Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] her [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or drops her off at the beach house . ’ |
| 2 | Pamela , the maid , is constantly beating a breathless retreat up and down back stairs , or pressing her back to walls to let the gentry pass ; her ascendancy to wife is dramatized by her spacious and easy progress from room to room . |
| 3 | well to be quite honest I mean th that sounds like good er justification as far as I 'm concerned for moving a moving her work to somebody else or moving her on to somebody else |
| 4 | I had to say something humorous without being a smart-ass or putting her down in any way . |
| 5 | But although she moans , it was Michelle Pfeiffer 's looks that led her out of a dead-end job as a check-out girl at Vons supermarket in El Toro , California . |
| 6 | Luke had n't visited her at the flat again , nor invited her back to his house . |
| 7 | But Scotland also suffered from internal religious differences , and from the effects of the Navigation Acts after 1660 that cut her off from a good deal of overseas trade . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're a terrible man — ’ she managed to croak as he touched her in a way that transported her back at once to the heaven of the previous night . |
| 9 | But what he had left her was the key to untangling the harmony of dancing lights and that let her in to a place which like a child she had always stared at unknowing before . |
| 10 | There was something in the speed , as they rounded corners on two wheels , that shook her out of her bad mood , and when they drew up with a squeal of brakes in the narrow road just by Pepe 's Bar , she was laughing at Miguel 's uncharacteristic recklessness . |
| 11 | She and the photographer she works with are caught up in an investigation that shakes her out of her complacency — and into the shadowy world of covert operations against the dictatorship . |
| 12 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 13 | It had to be Travis , and that spurred her on to reckless speed , putting too much weight on her much tried ankle , until it could only do one thing — collapse under her . |
| 14 | She knew what that could mean , when the labourer was as young and inexperienced as he , and she looked him over again carefully for the signs of his servitude , ignoring the forbidding stare that warned her off from probing . |
| 15 | The midwife muttered her spells , and from far away Phoebe could hear voices calling her , siren voices that called her back to the pain and the reality . |
| 16 | Things that took her back to when she was young . |
| 17 | Then she was able to take the mental step that brought her out into the light again . |
| 18 | Afraid that at any moment someone would shout ‘ Grab her ! ’ and drag her off to some unspecified yet ineluctable torment , she forced herself at least to look calm while she sat at the console on the dais . |
| 19 | If Kelly could see her now she 'd throw up her hands in horror and drag her off to the nearest restaurant to order the biggest meal on the menu . |
| 20 | ‘ Come on , ’ he turned her neatly and propelled her back into the living room . |
| 21 | Gary got up , took Paula by the arm and led her over to the low sofa . |
| 22 | Fred was delighted and led her up to his bedroom where a truly magnificent blue and yellow parrot sat in a tall cage . |
| 23 | He looked momentarily surprised and then , after throwing Luke a somewhat triumphant look , he smiled and took her by the hand , and led her through into the living-room . |
| 24 | Then , as she blushed again , he slipped an arm around her waist and led her back through the garden to the party . |
| 25 | Her heart touched on the instant by her friend 's distress , she put an arm through hers and led her back to the palace . |
| 26 | Jack finally got her and led her back to the seat , where she folded her anorak carefully , eyes still glued to the screen . |
| 27 | Smiling , Nicolo put his arm around her shoulders and led her back to where they 'd left the Ferrari . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's him , then , all gone , ’ Gloria said , before a nurse came scurrying out through the doors , took her by the arm and led her back into the ward . |
| 29 | He bowed , kissed her hand , and led her down to the courtyard where their carriage waited . |
| 30 | He took her hand and led her out of the café . |