Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] her to the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | He suddenly swung her into his arms , his tortured breathing the only sound in the darkened barn , and instead of carrying her down the stairs he turned and lowered her to the soft hay that was spread thickly on the floor behind them . |
4 | After a period , the home evicted the woman , put her in a taxi and sent her to the local police station . |
5 | Once outside he linked arms with her and took her to the little pub that the station staff used . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Roman caught her before she could fall and carried her to the small settee . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | He carried her close , oblivious , it seemed , of the water that streamed from her body , and carried her to the safe , dry grass a short distance away . |
11 | 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 . |