Example sentences of "[verb] her from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was fortunate , Isabel decided , that the screen shielded her from curious eyes as she changed her shift . |
| 2 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 3 | Where she got off , the buildings had been knocked down , great rattling walls of corrugated iron , striped with bills , separated her from yawning cavities . |
| 4 | The other half of the club has a stage surrounded by white plastic tables and chairs , above which a blonde girl in a white body stocking was dangling from a rope , with only a ligature around her ankle saving her from crashing head first to the floor . |
| 5 | In the days preceding laying , when the female can be fertilised , the male remains close to his partner , guarding her from other males ' attempts to mate surreptitiously . |
| 6 | He protected her like a lover , shielding her from curious eyes as they climbed the steep steps of the Rialto bridge with its shops on either side . |
| 7 | Lalu falls in love with mule skinner Jim ( a rather lacklustre Dennis Dun ) , who lopes off to raise the readies to buy her from slimy Hong King ( Michael Paul Chan ) leaving her in the care of his friend Charlie Bemis ( Chris Cooper ) , a compassionate but cowardly Yankee with a booze problem . |
| 8 | She sees no need to diet but that does n't stop her from encouraging others to get the pounds off . |
| 9 | Those fantasies that had protected her from real life , that beautiful , unpolluted world of the Lock with its seals and its childhood memories of her father and that other glossy , television world that she imagined people like Simon inhabited , had been ruined for her for ever . |
| 10 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 11 | Tragedy of twin too weak to survive alone Three-year-old girl dies after 15-hour surgery to separate her from Siamese sister |
| 12 | Each had used her ; none had discovered the essential quality that differentiated her from other lovers . |
| 13 | The arrival of Joanna , brought from hospital by Ian , distracted her from sorrowful thoughts , for which she was thankful . |
| 14 | She has endured house arrest , detentions without trial , continual harassment by the police and orders banning her from political activity , while , all the time , never shrinking from her duties of leadership in the thankless battle against apartheid . |
| 15 | Once a female is grabbed in amplexus the male is likely to have to defend her from other males , and fights lasting hours or days and involving several males have been witnessed in numerous species . |