Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The body of Elizabeth Page-Alucard , 41 , was found on Saturday by her boyfriend , Peter Hook , 25 , after he had reported her missing to the police .
2 September 10th was the Saturday following Heather 's visit to Oxford and thus just when Harry would have expected her to proceed to the Skein of Geese .
3 He watched her walk away without speaking and enter the hall again ; he had expected her to come to the table to supervise Mary packing up the food .
4 Rhoda had to give up work , and no sickness benefit was available since Ken had never let her succumb to the system and pay national insurance .
5 Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside .
6 She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny .
7 Maureen had met her returning from the photographers ' room , discovered the keys and taken them .
8 An officer who worked alongside her for many years interpreted the fact that he had seen her kneeling at the mercy seat more than any other officer as a sign of her close relationship with God and the constant need for the kind of realignment which requires a certain humbling of oneself .
9 Carlie believed everyone was out to do her in , and she had disliked Mrs Mason , the foster mother , as soon as she had seen her standing in the doorway .
10 The friar was sure he had seen her lying in the graveyard amongst the tombs with Simon the tiler , and he a married man with three children .
11 The slightly fatherly attendant said he was sure she was safely asleep , as he 'd seen her returning from the washroom at the end of the car and climbing up to her bunk .
12 He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress .
13 Emily knew that her beautiful daughter had a dozen friends at school , she had seen her walking down the street when classes were over , surrounded by other girls .
14 Rose said she 'd seen her walking in the direction of the milking sheds , and with a little nod Ellie went out into the grounds .
15 Damn you , she wanted to say , suddenly hating him as she hated realising that while he had watched her reading from the Palmer & Pearson file that night — she had been oblivious that she had n't been wearing her spectacles — but not so him !
16 So , he 'd watched her go from the hotel , and then contacted Directory Enquiries from the phone-booth in the foyer .
17 I sent a junior nurse in there with them to referee , but I expect by now they 've got her pinned to the wall , ’ Kath told him .
18 It should have calmed her , gazing down at the burbling river , should have helped her to think about the problem uppermost in her mind ; but it was impossible to concentrate , knowing that he was close by .
19 These are the people who have seen her through the difficult times , who have helped her adjust to the life before her and who have kept her in touch with the real world .
20 Tammuz had told her to relax into the fire , swim with it , let go .
21 She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century .
22 The Contraalmirante had invited her to dine at the C-in-C 's residence .
23 Judges have occasionally commented on her melanomas but it has never affected her placing in the show ring .
24 She recalled with surprise the energy which had yesterday enabled her to race about the house .
25 Mr Popple had found her lying on the bathroom floor upon returning from the Lamb and Flag .
26 Ruth had heard her boasting to the Carsons .
27 She went , and Alice sat still until she had heard her go up the stairs , and the closing of her door .
28 On the day when Katherine came home to find the easel her father had given her collapsed on the floor and the careful copy she had been making of Vermeer 's ‘ Girl with a Mandolin' splattered with red paint , she made her decision .
29 ‘ They 'd shrivel up like walnuts , ’ she said to Karen , who had joined her to wash off the debris of the laughing fit .
30 No doubt he had observed her talking to the Shergolds and was itching for the chance to find out what she knew .
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