Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] her [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States broke the unofficial cartel with Canada and tried to shoulder her out of markets . |
| 2 | She glared at him , then scanned the road for anyone who might offer help if he turned nasty and tried to force her back inside the car , but , apart from an elderly woman walking an equally elderly terrier along the opposite pavement , the road was deserted . |
| 3 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 4 | Then there was William Henry 's wife Mary , and his niece , Mary Hannah , who unfortunately lost both parents when she was young and came to make her home with them . |
| 5 | I pulled her to the side where Otley dragged her up the bank and began to dust her down as if she were not wet but dirty . |
| 6 | But even as she protested , he gripped her upper arm and began hauling her unceremoniously from the bed . |
| 7 | Then he bent down and began to roll her up in the hearth rug . |
| 8 | She was at senior school by this time , of course , and the senior mistress sent for her , sat her down and began to question her kindly about conditions at home . |
| 9 | My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head . |
| 10 | I am reading an extraordinary book about a man who was ‘ given away ’ by his mother at 2 weeks old , and managed to find her again in his thirties . |
| 11 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 12 | Finally , he had felt sick at his behaviour and had dropped her off at her home with a feeling of relief that she was not the clinging type and perhaps he could avoid her in future . |
| 13 | In that case the defendant had made her home with a tenant of a private sector house for three years and continued to make her home with the tenant when he was granted a secure tenancy of a council house . |
| 14 | I must have been jealous of her life away from me , and wished to have her entirely to myself . |