Example sentences of "[vb past] she [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trainer Richard Hannon entered her yesterday for the Hambro Countrywide Fillies Stakes at Newmarket and the Daily Mail Leisure Stakes at Lingfield on Saturday . |
| 2 | Manescu grasped her firmly by the arm as he asked his question . |
| 3 | I released her hand and grasped her firmly by the buttocks , small but ripe . |
| 4 | Ruth asked as Fernando reached down and grasped her tightly round the wrist to haul her out of the swimming-pool . |
| 5 | And then Janet overtook her just before the finishing line . |
| 6 | Elvis had then travelled forwards in time , locating each potential mother of the Anti-Christ and wooed her away from the Satanic father to be . |
| 7 | He moved her firmly towards the hatchway . |
| 8 | Tutilo took Daalny suddenly between his hands , with grieving gentleness , and moved her aside from the doorway . |
| 9 | Shutting the door , he put his candle down on the nearest chair and drew her across to the glow that streamed in from the setting sun . |
| 10 | Fred breezed into the office , his lined face breaking into a disbelieving grin when he found her already behind the desk . |
| 11 | Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day . |
| 12 | " Mr Gillman 's ready for you now , " she said to the older of the women , and helped her gently into the consulting room . |
| 13 | He regarded her steadily across the table . |
| 14 | It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped . |
| 15 | He was across the room in a stride , caught her cruelly by the shoulders . |
| 16 | He caught her once on the way in . |
| 17 | She began to take a different route so that she approached her home from the other end of Magdalen Street and avoided a meeting with John . |
| 18 | Like all the maidens , in all the stories , half seduced and half petrified , she consented to Fenna 's plans and he swept her high on his great wings and bore her away over the roofs of London and higher and higher cavorting and caracolling through the star-spun night . |
| 19 | Sikes took out his gun , but realizing , even in his madness , that a shot might be heard , he beat her twice across the face with it as hard as he could . |
| 20 | Dropped her knee-deep into the Harriet Shakespeare business and asked her to think . |
| 21 | The kiss went on forever , and she offered no resistance as he swung her up into his arms and dropped her gently on the bed , coming down with her . |
| 22 | The blue eyes studied her lazily in the mirror , and she had the strangest sensation he was toying with her as a cat would a mouse before a kill . |
| 23 | Taxi driver Alan Macdonald was so enraged by Linda 's story that he drove her straight to the Daily Mirror . |
| 24 | Anger enabled her to see clearly now and drove her straight to the relevant point , eschewing futile denials . |
| 25 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 26 | He lifted her easily over the bolster . |
| 27 | In desperation he lifted her bodily off the ground so that she was helplessly pinned against his solid frame , and she discovered to her horror that hating him did n't in any way negate the way he could make her feel . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew she was on this wavelength , ’ Elinor said excitedly , ‘ I believed her right from the start . ’ |
| 29 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 30 | He welcomed her warmly to the microphone , ‘ one of the more promising younger women members ’ , and warned her of the amber and red lights . |