Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] her [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 2 | No one to stop them keeping her here for as long as they wanted . |
| 3 | IF Baroness Thatcher is feeling just a teensy weensy bit smug at the news that the Tories are in such a mess that a high proportion of them want her back as leader , well who can blame her ? |
| 4 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 5 | I asked her once about the packet . |
| 6 | Becky did not flinch from the cold water but took a deep breath as I lowered her down beneath Our Lady 's statue . |
| 7 | Then , slowly , she fell forward and I laid her gently on the ground . |
| 8 | Some years later , Hellen and I met her again in Hong Kong , where the impresario , Harry Odell , had brought her for a concert . |
| 9 | I met her once on one of my off-duty bookshop prowls , took pity on her and gave her lunch . |
| 10 | ‘ But when I pick her up from school I 'm not allowed to look around the other girls because I know her headmistress disapproves … ’ |
| 11 | I checked her out with the FBI and she raised funds for the IRA in the United States — not illegal at that time — and carried the money across to her IRA contacts every month . |
| 12 | I trust her totally in her art , ’ Koons says . |
| 13 | I got her up to seventy-five , too . |
| 14 | I found her just in time . |
| 15 | But long before her death my grandmother was a ghost to me , as if she was never really there , even though I visited her regularly as a child . |
| 16 | This bizarre characteristic did not disappear with the end of the war , for when I visited her home during a sugar shortage in the 1970s , I saw the dining-room mantelpiece piled high with two-pound bags — enough , surely , to satisfy the most desperate sweet-tooth for months , or even years , to come . |
| 17 | I invited her here on business . |
| 18 | I steer her back towards the motel building , frog-marching her into Room 206 . |
| 19 | Herta kept her head down as I helped her off with her coat . |
| 20 | Now I send her back to Asyut . |
| 21 | I want her back at Mass next Sunday , and if you ca n't persuade her , then this belt of mine 'll have to do the talking ! ’ |
| 22 | I mentioned her once in an interview and Perry began to cry . |
| 23 | With usual confidence , I told her not to be ridiculous , the possibility was infinitesimal — and not very big either ! ) |
| 24 | No she 's quite , well I told her not to . |
| 25 | I told her off for not le not telling me she was ill . |
| 26 | I told her off for not let not telling us she was ill and she said no , no I 'm fine . |
| 27 | ‘ That person is here again , Miss Grenfell , she says she has slippers for you , shall I show her in for the fitting ? ’ |
| 28 | Sally wanted to know how I became a caddie and I filled her in on my doings since we left university . |
| 29 | My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew she was on this wavelength , ’ Elinor said excitedly , ‘ I believed her right from the start . ’ |