Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather throw her off the Empire State Building ! |
| 2 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 3 | Turning to Omi , skilfully bringing her into the conversation , and complimenting her on the way the venison had been cooked . |
| 4 | I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone . |
| 5 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 6 | Merely to connect her with the Battle of Trafalgar liquefied him a little further because it moved him . |
| 7 | ‘ Just cruising down the street , see one you fancy and literally pick her off the sidewalk — wallop , in the back of the truck . ’ |
| 8 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 9 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 10 | To her astonishment , he suddenly prodded her in the ribs . |
| 11 | She liked Robert Urquhart and was attracted to him , even trusted him , unlike Spittals who was no doubt gleefully stabbing her in the back at that moment . |
| 12 | But he let her go , only cradling her in the circle of his arm . |
| 13 | ‘ I have only seen her at the funeral . |
| 14 | Yet I can only picture her in the posture of Candice Riberon in Le Métro lying on her back , her face caught in an agony of uncertain provenance . |
| 15 | He had released her from his embrace , his hands merely holding her by the upper arms , and she sagged against him , trembling too violently to stand unaided , her knees buckling . |
| 16 | An hour or so was spent drafting a new outline for this second approach on the mysteries of the Coniunctio and , when she was satisfied that its thread was strong enough to guide her through the maze , she took up again the pursuit of Mercurius through the bridal-chambers of the mind . |
| 17 | She 'd imagined herself deeply in love with a man who 'd spun her impossible yarns of riches and position , only to abandon her in the end to shame and ridicule . |
| 18 | The merchant 's wife was about to rise but Cranston gently touched her on the shoulder . |
| 19 | Gilly could feel Miss Ellis 's fingers on her backbone gently prodding her through the doorway and into the house . |
| 20 | It was as if a light blow , say on her cheek , had suddenly distracted her from the braced confidence of her early mood to an unwelcome uncertainty . |
| 21 | When she opened the boot of her car to dump her shopping inside , one of the thieves suddenly grabbed her round the neck from behind . |
| 22 | We had better take her to the mortuary , before the daily hordes come pouring in . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |
| 24 | I suddenly saw her as the shuttlecock in the game her husband is playing with his inamorata . |
| 25 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 26 | Locked in a marriage with a wife who showed increasing signs of mental instability and whose health constantly brought her to the point of death , exhausted in his work and fearing for his own life and sanity , Eliot 's view of relations between the sexes is at its bleakest , as is shown not least in the epigraphs , which were originally further universalized by including ( in the draft synopsis ) , |
| 27 | He suddenly seized her under the armpits and swung her round and round , until she was breathless . |
| 28 | An influence strong enough to rob her of the natural exuberant self-confidence that had always been a central , unthinking part of her personality . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'd better get her to the hospital , ’ said Comfort . |
| 30 | The Hispaniola was moving by herself now , the sea high enough to take her off the beach . |