Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] her [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar .
2	The blue eyes regarded her across the stretch of mahogany desk .
3	Though sometimes , the gentlemen chucked her beneath the chin absently , or gave her a sixpence , and one , even , pushed her for a whole quarter-hour on the swing .
4	A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea .
5	Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight .
6	He had been about to open the door into the kitchen , but now he turned and looked at her , and his next words cut her to the bone as they were apt to do when they spat the truth at her .
7	Elaine scrambled to recover her bikini and fell over , laughing as the relentless waves pulled her under the water , time and time again .
8	Eyes watched her from the thorn woods .
9	The words seized her by the throat .
10	Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses .
11	Of course , he did n't mean it , but just for a moment the implied tenderness in his words took her by the throat .
12	She 's off , her long legs carrying her down the lane .
13	From time to time , too , Jenna caught Alain 's dark eyes watching her through the driving mirror , and she was greatly relieved when they began to skirt Paris .
14	Although I did not care for her looks , the yacht-like appearance had great potential for undercover work and after about two months working her around the Solent and Poole area I was quite impressed .
15	Despairing of ever finding any use for her , her parents sold her to the military , a callous practice common in the commercially minded years of the mid-twenty-fourth century .
16	The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again .
17	Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road .
18	She was barely aware of the other models joining her on the platform , followed by Rainmondo himself , something he did only for very important clients .
19	Three powerful strokes brought her to the rail where she went straight into an underwater turn and headed down the pool .
20	Her obligations stared her in the face , but she did not flinch !
21	At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters .
22	This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living .
23	The driver was given directions to take her to the doctor that Julius had contacted .
24	Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One .
25	She remembered screaming , remembered one of the storm-troopers punching her in the face to stop her .
26	We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre .
27	Amyas took her by the arm and helped her to her feet .
28	Having spent years attacking her as the author of awful policies , it is not credible to claim now that her departure hardly matters .
29	Her sons kissed her on the forehead .
30	We might as well both be invisible , she told herself with irritation , conveniently forgetting Luke 's earlier attempts to draw her into the conversation .

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