Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | Luke had n't visited her at the flat again , nor invited her back to his house . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Come on , ’ he turned her neatly and propelled her back into the living room . |
| 9 | Gary got up , took Paula by the arm and led her over to the low sofa . |
| 10 | Fred was delighted and led her up to his bedroom where a truly magnificent blue and yellow parrot sat in a tall cage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then , as she blushed again , he slipped an arm around her waist and led her back through the garden to the party . |
| 13 | Her heart touched on the instant by her friend 's distress , she put an arm through hers and led her back to the palace . |
| 14 | Jack finally got her and led her back to the seat , where she folded her anorak carefully , eyes still glued to the screen . |
| 15 | Smiling , Nicolo put his arm around her shoulders and led her back to where they 'd left the Ferrari . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | He bowed , kissed her hand , and led her down to the courtyard where their carriage waited . |
| 18 | He took her hand and led her out of the café . |
| 19 | Her eyes were only very slightly glazed as Fernando Serra tightened his grip on her hand and led her out of the Guadalquivir suite . |
| 20 | ‘ We ca n't talk here , ’ he said , and led her out of the room and into the hall . |
| 21 | He signalled to the waiter that he had put two twenty-peseta notes on the table , and led her out into the afternoon sun . |
| 22 | Nigel rallied round and asked her out for a drink . |
| 23 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 24 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
| 25 | As she screamed , she felt arms grab hold of her and pick her up off the floor . |
| 26 | So we go up and pick her up in Kensington , bring her back , she unpacks her bag and plonks herself down , she eats everything that 's put in front of her , and second helpings , |
| 27 | ‘ You ca n't take a black child into a white home and bring her up as your own . ’ |
| 28 | Fortunately Chief Petty Officer Richard Saunders RN , my husband 's father , had taught him very early how to box the compass and he was able to bring her north of Scotland , round our north eastern seaboard and bring her in to Chatham dockyard for paying-off . |
| 29 | What an extraordinary suggestion , to put forward a girl — a charity child who was not a Sister , a novice , a postulant , nor anyone with the remotest intention of becoming a nun — and raise her up above the many Sisters in the Community who were all hoping and praying for a chance of higher education … what would they feel if a girl who had already been pampered , it seemed , by the convent in Knockglen , were put in to study , over their heads ? |
| 30 | He came through the door and he backed Cati against the rough wall of the hideout and rammed his pelvis against her stomach and pinned her down with one hand flat against her chest and with the other drew his belt through the loops of his soldier 's jacket and slashed her across the face with the buckle doubled against the leather . |