Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 2 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
| 3 | She 'd aroused suspicion in some member of the staff and they 'd reported her to Brückner 's widow . |
| 4 | They 'd thrown her into a Jeep and driven her into the Heide , through the woods , to a large wooden building hidden in the trees . |
| 5 | When he sees her , I want him to know they 've fucked her in every hole she 's got . |
| 6 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 7 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 8 | That meant they had connected her with Puddephat 's disappearance before the discovery of the body . |
| 9 | They had followed her up the path meantime , and were coming into the room ; her uninspiring sons , Paul the lawyer , George the insurance broker , Hubert the medical student , his eyes strained with reading . |
| 10 | Such as Agnes and Flora , two " unknowns " who sent her a postcard because they had seen her on " telly " and were sorry to hear she was poorly ; eighty-year-old Phoebe who kept them awake one night when she was in a distressed state ; the flower lover who treated the ward as a potting shed taking clippings from the various plants ; the " blether " of women she was invited to join round one of the beds when she was fit enough to take a short walk . |
| 11 | They had grasped her by the wrists and feet and dragged her to the neighbouring room . |
| 12 | This was style , as they had taught her at school . |
| 13 | They had warned her at the start there would be complicated things going on , and not to try to understand them , that her job was looking after the baby . |
| 14 | They had showered her with congratulations , and had been pleased to serve her . |
| 15 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 16 | He thought she was worrying about Midge 's reaction to the news when they had telephoned her from Richie 's flat . |
| 17 | Miss Evans had become Auntie Lou and it seemed they had known her for ever . |
| 18 | She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations . |
| 19 | They were constructing a series of weirs upstream , so they had told her at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , which would eventually control this annual predator , but for this year , at least , it surged down irresistibly as ever , biting acres out of its banks as it cornered , like a ferocious animal frustrated . |
| 20 | They had told her in hospital that the glass had cut into an artery and she had needed transfusions but although she had felt far from well this morning she was certainly feeling worse now . |
| 21 | Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel . |
| 22 | They had provided her with a local map , pin-pointing the exact location of the Château La Tour Monchauzet , and explaining she should take the Villereal road out of Issigeac , but only for a short distance . |
| 23 | Then , after she had taken her tour of Nightmare City , they had brought her into the middle of town and dumped her . |
| 24 | I 've not said more than two words to her since then , but they remember her mother ( so charming , so ladylike , so rich ) because they have placed her in a box in their heads marked " suitable " . |
| 25 | They have seen her in the shadows outside the windows of country cottages , and drawn the blinds , dropped the latch . |
| 26 | They have expected her to be super-wife , good in bed , a wonderful mother , an efficient housekeeper , a co-counsellor , and an earner of income . |