Example sentences of "[verb] she to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Allen took her by the arm and led her to the nearest stone shelter . |
| 32 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
| 33 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 34 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |
| 35 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |
| 36 | Travis was by her in two strides , helping her to the nearest chair . |
| 37 | Ruth swung to see his eyes had changed to cold hostility and the set of his jaw was so damned determined it chilled her to the very marrow of her bones . |
| 38 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 39 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 40 | was delighted to tell you that we have already received our first nomination for this position in 1992. has been nominated and seconded and , as she is not a current elected member of the Executive Committee , it has been decided to invite her to the remaining Executive meetings as an observer so that she gets used to how the Society functions . |
| 41 | Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses . |
| 42 | Two half-run strides took her to the only way out : the lift . |
| 43 | The elevator took her to the top floor of the highrise that housed the health club with its big swimming-pool , Jacuzzi , sauna , Turkish bath and view of Paris . |
| 44 | He took her to the deserted camp laundry : a large hut with a great copper the size of a steam-engine , a line of deep sinks , and rows of drying lines . |
| 45 | And after another sleepless night , the green-eyed woman took her to the commanding officer . |
| 46 | Once outside he linked arms with her and took her to the little pub that the station staff used . |
| 47 | After threatening Miss Slater with a knife , he took her to the converted pub in Newark , Nottinghamshire , he used as a workshop for his tool repair business . |
| 48 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 49 | He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well . |
| 50 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 51 | Yet they may have made no effort to give her anywhere she can go to , having allocated a large bedroom to one of their small children and relegated her to the tiniest bedroom in the house , to which she can never withdraw unless she actually gets into bed . |
| 52 | He made no attempt to present her to the other man , however , apparently so deep in thought that he seemed to have forgotten her very existence . |
| 53 | Yes , he 'd bring Ma to the fête , by way of introducing her to the new life . |
| 54 | She could borrow the grey , using its strength to get her to the nearest village . |
| 55 | He had always delivered her to the same spot . |
| 56 | Indeed , his view of this independent sovereign as purely a pawn in the French political game was never more clearly seen than in 1556 , when he contemplated marrying her to the English nobleman Edward lord Courtenay , in response to the threat that Philip of Spain , then married to Mary Tudor , would give her sister Elizabeth as a bride to Ferdinand of Austria . |
| 57 | Wilcox led her up a twisted and worn steel staircase to a prefabricated office perched on stilts in the middle of the building , and introduced her to the general manager , Tom Rigby , who looked her up and down once and then ignored her . |
| 58 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 59 | I was now doubly careful not to let any more brother/sister matings take place , and when the female had attained a mighty 2.5″ I cautiously introduced her to the big male . |
| 60 | The magazine Fair Lady carries an advertisement in which a white woman addresses the reader : ‘ I discuss family planning with my domestic and take her to the nearest clinic . |