Example sentences of "have [verb] her on the " in BNC.
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1 | I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her . |
2 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
3 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
4 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
5 | He was longing to ask Emily more about Vic , but having put her on the spot , he felt that this was not the right moment . |
6 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
7 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
8 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
9 | She gave a little shiver as a goose ran over her grave , and stroked Cas and Poll , who had joined her on the swing-seat . |
10 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
11 | That quite compensated for the insult he had offered her on the stairs . |
12 | When Michele had settled her on the swing-seat , her legs up , her back against one padded arm , he sat down on a bench opposite and , eyes narrowed against the sun , invited , ‘ Go ahead . ’ |
13 | From out of nowhere , Ruth remembered Dick Parker : but not , this time , the pleasure of her union with him , only the pain it had brought her on the Christmas Eve following . |
14 | However , after a couple of dances had elapsed , Clara thought she spotted the civilized young man who had assisted her on the Channel crossing ; once she had spotted him she turned rigidly away , so deep was her horror of imitating Janice 's conduct , but she lost nothing by it , for within a couple of minutes he presented himself , courteously , at her elbow . |
15 | Leaving her chair , she went to the kitchen and set the kettle to boil for a warm drink , while her thoughts drifted back to what had started her on the trail of looking back . |
16 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
17 | He had kissed her on the nose , and they had strolled around their small domain , debating what else they should do to the garden . |
18 | In that minute Troy had kissed her on the lips . |
19 | Piers Morrison was a dangerous stranger , one who made no effort to treat her with respect , far less subservience , and who had kissed her on the spur of the moment , then instantly regretted it because he basically did n't like her . |
20 | She was grotesquely dressed in what I took to be nothing more than the two sheets that had covered her on the bench , clumsily knotted about her vast frame ; perhaps because of that , there was something poignant in those androgynous movements parodying grace . |
21 | She had what was termed a comfortable figure , but her face was thin , her nose sharp and her voice seemed to take its pattern from her features , just as Mick had described her on the way here ; although his Aunt Alice was sharp of nose and of tongue , she was broad in the shoulders and warm in heart , he had said . |
22 | Nor are all bruises evidence of battering : I have vivid memories of my own older daughter 's accident-proneness in her earlier years ( she is possibly the only individual in the country to have given herself two black eyes by collision with a holy-water stoup ! ) and on one or two occasions her appearance would inevitably , today , have landed her on the " At risk " register . |