Example sentences of "[v-ing] her in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) . |
| 3 | But he let her go , only cradling her in the circle of his arm . |
| 4 | While she was trying to do this , he went to the apartment and beat her , wounding her in the head for which she was treated at hospital . |
| 5 | Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand . |
| 6 | Then as she stepped towards his desk , a further protest on her lips , he put to her flatly , looking her in the eye , ‘ Are you afraid that , once the eighteen months are over , I might change my mind and refuse to release you ? |
| 7 | They bundled her into the living room punched and threatened her with a knife , before spraying her in the face with Ammonia . |
| 8 | She was more than a little astounded , however , that , as Naylor stood facing her in the hall of her home , she should suddenly feel breathless and find that she was extending that courtesy even further . |
| 9 | The preponderance of the Church was responsible for Spain 's decadence , laming her in the race of progress . |
| 10 | Then he pinned her against the wall , took up a karate stance and began punching her in the breast and armpit . |
| 11 | She remembered screaming , remembered one of the storm-troopers punching her in the face to stop her . |
| 12 | He raped the pregnant woman , whom he knew , at her Wigan home last autumn , after suddenly losing his temper and punching her in the face . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you … ? ’ she began , but she did n't want to believe what was staring her in the face . |
| 14 | Leith , with two very large problems staring her in the face — the mortgage and Naylor Massingham , despite his action yesterday still there metaphorically breathing down her neck — thought a denial preferable to dampening her mother 's present happy frame of mind . |
| 15 | To get out of the car to peer beneath its bonnet was not going to get her anywhere either , she knew in advance , because with her lack of mechanical knowledge the fault could be staring her in the face and she would never recognise it . |
| 16 | I love Philip , he 's a dear , but I 'm not having her in the house . ’ |
| 17 | Philippa felt something gripping her in the area just behind her breastbone which sent a message up to the area somewhere above her eyes which were growing tired with concentration . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps he touched it while helping her in the kitchen … putting the knives away ’ |
| 19 | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume . |
| 20 | He climbed in beside her , eagerly rubbing his hands over her body , jostling her in the back seat . |
| 21 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 22 | Alison 's taking her in the van . |
| 23 | ‘ The others hatched plans for him , like abducting Constanza and hiding her in the depth of Calabria . |
| 24 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 25 | The sheriff made an order placing her in the care of the social work department . |
| 26 | The girl , who can not be named for legal reasons , was in court to hear the judge dismiss her father 's appeal against a magistrates ' order placing her in the care of London 's Southwark Council under the 1989 Children Act . |
| 27 | ‘ As daylight , ’ she snapped , before giving a heavy sigh as she realised that , yet again , the horrid man had succeeded in putting her in the wrong . |
| 28 | Watching her in the mirror , Charlie moved into the room and half-closed the door behind him . |
| 29 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 30 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |