Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] her [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 2 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 3 | She slept until Annunziata came to call her soon after five with a bowl of zabaglione , which Julia had never tasted until her illness . |
| 4 | Lilian was fast asleep again , and Ruth managed to lift her out of the pram without waking her . |
| 5 | She had been supervising classes at the Manchester school and was , in fact , the Miss Walker that Anne Liddy remembered making her up on tour . |
| 6 | Before its publication Goodwin had sent her off to the British Museum to research the old Black Dwarf . |
| 7 | Constanza tried to follow her out of the hotel — as she was very very upset , my grandmother — but Constanza was too late . |
| 8 | She missed the rest of the rehearsal because Mary Deare kept sending her out on errands . |
| 9 | He recognized her at once because Gabriel had pointed her out to him and he thought the boy must be young Hilaire . |
| 10 | In manic periods , which seemed the most common , she was grossly overactive and reckless in behaviour , rarely slept , talked incessantly , and showed typical grandiosity in her claims that Christ had singled her out for special revelations . |
| 11 | More than anything , she remembered her feeling of helplessness , the total loss of control , as Joe had dragged her along toward the station . |
| 12 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 13 | Mary had told her not to be a fool , to come to her house and get a decent night 's sleep . |
| 14 | Brian had thrown her out for what he inaccurately called adultery . |
| 15 | Thérèse had stroked her back with one hand and spoken lovingly . |
| 16 | Mrs Zamzam had left her home on the other side of those hills more than three decades earlier and she had never been back . |
| 17 | One thing , thought Sally-Anne , looking around her , after Ma Bailey had set her down in one of the few chairs the room possessed , was that no one here had ever done any summer cleaning , nor spring , autumn nor winter cleaning either . |
| 18 | Lady Thatcher had left her home in Belgravia for Brighton , where she had promised ‘ a little plain speaking ’ , a threat which had , according to Naughtie , ‘ brought a frisson of excitement to the town ’ . |
| 19 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 20 | Daphne tended to phone her just after six , which meant missing fifteen or twenty minutes of the news , but Cecilia never said anything about this because she would far rather miss the news than hurt Daphne . |
| 21 | Charles planned to marry her off to this man . |
| 22 | What she craved was the security of marriage and was only too pleased when Charles began to take her seriously during the summer of 1980 . |
| 23 | She should also be at school , and Noreen threatened to send her back to Uncle Michael who would take her to school every day , if she did n't stop going on about coming to the theatre . |
| 24 | Mary 's offer had been rejected without their thinking twice about it and she and Adam had said goodbye in a cool , offhand sort of way and Rufus had driven her off to the station in Goblander . |
| 25 | Fernando had driven her all over the island . |
| 26 | Marc had dropped her off at her flat in the early hours with little more being said between them . |
| 27 | They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her . |
| 28 | Ben had warned her not to baby the boy , especially not in front of anyone . |
| 29 | The next thing she knew , Miss Hardbroom had pulled her out of the pocket and plonked her unceremoniously into a high-sided glass jar . |
| 30 | Madeleine had taken her away from school . |