Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave a little laugh and tightened the hand he had placed on her arm — Sally-Anne had not offered to take his ; that was not a servant 's right . |
| 2 | She gazed at the new arrangement , absent-mindedly reached for the tea Julia had placed near her elbow and drank . |
| 3 | She lay relaxed and dizzy on the bed , with the lingering sense of floating on top of the depths she had plumbed in her sleep . |
| 4 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 5 | The voice which Lewis had earlier thought well under control now wavered slightly , and with her handkerchief she quickly wiped away the light film of sweat that had formed on her upper lip . |
| 6 | The brave legend she had painted on her hat-box . |
| 7 | From what I had gathered of her dinner with him in town , despite her obvious pleasure in meeting him again , she had given the poor man a straight brush-off . |
| 8 | Angrily , she dashed away the tears that had gathered in her eyes . |
| 9 | I would never again speak of sin , certainly not to Lili , for one of the messages I had gathered from her speech was that it would bore her . |
| 10 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
| 11 | She had to mourn for her friends who died in the accident . |
| 12 | A special word of thanks to Lucy Jackson , who although away had arranged for her daughter to make an enormous cake . |
| 13 | At RINGSTEAD , Northants , Lynda Wyatt had to clamber on her car roof with seven-month-old baby Luke and son David , three . |
| 14 | It felt extraordinarily like the process of detumescence she had witnessed in her husband on many an occasion . |
| 15 | By June , when the little mountain flowers covered the lush meadows with their brightness , Katherine had adjusted to her new life . |
| 16 | His spunk had spattered over her lovely face , and large globules hung from her succulent red lips . |
| 17 | Checking the magazine of the Luger she had tucked in her waistband , she threw open the door and leapt in , the gun aimed unwaveringly at Froebe . |
| 18 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 19 | Once she had stripped off her top clothes she slapped the monitor pads on and connected up the leads . |
| 20 | Rachaela had halted in her tracks . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not surprised ! ’ the other girl agreed sympathetically , having just heard from Laura the full story of her traumatic outing , which had culminated in her being arrested and ending up in the New York police station . |
| 22 | He had fantasized about her death almost as much as he had fantasized about Elinor 's . |
| 23 | He was ashamed of himself , and he leant towards her , and the scent she had dabbed at her neck in the bedroom played at his nostrils . |
| 24 | The case arose from Beltran 's claim that Aquino had hidden under her bed during a coup attempt . |
| 25 | But while one kept her talking , the other stole the five thousand pounds she had hidden in her wardrobe . |
| 26 | Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit . |
| 27 | He had explained to her mother how it was an innovation for Hoggatt 's having a clerical officer on the desk instead of a junior police officer . |
| 28 | They had heard about her erotic exploits but their jaws dropped during the dress rehearsal of one of her entrances . |
| 29 | The ballad-type songs of the day sung by such as Tony Bennett , Rosemary Clooney , Doris Day , Debbie Reynolds and Frank Sinatra , plus the great classical music she had heard from her youth , facilitated Masha Cohen 's overcoming of her personal nightmares , and had become — along with the very important Yiddish music — the natural background to Leonard 's life , too . |
| 30 | ‘ Mme Verard , ’ he wrote , ‘ for so they called her , in order to pay her that honour due to her staunchness and fidelity ( though the union had never been blessed in God 's sight ) , had heard among her people that they planned to fall upon the settlers and massacre them in their beds one moonlit night . |