Example sentences of "and [verb] her [prep] an " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He dumped his kitbag and led her to an armchair , but she clung to him in a state of possessive disbelief which upset Charles even more than the deep depression he 'd been suffering from when he entered the flat . |
| 2 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 3 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 4 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 5 | He stopped a pace or two away from the bed and regarded her with an unexpectedly teasing glint in his eyes . |
| 6 | It twisted and turned and bore her into an ominous and derelict suburb , stark in the orange street lights . |
| 7 | Therefore , three and a half years after the accident , Dawn accepted the amount offered , which was sufficient to pay back the £70,000 her father had spent on her treatment and a specially adapted car , and to provide her with an ongoing income to cover her living expenses . |
| 8 | The rapist approached the 17-year-old waitress in a bus station at Holmfirth , West Yorks , and subjected her to an hour-long ordeal . |
| 9 | He 'd stood up as he spoke , and came to loom disturbingly large over her before spinning one of the chairs at the table and straddling it , resting his forearms on the back and fixing her with an unfathomable gaze . |
| 10 | The Countess of Essex had employed the magician , Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , to secure the love of Robert Carr ( later Earl of Somerset , q.v. ) , the king 's favourite , and to rid her of an unwanted husband . |
| 11 | Needlework and laundrywork provided an effective class and gender strategy , designed to prepared the prostitute for her correct place in the female labour force and to re-educate her into an approved feminine role . |
| 12 | She wanted to check , but Sharpe pushed her through a gap in a straggling hedgerow and spurred her across an undulating pasture which , years before , had been under the plough and the old furrows still formed corrugations that faced Sharpe like waves of pale grass . |
| 13 | Flynn , of course , meant that the English government was uncaring and malignant — out to break Ireland and keep her as an inexhaustible well of cheap labour and a fertile nursery for the British army . |
| 14 | Sheffield Crown Court heard that the man , who ca n't be named for legal reasons , kidnapped his twenty seven year old wife and took her to an isolated spot on the moors above the city and raped and sexually assaulted her . |
| 15 | She felt the shudder within him , felt a pride and an elation that she had caused it , then could think of nothing other than the exquisite sensations shooting through her body , radiating to every part of it and suffusing her with an unstoppable arousal . |
| 16 | A SALESMAN who raped his ex-girlfriend and tortured her with an electric stun gun was behind bars last night . |
| 17 | And then , hustling her along without actually touching her , he got Lucy away from being the unwelcome centre of the foyer 's attention and ushered her into an office behind the reception desk . |
| 18 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 19 | You yourself may come and visit her for an hour once a month . |
| 20 | Arrangements would somehow have to be made , for Kathleen , unstable , light-headed and suggestible as she was , might some day take outside advice and consign her to an institution . |