Example sentences of "[verb] her [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’
2 Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him .
3 After a hair-raising careen out of the park , through the backstreets of Muswell Hill , Bounds Green , and on to the North Circular Road ( only in the broadest interpretation of the term could the Apostate be described as knowing how to drive ) , Rainbow persuadesd Anya to untie her hands and feet , and let her get back behind the wheel .
4 At the Queen Street entrance she caught a glimpse of a red-clad figure running as fast as her legs would carry her to keep up with the woman who was taking her away .
5 He must expect her to get up off the bed and kiss his cheek , say good-night , see you in the morning , go out quickly and close the door behind her .
6 For one moment he hesitated , provoking her to give in to the gentle malice which settled inside her .
7 He listened to it , trying to will her to the phone ; imagining her coming back to the flat after being out ; she might hear the phone from the street … now she would put the key in the lock … now running up the stairs … now dashing in , dripping , short of breath , to grab the receiver … now … now .
8 So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea .
9 I 've seen her going along to the library regularly , pretty well every night .
10 Her denials were useless because he said he had returned to Kington Square early that morning and seen her coming out of the flat arm in arm with a man .
11 I could almost see her come out of the water with her short hair glistening wet and pressed to her forehead .
12 All right , dear John did n't like her going up to the loft , especially when he was out of the house .
13 Maritza and the new Luxembourg were better for Therese than he liked , but he 'd got her pushed out of the Baron and she would really look very silly singing Arsena , which was the juvenile role even if it was fairly static — and she would be even more ridiculous playing Sonja in Der Zarewitsch .
14 The man 's story was that she had told him she did not feel at all well , and he had told her to lie down on the sofa in the living room .
15 Phil Bellto , 46 , not only reads the post to the blind former civil servant , but even takes her washing around to the launderette .
16 Before she could move or speak , the two guards who had brought her retreated back into the corridor , leaving her alone in the office .
17 They could hear her moving about in the room over their heads .
18 She pulled her loom out from the corner and put a stool in front of it .
19 Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over .
20 I needed her cheered up in the office .
21 He stood and watched her walk back to the house and then he went back to his work .
22 I watched her walk back down the steps , and the wind flipped her loose cardigan so that it became a swansdown shawl .
23 I ground my teeth as I watched her crawl back into the machinery .
24 The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things .
25 The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat .
26 After her quarter-final defeat by Jennifer Capriati I was very happy to see her get through to the final of the US Open , only to be beaten by Monica Seles , unfortunately .
27 ‘ Now , pop your trews off and give her a cuddle ; and make sure she 's out of here soon , I do n't want her mooning about in the morning . ’
28 I do n't want her to end up with the sort of empty life I 've got to look forward to .
29 He did n't want her cracking up in the middle of the Season .
30 Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch .
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