Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] her [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He could n't go on seeing her in the circumstances .
2 But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers .
3 The entry of Joanna , who came in to consult her about the drugs needed to replenish their stock , put an end to her melancholy reflections , and after they had decided Joanna said , ‘ When Ian comes round this evening I thought I 'd give him coffee or a drink in our sitting-room .
4 He bent down to kiss her on the lips , and Folly felt her head start to swim again as she reached up to place her hand behind his neck , drawing him down .
5 He came down to join her on the floor .
6 As Seb passed by he placed his hands on her shoulders and leaned over to kiss her on the cheek .
7 Janice , from her vantage point , managed to catch the eye of a boy to whom she had spoken on the boat , and terrorized , fascinated , he responded to her insinuations and oglings and came over to ask her for the pleasure of her hand .
8 When he stood up to greet her in the lobby of the hotel , her heart contracted a little with love .
9 I ended up chasing her around the house fucking photo .
10 But Michele was urging her down the steps , and the gondolier had reached up to assist her into the gently rocking craft .
11 She thought fleetingly of the weapon he might have picked up to strike her over the head as she sat at his mercy .
12 An RIB ( Rigid Inflatable Boat with a ninety-horsepower outboard engine , capable of nearly forty knots ) races out to meet her with the operations captain and a customs officer on board .
13 ‘ What I strongly suspect — ’ Roman had strolled back to join her in the cockpit , stretching long , hair-coarsened dark legs unnervingly close to her own slender golden thighs ‘ — is that Mathilde embroidered the local myths to suit herself !
14 Her outstretched hand disturbed a fragment of loose rock , sending it tumbling over the precipice ; for one hideous moment she fancied the entire ledge was on the move and about to hurl her into the chasm .
15 So Elizabeth was about to get her onto the to carry her out , she said nice and gently and picked her up and taken her outside !
16 Juliet had an awful suspicion that she was about to strike her with the plastic colander , and she stepped back .
17 The actress swivelled round to face her in the doorway .
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