Example sentences of "and [vb past] she [prep] 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 | I took Montaine by the hand and led her through the empty rooms … there were very many . |
| 3 | He saw her state at once and without another word took her arm and led her into the little sitting room . |
| 4 | Then he took Victoria 's hand and led her towards the strange woman . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 8 | Things that filled her with joy and drew her into the everyday lives of the two people she had loved for so many lonely years . |
| 9 | He threw the luggage into the boot of her hired car and helped her into the front seat . |
| 10 | Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground . |
| 11 | Benjamin and I hid our exasperation , took our cloaks and followed her into the snow-covered grounds . |
| 12 | He nodded and followed her through the back door into the kitchen . |
| 13 | He sat back and released her from the probing examination , meeting her gaze more normally . |
| 14 | Producer Michael White saw her in Monotones at the Royal Opera House and signed her as the haunting governess in the Julian Sands-Patsy Kensit film , Turn Of The Screw . |
| 15 | He took Laura by the arm and guided her through the revolving doors . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes ! ’ she insisted , and to her utter alarm and astonishment he caught her arm and pulled her towards the nearby barn . |
| 17 | After a period , the home evicted the woman , put her in a taxi and sent her to the local police station . |
| 18 | she stuck the kid in the back of the car and put the grocery in and she picked her up and brought her into the front seat , ti , tied her in and and the the , the , the , this thing was coming about |
| 19 | ’ We stopped her and took her into the back room where we found she was n't fat at all . |
| 20 | Once outside he linked arms with her and took her to the little pub that the station staff used . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The party was over and the house was in darkness when he pulled up in the courtyard and accompanied her through the front door into the hall . |
| 24 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 25 | Seizing her wrist , he hauled her to her feet and dragged her through the small hall and into a side-room with a wide , specially designed window on the north wall . |
| 26 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 27 | Roman caught her before she could fall and carried her to the small settee . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |