Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Confound you , ca n't you even face me now ? ’ he growled , and , walking up to her , he bent to seize her arms and drag her to her feet . |
| 2 | Alexandra read the paragraphs through carefully several times , then cut them out and laid them in her desk with his two letters . |
| 3 | Adam picked her up in his arms and laid her on her desk : reports slithered off it and the Cartier clock crashed to the floor . |
| 4 | I carried her in her crumpled dress up the short flight of stairs , and laid her on her bed . |
| 5 | She had rolled up her coat and laid it on her suitcase . |
| 6 | Then they brought food in and laid it inside her shelter . |
| 7 | He lifted his hand and laid it against her cheek , his fingers cool and firm against her skin . |
| 8 | Jenny put her arm protectively round Antony 's waist and led him after her father , the uniformed police still in close attendance . |
| 9 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 10 | He came to her , taking her hands and drawing her to her feet , just standing there looking down at her as she found herself quite incapable of resisting . |
| 11 | ‘ She confessed she had not meant to let me see it or sign it and said Joseph had promised to take it to America and sell it under her own name . |
| 12 | The owners refused to pay , sacked the BSU members and engaged a new crew who were members of the NSFU , whereupon the BSU declared the ship black and picketed her on her return from Loch Fyne . |
| 13 | The cry acted like cold water , flung in her face and bringing her to her senses . |
| 14 | She was struggling to get Maire 's breath back , and raise her to her feet . |
| 15 | But tonight she does n't , she soaps Xanthe , urges Miranda to rub and rinse , then helps Xanthe up and lifts her clear of the edge of the tub , on to the mat , and wraps her in a pale green towel and sits her on her lap , spreading her knees to fit her on , as Xanthe is getting big for this babying , but still enjoys it , as does Serafine . |
| 16 | She gritted her teeth and made it to her room in spite of everything . |
| 17 | One contained the proofs of an article she had written for an academic journal ; she scanned the contents of the envelope briefly and pinned it to her noticeboard to be dealt with on her return from Oxford . |
| 18 | It floods the brain of the worker ant , grabs the reins of her muscles , woos her from deeply ingrained duties and turns her against her own mother . |
| 19 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 20 | It was , of course , hilarious in itself but then I got this bit of smoked salmon ( coloured red of course ! ) and draped it across her upper lip and it looked a bit like a moustache . |
| 21 | She was always cutting pictures out of magazines and sticking them on her wall . |
| 22 | She rolled up her pyjamas and stuffed them under her pillow , before quickly pulling the bedclothes to . |
| 23 | Celia had intended to get a sandwich and eat it at her desk . |
| 24 | Within minutes Hannah was alongside the aircraft examining it closely , and touching it with her fingertips , as if to make sure it was real . |
| 25 | She paused to roll up the magazines and push them into her handbag , rummaging for her ticket . |
| 26 | Remember when she used to stand there and madden you with her politeness and that voice of hers . |
| 27 | This she did rather neatly by picking it up , tossing it in the air and catching it in her throat ; it was like a party trick . |
| 28 | Designer Tricia Guild took her ideas for inside the house and applied them to her garden . |
| 29 | She took her frilly cap out of the locker and skewered it to her hair with the pins , adjusting it until she was satisfied that it was absolutely correct . |
| 30 | ‘ So what you reckon is , she had her boyfriend in , and after he left someone climbed in the window and smothered her in her sleep ? ’ |