Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] she to the " in BNC.

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1 The man then grabbed her around the neck and forced her to the ground .
2 Mamma put her ample arm round Noreen 's shaking shoulders and brought her to the kitchen table and made her sit down .
3 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 .
4 He was trying to win her back from the greedy black hole — to release her from its iron grip and return her to the safety of the study .
5 She went to the Labour Bureau and the clerk there told her that she would be passed fit for clerical work and sent her to the Ministry of Defence Office .
6 He was kissing her hungrily , then he lifted her off her feet and carried her to the water 's edge , resting her on the sand so that their bodies could feel the gentle ebb and fall of the sea against them .
7 They had grasped her by the wrists and feet and dragged her to the neighbouring room .
8 Salt shook her shoulder and when that made no difference , dragged her to her feet and propelled her to the small book-lined room known as the study .
9 She heard a muttered curse , she saw a shadow across the french window at the end of the room , she felt someone catch her round the waist and drag her to the ground .
10 The minutes crawled like tired snails , but the ambulance arrived before Tom had returned from making his phone calls in the study , and with the compassionate yet businesslike speed that Belinda never ceased to admire , the paramedic ambulance officers slid Faye on to a stretcher and carried her to the waiting vehicle , where an intravenous line could be set up immediately .
11 Kate grabbed the shoulder of her daughter 's tee-shirt and dragged her to the cell door .
12 Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away .
13 Alejandro was all for putting a bullet through this she-devil 's head and dispatching her to the nearest abattoir .
14 Ross had taken her home , gently helping her out of the taxi and escorting her to the front door .
15 After a period , the home evicted the woman , put her in a taxi and sent her to the local police station .
16 Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar .
17 I suspected that the lesion might by pyogenic granuloma and referred her to the dermatology outpatient clinic .
18 David had n't been on duty at the factory that afternoon and Rachel had wondered if he would suggest picking her up from her flat and taking her to the hospital , but he had n't , and his failure to do so only emphasised the coolness that was rapidly growing between them .
19 On the morning of 9 November , Sydney sighted Emden and pinned her to the shore of Keeling Island , one of the Cocos group , on which a German party had been landed to destroy essential cable and wireless installations connecting Australian , African and Indian telegraph systems .
20 He made a wry grimace and turned her to the house .
21 And then later on the script she ha to say he had to say to her well , call her , you leave her and if she does n't come to you that 's not your dog and take her to the pound and have her put down .
22 She arched against him , unable to control the flames of desire leaping within her , then a gasp escaped her as he swept her into his arms and carried her to the double bed in her aunt 's room .
23 They said no word to the landlord , they drank his ale instead ; But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed .
24 They said no word to the landlord , they drank his ale instead , but they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of a narrow bed .
25 part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room .
26 He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all .
27 The 13-year-old pupil at Alsop High School then grabbed hold of Jade and pulled her to the side of the boat even though he is not a strong swimmer himself .
28 Her happiness because of this scene was so strong she closed her eyes so that it would not beam out in great mellow streams and betray her to the sternness of the others .
29 So the wise woman , taking a whip in her hand , seated herself on a small carpet and lashed it with the whip until it rose in the air and carried her to the forest .
30 The night Ellie first wore the gown to the opera , her three eldest brothers all wolf-whistled her to the door and Patsy , his eyes like saucers , gave her a corsage of orchids and escorted her to the limousine which had come to collect her .
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