Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blast had picked her up and dropped her a couple of metres along the ridge . |
| 2 | Things happened as they must have happened , only in fact it was Rufus who had picked her up and brought her back to Wyvis Hall . |
| 3 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 4 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 5 | He had picked her up and carried her from the flames . |
| 6 | But then she 'd practically loaded the gun that had shot her down and handed it to him . |
| 7 | I thought all your neighbours would have phoned her up and told her . |
| 8 | and , he 'd got her up and got her ready and sent her out and said he would n't come . |
| 9 | The foreman called her in and told her . |
| 10 | Somewhere there was a photograph of her as a small child standing outside the cathedral with the aunt who had brought her up and taken her one day to visit it . |
| 11 | They had to be good — not just good but sensational — or she would let everyone down , all those who believed in her — her small workforce of pattern cutters and outworkers , the friends from art school who dropped in to lend their help and support , and most of all her mother , who had put her house up as collateral for the bank loan that had set her up and enabled her to get started . |
| 12 | Her one sin , since repented — again and again repented , in her prayers to Mary Magdalen — with a black-eyed tinker lad , who , afterwards , a swifter punishment , had beat her up and robbed her . |
| 13 | Had he singled her out or had she simply been the unfortunate rider nearest to him ? |