Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least it was comforting to know that he would n't consider her compliance ‘ cheap ’ or despise her for the speed with which he had been able to seduce her . |
| 2 | She thinks it is simply awful that being successful and ( reading the ill-camouflaged sub-text ) gorgeous means that men wo n't chat her up , admire her breasts or perceive her as a sexual creature . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll go and collect her , or meet her on the way home . |
| 4 | I was thinking maybe next weekend I might or meet her for the day |
| 5 | I sometimes did little unexpected kid things out of my tenderness for her , and was always glad to be the one to take up tea for her if she was unwell , and so on , or to help her with the housework when she was servantless . |
| 6 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
| 7 | In his absence she 'd been as nervy as a wildcat , jumping a mile every time someone spoke to her or touched her on the shoulder , expecting him to turn up out of the blue as he 'd made a habit of doing . |
| 8 | It is , however , the case that the man who approaches the whore as a client , on her terms that is , is usually mocked in the fabliau : see , for example , Le Prestre et Alison , described in Chapter 1 , or La vieille Truande , " The old beggarwoman " , in which an old woman manipulates an attractive young squire into either " embracing " her or carrying her across a river — an act which in fact becomes a physical embrace — to " " la grans risee " " , " the great laughter " , of the witnesses . |
| 9 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 10 | For a time DeVore simply watched her , following her every movement with the hidden cameras , switching from screen to screen , zooming in to focus on her face or watching her from the far side of the room . |
| 11 | God had n't fully maintained His help to keep condescension from her tone or to prepare her for the answer when it came : ‘ Yes , I went to school , ma'am . |
| 12 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 13 | She whimpers as I twist a little harder and drag her to the cloakroom , to keep out of Merchant 's way . |
| 14 | She heard a muttered curse , she saw a shadow across the french window at the end of the room , she felt someone catch her round the waist and drag her to the ground . |
| 15 | He had it all worked out : the hand over her mouth , the knife under her eyes , and drag her into the dark shed . |
| 16 | Yussuf caught hold of her and propelled her towards the gate . |
| 17 | Salt shook her shoulder and when that made no difference , dragged her to her feet and propelled her to the small book-lined room known as the study . |
| 18 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 19 | I snatched up my doll , Topsey , and laid her in the cart and ran after Mum who was half way down the street before I caught her up . |
| 20 | And Glenn Close 's stubborn and pain-ridden performance as Sunny makes you sad for her and hate her at the same time . |
| 21 | Then Clare took her by the elbow and led her along the path which suddenly went through a gate and stopped . |
| 22 | He took her hand and led her up the steps . |
| 23 | I took Montaine by the hand and led her through the empty rooms … there were very many . |
| 24 | He smiled again , fleetingly , and her pulse gave another blip as he took her arm and led her through the entrance . |
| 25 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 26 | But it took a trained observer to follow her through the quicksands of her disapprobation ; a false step on the part of one of the aunts , for instance , could have reversed her attitude , and led her into a eulogy of black , into a martyred position whence the garments of all the others were an insult to her lone and exclusive widowhood , into a position where she alone had the right to flout the weight of tradition . |
| 27 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |
| 28 | He saw her state at once and without another word took her arm and led her into the little sitting room . |
| 29 | Elisabeth put her hand under Rosa Jacobsen 's elbow and led her into the cottage . |
| 30 | As he took his hostess 's arm and led her into the dining-room , he did not glance again at Madeleine . |