Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm come here a young girl and a baby , and helping to install her in in on one of the flats , and just sort of e th there was something erm happened to be wrong with one of the rubbish chutes at that time , and we were actually kicking our way through rubbish on the stairs , erm near the chute to get erm to come up . |
| 2 | When the 69-year-old woman tried to open the door he slipped round the front and pretended to help her before running off with her bag . |
| 3 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 4 | Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati . |
| 5 | She went to sleep , and woke to growl , ‘ Me least , ’ and he put a bath towel round her and tried to carry her into his bed-sitting room , but he was too frail to do it and she had to wake up again to walk by herself . |
| 6 | He insinuated his right hand under her arm and tried to ease her towards the Bayswater Road . |
| 7 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 8 | Earlier , it was alleged that Casabona kidnapped the 15-year-old , raped her and tried to murder her by pumping exhaust fumes into the vehicle while they were both inside . |
| 9 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 10 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 11 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 12 | She looked at her daughter 's lovely face , and tried to warn her of the dangers of love , but the girl did not listen . |
| 13 | He knew Blanche was nervous by her uncharacteristic air of distraction and tried to calm her with compliments about her appearance . |
| 14 | Fortunately they were not called upon for the supreme test , however , for Alice scooped her up from behind and tried to propel her into safer water . |
| 15 | Oh who cares , I thought , and tried to bundle her into the bag right away . |
| 16 | She leant in and stooped to take her under the arms ; like a peach tree blighted by leafcurl , Sycorax lay tinder-dry in a narrow crescent , her body hardly filling the hammock 's web . |
| 17 | In spite of our scepticism , to our relief the first boat in that area to be investigated proved to match the photograph and we slunk off into the night , doused our lights , and prepared to follow her at a safe distance . |
| 18 | In two long strides , Guy abandoned his leaning position by the fireplace and came to take her by the shoulders , shaking her roughly . |
| 19 | Ruth was still clutching it tightly in her hand as later he closed the door of his hotel suite behind them , locking out the world and turning to draw her into his arms . |
| 20 | I mean , as I said to my hubby later on , we did n't scrimp and scrape to send her to Hutchy Girls so she would grow up to give us grandweans saying merr , flerr and sterr . |
| 21 | Three masked men broke into her bungalow , and threatened to beat her with a club . |
| 22 | Mr Dennis said the man put his hand over the girl 's face and mouth and threatened to throw her in a river if she screamed . |
| 23 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 24 | Franz pulled Therese 's arm through his and began to lead her up the track towards the car park , but she stopped and looked back . |
| 25 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
| 26 | He ignored the partially melted ice , and began to shaft her with unbounded enthusiasm . |
| 27 | He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase . |
| 28 | Then she skirted the table , gripped her stepmother by the shoulders , and began to shake her as if she was no more than a rag doll . |
| 29 | You could n't just walk into it casually , as he had done , drop home from the office and decide to eradicate her on the spur of the moment . |
| 30 | When the young men came back and started to film her in the kitchen , she forgot every word she had learned . |