Example sentences of "[verb] her down [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put her down as a poss . |
| 2 | Pushing her down into a chair , Travis produced her passport from his pocket . |
| 3 | He pushed her down beneath him finally , holding her down with a hand around her throat . |
| 4 | She rocked the baby in her arms , refusing to put her down for a minute , and she sang snatches of lullabies she remembered her mother singing so many years ago . |
| 5 | He had long marked her down as a less than sociable woman who appeared to nurse some secret grievance . |
| 6 | Jenny Weston , 34 , claimed Colin Webb made a barrage of unrelenting sexual demands and once pinned her down on a hotel bed . |
| 7 | This time he did n't throw her down with a fury but gently laid her down among the downy pillows and started to strip off his shirt . |
| 8 | She allowed Dr Neil to sit her down on a doorstep and help her to replace her shoe , and he guarded her while she tidied her hair , and pulled her torn dress together . |
| 9 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 10 | Nancy fought wildly , and Sikes had to hold her down in a chair . |
| 11 | Asa took her down to a thousand , then five hundred feet , and the Yak , hungry for the kill , stayed on his tail . |
| 12 | Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep . |
| 13 | They took her into the living room and put her down on a sofa . |
| 14 | He put her down in a chair by the windows and , his dark face abstracted , said , ‘ There 's something I need to deal with . |
| 15 | He shoved her through the door , slammed it , and forced her down towards a hole in the wall . |
| 16 | She followed him slowly up the stairs , and her heart dragged her down like a leaden weight . |
| 17 | Once Astrid had taken her shopping ( she was about four at the time ) and set her down on a stool by a counter when she tried on earrings in a round mirror on a stand ; a salesgirl with a promotional tray of perfumes approached her and Astrid turned and extended her wrist to sample it . |
| 18 | Skinner released Nina from his protection and set her down in an armchair . |
| 19 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |
| 20 | Inside her , there was a small life forming , something precious and wonderful ; but there was also a deadness in her , weighing her down like a physical burden , a burden that grew harder to bear with every passing day . |
| 21 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 22 | Dr Neil sat her down in a chair opposite to his , and drew out the permanently set-up board on which she had frequently seen him working out problems . |