Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our house is only a flat , it 's not very long , and from the time it took my sister to leave me , go to the kitchen and tell my mum and bring her back , the baby was in my arms . |
| 2 | This was absolutely vital if I was ever to ‘ fly ’ her , because it would be the lure of food on my fist that made her come back to me . |
| 3 | I remember being at my desk and telling her , ‘ Even if you do n't hear me typing it does n't mean I 'm not writing … . ’ |
| 4 | I shook my head and asked her how she was feeling . |
| 5 | ‘ It was then I told her I would divorce my wife and marry her . ’ |
| 6 | It is hard to describe the feeling I had as I persuaded her scaly old feet on to my finger and gave her a dose of my very own medicine . |
| 7 | Give your aunt my love and tell her I shall see her soon , very soon . ’ |
| 8 | I glance into my glass and hand her back the J ; her eyes close as she draws on it and I put my lips to my glass , slipping that sucked-on sliver of ice into my own mouth and rolling it around there , pretending it 's her tongue . |
| 9 | Very gently , as to a wild animal , I reached out my hand and made her turn her head . |
| 10 | Resisting the temptation to take refuge in my room , I deposited my knapsack and followed her , holding my breath , staring straight ahead . |
| 11 | As I fought for bar space to order the drinks , I looked over my shoulder and caught her making hand signals to a bunch of her friends camped on the stairs leading up to the Ladies ' toilets . |
| 12 | It was not my tambourine-playing that worried her , however . |
| 13 | I waited until a break came in the pain , and then pinned a healthy smile on my face and told her I felt perfectly well . |
| 14 | ‘ It used to get me so angry and I really wanted to protect my mother and help her , but I was only six at the time and there was nothing I could do . |
| 15 | Looked at like that , I gradually began to feel a little more able to let go of my unrealistic expectations of my mother and to love her as she is . |
| 16 | Changing his mind , and watching in the mirror , he slipped his hands underneath her jaw and pulled her gently up again . |
| 17 | She glared at her sister and kicked her under the table . |
| 18 | She squatted by her sister and cuddled her because she was small and plump and happy . |
| 19 | Carrie felt as if she were falling through space ; falling and falling with the air pressing her chest and making her gasp . |
| 20 | I was quite open to her presence and accepted her as part of the household and she charmed me very nicely — she was good at that . |
| 21 | Jake ruffled her hair and kissed her . |
| 22 | Michael picked her up in his arms and held her tightly to him , murmuring endearments into her hair and stroking her back until she was spent . |
| 23 | He wanted to put flowers in her hair and make her laugh ; but he would never be able to do that . |
| 24 | A brawl among three women , for example , resulted in one of them ‘ scoring her face with a door key ’ because the other woman ‘ tore her hair and beat her with a poker ’ . |
| 25 | He could easily forget her , although he had pulled her hair and teased her and kissed her ( had he kissed her ? ) and played Battleships with her . |
| 26 | She shuddered , half laughing , the joy reaching her heart and enveloping her in such a wave of pleasure that she felt weak-kneed . |
| 27 | Beyond this there was little of importance which she could tell and Dalgliesh had briefly heard her story and let her go . |
| 28 | Shiona watched it , reflecting that the reason for her sensitivity was that her private life was the only area of her existence that gave her absolutely no satisfaction at all . |
| 29 | In January 1977 , amid rumours of a personality clash with Crawford , Frances Cuka left the production , exercising a clause in her contract that allowed her to go after four months . |
| 30 | ( I thought this very over-optimistic on her part but let her persist in the delusion . ) |