything outside London or Paris , so I imagine an hour could see her back at the flat . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We 'd better go and see the doctor , ’ he said heavily , taking her hand and leading her back down the corridor . |
| 28 | ‘ Come along , Emily , dear , ’ Aunt Sophie was at her side , catching her arm , leading her back into the centre of the room where the vicar stood over the coffin , ready to pay his last respects to Thomas Grenfell . |
| 29 | She felt the fence give a little and then it literally threw her back into the arms of the man with the mask . |
| 30 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |