Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ In her mind , she 'd twisted her into the daughter she and Gaston never had . |
| 32 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 33 | Once they 'd had a conversation on two levels , from street to first-floor window ; it had been in April ; on the second occasion he 'd visited her in the afternoon , for a walk along the canal . |
| 34 | She had not merely been a housekeeper but her qualities of efficiency , cheerfulness and gastronomic expertise seemed to fit her for the task of looking after this unusual pair . |
| 35 | , so I put her out in the end it erm it was surprising everybody knew what was going to happen they knew what I was going to do right when I come back in after swi place was empty they 'd got out that door before I 'd got her out the door but erm no it 's it 's very insulting . |
| 36 | ‘ To a certain extent you 'll have free rein , ’ he 'd told her over the telephone . |
| 37 | I 'd dragged her into the storeroom and begged her to take me to London , saying my family would n't allow me to go without her . |
| 38 | He was confident he 'd brought her to the stage where he could lay her . |
| 39 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 40 | In fact , he was the man who 'd escorted her to the door to mark the end of her first visit . |
| 41 | When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again . |
| 42 | He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him . |
| 43 | who 'd left her in the lurch |
| 44 | We 'd left her in the car actually . |
| 45 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
| 46 | In two long strides , Guy abandoned his leaning position by the fireplace and came to take her by the shoulders , shaking her roughly . |
| 47 | A great wind of rage seemed to blow her along the passage , flung the door open and then dropped her , becalmed , just inside it . |
| 48 | Lying there in his bed , she was suddenly beset by wild , crazy images of lying there in his arms , and , even as she tried to block them out , her body grew warm with the memory of the moment when he 'd kissed her in the make-up room . |
| 49 | She leant in and stooped to take her under the arms ; like a peach tree blighted by leafcurl , Sycorax lay tinder-dry in a narrow crescent , her body hardly filling the hammock 's web . |
| 50 | He 'd mutilated her to the point of death but — being a Buddhist — he had n't killed her . |
| 51 | His touch seemed to burn her through the thin cotton of her white blouse . |
| 52 | Though her outstanding achievement is undoubtedly the composition of the first original poetry by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century , a volume of religious verse entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( 1611 ) , she has become notorious as a result of attempts made to identify her as the ‘ dark lady ’ of Shakespeare 's Sonnets ( 1609 ) , on the conjectural grounds of her racial colouring , musical ability , and promiscuity . |
| 53 | Arguably , Nathalie Sarraute 's career benefited enormously from Sartre 's famous preface to her first novel , Portrait d'un inconnu ( 1947 ) , which he claimed placed her in the alternative tradition of the ‘ anti-roman ’ . |
| 54 | I recall , for instance , the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor . |
| 55 | He turned to face her in the doorway . |
| 56 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
| 57 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 58 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 59 | Sheila , however , hung grimly on to it , whereupon the boy began to pull her along the path . |
| 60 | He lifted her down from the train , kissed her swiftly , then began to lead her towards the taxi rank . |