Example sentences of "had [verb] she [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had hustled her out of the kitchen into the boudoir and kissed her on the lips , slipping his arm round her waist . |
| 2 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
| 3 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 4 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 5 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 6 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 7 | The year before she had missed some exams because her mother had chucked her out of the house for coming in too late at night . |
| 8 | The preacherman had hauled her out of the Feelgood and battered her face against the road . |
| 9 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |
| 10 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |
| 11 | It was very hard indeed to believe she had walked in there with a wolf creature and that he had drawn her down onto the forest floor and made love to her … |
| 12 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 13 | Still she could hear her own cries , as she had begged to be released — but nay , he had flung her down on the stone floor and leaned over her . |
| 14 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 15 | You just said we had to leave her out of the conversation ! ’ |
| 16 | More than anything , she remembered her feeling of helplessness , the total loss of control , as Joe had dragged her along toward the station . |
| 17 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |
| 18 | The next thing she knew , Miss Hardbroom had pulled her out of the pocket and plonked her unceremoniously into a high-sided glass jar . |
| 19 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 20 | Mary 's offer had been rejected without their thinking twice about it and she and Adam had said goodbye in a cool , offhand sort of way and Rufus had driven her off to the station in Goblander . |
| 21 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 22 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 23 | And before that he had brought her back from the world , home again into the enclave of the Scarabae . |
| 24 | She heard the door close behind her , but not before the sound of laughter had followed her down towards the lift . |
| 25 | He had followed her back to the car . |
| 26 | One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs . |
| 27 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 28 | Then he had sent her off to the lingerie department with the assistant , admonishing her to choose the prettiest undergarments . |
| 29 | Before its publication Goodwin had sent her off to the British Museum to research the old Black Dwarf . |