Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could dent the self belief that was driving her on to new heights . |
| 2 | She had wanted to get back to her hotel and away from him but , first , he had insisted on driving her out into the wilderness , and now he had marooned them . |
| 3 | She was going on to recall how yesterday she had thought of Vendelin Gajdusek 's being in Prague , when in actual fact , had she known it , he had been sitting right there beside her driving her back to Mariánské Láznë , when he suddenly gave her near heart failure by challenging , out of the blue ‘ I thought you said your name was Fabia ? ’ |
| 4 | The woman told the court drove her instead to Clumber Park where he unclipped the sign on his taxi then assaulted her in the vehicle before driving her back to Worksop . |
| 5 | The woman told the court drove her instead to Clumber Park where he unclipped the sign on his taxi then assaulted her in the vehicle before driving her back to Workshop . |
| 6 | and erm she li she 's in Egham and her boyfriend came down and was driving her back to Sheffield and then driving back again here on Monday so she got a free journey home . |
| 7 | ‘ Ruggiero was driving her back from Rome late one night , and somehow the car left the road and ended up against a tree . |
| 8 | For a second his eyes met hers and then he came to her quickly , his body covering her own , pressing her down into the softness of the bed , his skin against hers an almost unbearable pleasure . |
| 9 | He would have joined Melissa on the great bed , pressing her down against the coverlet and ravishing her long white neck with passionate kisses . |
| 10 | Pamela , the maid , is constantly beating a breathless retreat up and down back stairs , or pressing her back to walls to let the gentry pass ; her ascendancy to wife is dramatized by her spacious and easy progress from room to room . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , do n't be boring , Robyn ! ’ he mumbled , and then , before she could get up , do anything , he was pushing all his weight against her , pressing her back against the bed , half lying across her , holding her wrists so that she had no way of fighting him off . |
| 12 | " No , it 's his son , " said Walter , shepherding her out into the street . |
| 13 | She was shaking again , the image of the cat 's disembowelled corpse twisting her up with revulsion . |
| 14 | And that started a landslide of children scrambling and shoving and pushing and pressing all round Miss Harker , almost knocking her over in their haste for a sweet or a pat on the head . |
| 15 | Now Henry thought about it , she seemed to enter rooms which he was in carefully , keeping her back to the wall ; if he got close to her , she nearly always moved away quickly , usually making sure their bodies did not touch . |
| 16 | Keeping her back to Edgar , she cruelly scratched my arm . |
| 17 | She was in the cafeteria a short while later , steadfastly keeping her back to the huge windows with their wonderful view of the skiers outside , when a hand descended on to her shoulder , making her start in alarm . |
| 18 | But there seemed to be no way of keeping her out of trouble ; her maid , ‘ seeing discomfort on every side ’ , first refused to obey her , and then left her . |
| 19 | So , he had been winding her up about their sharing the same bed , amusing himself at her expense ! |
| 20 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 21 | It had ended with Tony manhandling her out of the house . |
| 22 | She could n't bear this any longer , this toing and froing of his emotions , tossing her around as if she were in the eye of a tornado . |
| 23 | At this moment she felt he had had a hand in cheating her out of some of her life , and the feeling made her coldly angry . |
| 24 | A disabled rider who 's accusing a horse trader of cheating her out of twelve hundred pounds says more than a hundred and fifty people may have suffered a similar fate . |
| 25 | She could feel his light-weapon burning off her skin , charring her bones , slinging her on to some meat-heap to be reassembled from scrap . |
| 26 | She has created pop 's answer to Barbarella , dressing her up in clothes fit for a material girl . |
| 27 | Pushing her down into a chair , Travis produced her passport from his pocket . |
| 28 | He squeezed with all his strength , pushing her down onto the floor , while a raucous parody of the nocturne played fortissimo in his head . |
| 29 | Pushing her back into her chair , he gave her back her glass and it was a measure of her distress that she actually reached out and took it . |
| 30 | A whole exciting new scene was being born all about her and pushing her out of the way . |