Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] her " in BNC.

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1 Well they 're not new blimming , new pict though they 've decorated have n't they , they 've done one coat now , I look like Nora Batty with wrinkles in this tights I told her to phone me from Woking station but she 's probably er
2 The love of Leonora 's life was sailing , and during the summer months she spent her Sundays on the water at the local reservoir , weeknights at the tennis club or the cinema , and in the winter she took part in as many activities as possible in the small town where she 'd lived all her life .
3 It was while she was reading one of the books they gave her — by a philosopher called Christ — the next day by the lamp-light that she suddenly realized what that gemmed necklace had said .
4 She struggled furiously , but it was little use , and at the top of the steps he set her on her feet .
5 There were no photographs around , but what a fool she was to imagine that the expression in his eyes meant more than the harsh words he dealt her .
6 She is a Christian woman and she whispers some of the words he called her .
7 When Nora 's dress fell to her knees he pulled her swiftly to him , trying to lift her off the ground .
8 Long , rambling jokes led to the inevitable punch-line and climax , which was a parody of a well-known quotation : for example " A thing of pewter is a joy forever " ; " With all her vaults I love her still " ; " The aitch of chivalry is gone " .
9 The exp , he he showed his acceptance of her by lifting his blanket and so , covering her , a blanket at his feet he covered her with and in this little song was , cover me , extend the border .
10 A row erupted and when they reached Craylands he threw her to the ground and blasted her twice with a shotgun .
11 After the passing of the Six Articles he sent her back to Germany .
12 I got her flashies I bought her a flashies .
13 So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home
14 In the first days she said her one hope was that her children , isolated though they were , could feel ‘ held ’ in the same safe way .
15 When she was thrown out of her digs he found her a room in Randolph Crescent and to get her on to her feet again paid her rent for a month .
16 Now , seeing Mary 's shapelessness goblin-like straddling her thick hips he wanted her and his child out of there , as though they were vulnerable to these most bizarre manifestations of the random and the destructive .
17 His hands caressed her back , then caressed down to her waist , and when they reached her hips he moulded her thinly clad body against him .
18 For two days he helped her and took stance at night near by , pleased to hear her breathing gradually ease and improve , and watching as she began to sleep in a less troubled way .
19 Involved in a relationship with her since his university days he missed her , and he too began to think of making the trip .
20 Bienvida had started giggling and clutching at Jasper , alternately nervous and hopeful , terrified of the corpses and ghosts he fed her , but always hungry for more .
21 ‘ After a few weeks he told her he was going home , and asked her to go with him .
22 When morning came she was too ill with the poison to move and despite her weak protests he told her he would watch over her , for no eagle should be prey to gull or crow .
23 Because in his shining colours he reflected her back in coral and violet , a shimmer of organdie , pearl and secure .
24 Because he had faith in her — she had seen it in the colours he painted her .
25 Her self-esteem is visibly low — no matter how many times we tell her you 're just not worth it .
26 Across the moors they pursued her until at last , near the North Cornish coast , they caught her and urged her to chose between them .
27 ‘ Freeze ’ is a slab of sensual lugubriousness while ‘ Things He Told Her ’ captures some of the pop spirit of old .
28 the things he tells her .
29 Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them .
30 While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way .
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