Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he pinned her against the wall , took up a karate stance and began punching her in the breast and armpit . |
| 2 | Releasing her shoulders , he took a firm grip on her arm and began steering her towards the steps down to the lawn . |
| 3 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 4 | But a little nagging voice at the back of her mind kept reminding her of the way he had blown up the taxi rank after Anthony died . |
| 5 | She had lost a good deal of her bloom and bounce , and looked as if the sentiments of the burial service kept stabbing her to the heart . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Indeed , his view of this independent sovereign as purely a pawn in the French political game was never more clearly seen than in 1556 , when he contemplated marrying her to the English nobleman Edward lord Courtenay , in response to the threat that Philip of Spain , then married to Mary Tudor , would give her sister Elizabeth as a bride to Ferdinand of Austria . |