Example sentences of "and [verb] she [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She whimpers as I twist a little harder and drag her to the cloakroom , to keep out of Merchant 's way .
2 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 .
3 Yussuf caught hold of her and propelled her towards the gate .
4 If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity .
5 I snatched up my doll , Topsey , and laid her in the cart and ran after Mum who was half way down the street before I caught her up .
6 Then Clare took her by the elbow and led her along the path which suddenly went through a gate and stopped .
7 He took her hand and led her up the steps .
8 He smiled again , fleetingly , and her pulse gave another blip as he took her arm and led her through the entrance .
9 But it took a trained observer to follow her through the quicksands of her disapprobation ; a false step on the part of one of the aunts , for instance , could have reversed her attitude , and led her into a eulogy of black , into a martyred position whence the garments of all the others were an insult to her lone and exclusive widowhood , into a position where she alone had the right to flout the weight of tradition .
10 Elisabeth put her hand under Rosa Jacobsen 's elbow and led her into the cottage .
11 He took her hand and led her into the atrium , where she turned and went into his arms .
12 I took her hand and led her into the centre of the dancers , as the light failed over Wimbledon .
13 Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal .
14 As he took his hostess 's arm and led her into the dining-room , he did not glance again at Madeleine .
15 He put his arm around her and led her into the room , and Maggie got up to go .
16 After the caretaker had unlocked the big front door and disappeared down the drive , Harry took Madeleine 's arm and led her into the drawing-room .
17 He turned now and led her towards the door , but there he stopped and in a quiet voice said , ‘ Now , do what I tell you .
18 He made no response , but just took her hand and led her towards the stable-block .
19 He looked surprised at her request for a word in private , but readily agreed and led her across the hotel reception hall , out through a door at the rear of the building and into the garden .
20 She helped the old woman up and led her across the room .
21 He gripped her wrist firmly and led her to a door .
22 He smiled at her , took her arm and led her to the window .
23 Alexander took her hand and led her to the door that led out on to the path that wound down towards the beach .
24 He took her arm and led her to the dining room , where the gleaming long rectangular table had been impeccably set for two .
25 He dumped his kitbag and led her to an armchair , but she clung to him in a state of possessive disbelief which upset Charles even more than the deep depression he 'd been suffering from when he entered the flat .
26 Rosie took Artemis by the hand and led her down the corridor to a small room right at the end .
27 The offender drove up behind the victim as she was walking in the street one evening with her daughter , aged two and a half , and attacked her with a hammer , striking her two blows on the leg and one on the knee .
28 I spoke to Princesse Mathilde and asked her about the school Violette went to in Switzerland .
29 After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby .
30 At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship .
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