Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] she [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her legs seemed too weak to carry her back upstairs to the sanctuary of her turret room . |
| 2 | And , at this stage , it would be quite wrong to rule her out as a suspect . |
| 3 | Luke grabbed hold of her arm and brought her up short , half dragging her through , banging the kitchen door shut behind them . |
| 4 | I 'm not afraid to call her in |
| 5 | Robert and Andrew each held a cold , wet hand of Lally 's , half lifting her off her feet between them . |
| 6 | George half carried , half dragged her back to the car . |
| 7 | You 're sure you want her , Matey ? ’ drawled Dr Neil , still sardonic , but his use of Miss Mates 's nickname was the final sign that he was prepared to take her on . |
| 8 | I suppose you 're so besotted with Dawn that you 're afraid to tell her off . ’ |
| 9 | Jennifer realised that she would have to run for her train if she was to be home in time ; Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30 . |
| 10 | Although she was trained , she was still a beginner — like me — and it was n't easy to settle her down in front of all those kids , who , naturally , were all pointing and whispering when we came into the classroom . |
| 11 | She became so tame it was impossible to release her back into the wild . |
| 12 | It was impossible to fob her off with vague statements — and perhaps unwise . |
| 13 | ‘ She is now so far up the beach and has suffered so much damage that it would be physically impossible to get her off , ’ said Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater . |
| 14 | lucky to catch her in . |
| 15 | Leonora was heartily glad to wave her off to her party . |
| 16 | While she should be applauded for tackling such diverse subject matter — sadly , there is nothing really unique to mark her out from her peers . |
| 17 | He was n't even prepared to admit to himself that he 'd had to work hard to keep her down . |
| 18 | She was supposed to phone her back Tuesday , that 's what his wife said . |
| 19 | Her owner died , and she was living rough , so when she bounced into our kitchen and made it clear that that was where she wanted to stay in it was hard to turn her out , even though Fizzy finds a young and very playful cat rather a trial . |
| 20 | I was quick to snap her up before you changed your mind she was n't right for national accounts at that time she 'd been good in the groups role |
| 21 | Polly took his laconic retort to mean that the police and Customs officers would be glad to have her off their hands . |
| 22 | Whether he was secretly glad to have her back , and perhaps even had some foolish idea that she might be back to stay , I ca n't say . |
| 23 | The answers did little to cheer her up . |
| 24 | It 's awful to let her in for all this . ’ |
| 25 | No , I only said that to shut her up . |
| 26 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 27 | I would follow her around the house , clinging on to her skirt , unwilling to let her out of my sight , and demanding to be fed with some small token such as an apple or a piece of bread . |
| 28 | He thought that if Miss McAllister was not serious that would be sure to put her off . |
| 29 | We left there , we left about half five , six in the morning did n't we and we were getting lost in and we knew it was in the village in that town but we could n't find it and we kept getting lost so we all pulled her up and he went back and he said to this man can you tell me where the |
| 30 | Mrs Rosenbloom had written that they all wanted her back but still she stayed with her mother and brother in the farmhouse above the small lake , the poor rock-strewn lower slopes of the mountain rising towards Arigna beyond . |