Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her on [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 2 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 3 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 4 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 5 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 6 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 7 | She is pictured with boyfriend , operations supervisor at the computer centre , who invited to join her on the two-day trip . |
| 8 | ‘ Liz lost a winning I 'd given her on a horse . |
| 9 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Charles took to Diana that weekend and began seeing her on a regular basis when they returned to London . |
| 12 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 13 | He agreed to marry her on the understanding that he could bow out if and when something better turned up . |
| 14 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 15 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 16 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
| 17 | She gave a little shiver as a goose ran over her grave , and stroked Cas and Poll , who had joined her on the swing-seat . |
| 18 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 19 | Imogen had lived in Hampstead , and had been just such an attractive sixth-former when he had met her on a trip to the States . |
| 20 | That quite compensated for the insult he had offered her on the stairs . |
| 21 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 22 | When Michele had settled her on the swing-seat , her legs up , her back against one padded arm , he sat down on a bench opposite and , eyes narrowed against the sun , invited , ‘ Go ahead . ’ |
| 23 | From out of nowhere , Ruth remembered Dick Parker : but not , this time , the pleasure of her union with him , only the pain it had brought her on the Christmas Eve following . |
| 24 | She remembered their birthdays , sent notes of apology to their wives when they had to accompany her on an overseas tours and ensured that they were ‘ fed and watered ’ when she went out with them from Kensington Palace . |
| 25 | However , after a couple of dances had elapsed , Clara thought she spotted the civilized young man who had assisted her on the Channel crossing ; once she had spotted him she turned rigidly away , so deep was her horror of imitating Janice 's conduct , but she lost nothing by it , for within a couple of minutes he presented himself , courteously , at her elbow . |
| 26 | Leaving her chair , she went to the kitchen and set the kettle to boil for a warm drink , while her thoughts drifted back to what had started her on the trail of looking back . |
| 27 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 28 | He had kissed her on the nose , and they had strolled around their small domain , debating what else they should do to the garden . |
| 29 | In that minute Troy had kissed her on the lips . |
| 30 | Piers Morrison was a dangerous stranger , one who made no effort to treat her with respect , far less subservience , and who had kissed her on the spur of the moment , then instantly regretted it because he basically did n't like her . |