Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] her " in BNC.
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1 | He risked a soaking of foam as he darted out to cut his mooring lines , then twisted Dream Baby 's wheel and thrust her throttles forward . |
2 | According to a report by the Automobile Association — Women and Cars — the typical British woman motorist enjoys driving , is confident behind the wheel and sees her car as a necessary tool for work and a social life . |
3 | As sanity returned , she gave a little jerk and wrenched her mouth free . |
4 | She dropped her passenger in the centre of Anduze and made her way back to Roziac . |
5 | But they were very friendly , and sang songs and told her many stories about their lives . |
6 | Yet she was itching to move to the metropolis and bombarded her parents with subtle and not so subtle requests . |
7 | She pulled off the scarf that she had been wearing round her head to protect her ears and prevent her hair getting into her eyes and mouth . |
8 | The explosion hurt her ears and flooded her closed eyes with red light . |
9 | He then staggered uphill to a courting couple and pleaded : ‘ Help me , I think they have murdered my girlfriend and burned her alive . ’ |
10 | HE massaged her legs and kissed her foot . |
11 | Swings her legs and points her feet |
12 | She stopped swinging her legs and bit her nails instead . |
13 | Wilkie 's girl , as Frederica always thought of her — had he not said , in Scarborough , " I 've got a girl , you know … " — smoothed blown skirts over thin brown legs and tossed her urchin head free of its case . |
14 | Vi stretched her cold legs and rotated her ankles . |
15 | Now that she was wearing skirts above the knees , as fashion demanded , he 'd noticed her long , slender legs and admired her ankles . |
16 | He spoke without looking at her , in case his gaze rested on her bare legs and gave her ideas . |
17 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
18 | Iris sat up again , crossed her legs and put her chin in her hands . |
19 | Katherine threw back the covers and swung her legs out of bed . |
20 | Without thought , Theda threw off the covers and swung her feet to the floor . |
21 | Muttering under her breath , she flung back the covers and swung her long legs out of bed , the flimsy material of her nightdress caressing her thighs as she padded barefoot to the kitchen to fetch a couple of aspirin . |
22 | Her body spun in the opposite direction to her gun as she fired , conserving angular momentum and throwing her aim completely off . |
23 | Shiona struggled to consciousness and rubbed her eyes . |
24 | With a last dissatisfied glance in the mirror , she left the bedroom and made her way downstairs , vaguely wondering why she did n't feel light of heart . |
25 | He showed her into the bedroom and put her weekend bag on the bed , and then went to get her some towels from the linen cupboard in the hall . |
26 | Casabona , 20 , of no fixed address , forced the woman to go to a bedroom and tied her ankles and arms before gagging her mouth with adhesive tape . |
27 | After being given clearance to land , Miranda , following her instructor 's directions , started her approach ; she throttled back to reduce speed and control her descent as she flew towards the threshold — the point just before she intended to touch down . |
28 | The boy threw out his arm at astounding speed and touched her face . |
29 | Back the maid went , only to reappear shaking her head sorrowfully and saying this headache was so very bad as to quite incapacitate the invalid and render her unfit even for Wilson . |
30 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |