Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had picked her up of intent , had followed her into this inn for some purpose of his own . |
| 2 | The family had just picked her up from hospital in Oxford and were taking her home to Swindon . |
| 3 | He had expected her back by midnight at the latest , judging by the phone call and the length of the concert , so where had she been until two in the morning ? |
| 4 | Their ‘ great weekend ’ as he put it had come to a highly unsatisfactory end yesterday evening , when he had dropped her off at home , and after seeing her in , had ridden off with scarcely a word . |
| 5 | Her parents Stan and Doreen , who arrived in Bangkok last week , have visited her twice in prison , the embassy spokeswoman said . |
| 6 | He had seen her briefly at breakfast and she had n't seemed disturbed about anything . |
| 7 | I 'd got fed up with her everlasting sweetness and shown her up in class the day before . |
| 8 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |
| 9 | His generosity had got her out of gaol , and she had misled him about her sailing ability . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't tell you before , because I did n't want you thinking it was n't convenient to come and stay or something , darling ! ’ she 'd told her apologetically over coffee after lunch . |
| 11 | There was a wild quality in her innocence that startled him ; it was as if he had violated and deflowered her quite by mistake . |
| 12 | He had called her shortly after midnight , she already knew something of the personalities involved . |
| 13 | They had tied her up to attention , with many a sniggering jest : They had bound a musket beside her , with the parrel beneath her breast ! |
| 14 | Frustration had brought her almost to screaming-point . |
| 15 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |
| 16 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 17 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |
| 18 | In September 1985 Mrs Dorothy Croce was shot and paralysed after the police had entered her home in search of her son . |
| 19 | During the twelve years of their life together , he had tutored her carefully in monkishness . |
| 20 | Only this afternoon , one of the Maison 's new fabric suppliers had asked her out to dinner and made it perfectly plain that he found her attractive . |
| 21 | She felt as if he had led her out of darkness into light . |
| 22 | We can hint that a less honourable man could have ground her up to mincemeat . ’ |
| 23 | Because Irina did not want to travel in one of the carts , Jehan had taken her up in front of him . |
| 24 | Having taken her slowly by surprise |
| 25 | Madeleine had taken her away from school . |
| 26 | I 've taken her out to lunch . |
| 27 | He 'd taken her out to dinner that very night , and now seemed to be practically haunting the place , and obviously very much in love with her friend . |
| 28 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 29 | This visit , like the last , had taken her totally by surprise . |
| 30 | Alain has taken her back by car . |