Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] her [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried cautiously to shove her over by main force , but she was too heavy . |
| 2 | So I thought I 'd better deliver her back to her husband . |
| 3 | ‘ I think , ’ the policeman was saying , ‘ I 'd better take her in for a little talk . ’ |
| 4 | We 'd better get her out of here , she 'll want one tomorrow ! |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd only met her once before that evening , but I feel we 'll be friends for life . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd probably dismissed her altogether by now as fickle , shallow and all too easily swayed by other people . |
| 7 | And he 'd looked at her as though he 'd never seen her before in his life . |
| 8 | ‘ We had better get her away from here , ’ said the Medjay healer , removing the last of the flies and quickly wrapping the corpse in a linen sheet before any more could settle . |
| 9 | He had long marked her down as a less than sociable woman who appeared to nurse some secret grievance . |
| 10 | It was seven and the night nurse had already begun her round at the other side of the house when he slipped downstairs . |
| 11 | He had already summed her up as someone who hated to admit defeat . |
| 12 | Hampstead had already brought her sharply into his mind — that had been obvious when the name had leapt into view on our arrival . |
| 13 | Mr Wolski knew already that the old eagle had been ailing for months now and that three weeks ago they had finally taken her out of her cage and into the veterinary block to see if there was anything they could do for her . |
| 14 | The family had just picked her up from hospital in Oxford and were taking her home to Swindon . |
| 15 | She had always regarded her purely as a teacher , a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again . |
| 16 | Until now he had always picked her up from the hospital . |
| 17 | She was not likely to meet any young man , she considered , but nobody had ever tutored her before on how to attract one . |
| 18 | Her mother had once told her scornfully about a crazy book produced on the contemporary new wave of evolutionary theory : a book which abandoned Darwin and returned to his predecessor , Lamark . |
| 19 | He had once summed her up to a female student , after several lagers , as ‘ no tits to speak of and even less bum ’ . |
| 20 | When Harriet had telephoned with news of the birth , Liza 's mother-in-law had quickly passed her over to her husband . |
| 21 | Her mother had picked her up bodily the night before and dragged her into her room where she had then thrown her on to her bed . |
| 22 | Possibly her father had earlier taken her up into the workings to show her where he was working ; even so it would have been an apprehensive little girl who made her way along that long tunnel . |
| 23 | She told them everything , right up to the fact that two of the notorious Felton brothers had actually brought her home to this very street , only to find there was no home to go to . |
| 24 | He lifted one arm and groped heavily to wedge her firmly against his side . |