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 | Allen took her by the arm and led her to the nearest stone shelter . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | He threw the luggage into the boot of her hired car and helped her into the front seat . |
11 | They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time . |
12 | Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground . |
13 | Benjamin and I hid our exasperation , took our cloaks and followed her into the snow-covered grounds . |
14 | He nodded and followed her through the back door into the kitchen . |
15 | He sat back and released her from the probing examination , meeting her gaze more normally . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | He took Laura by the arm and guided her through the revolving doors . |
18 | ‘ Yes ! ’ she insisted , and to her utter alarm and astonishment he caught her arm and pulled her towards the nearby barn . |
19 | Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look . |
20 | After a period , the home evicted the woman , put her in a taxi and sent her to the local police station . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 |
23 | ’ We stopped her and took her into the back room where we found she was n't fat at all . |
24 | Once outside he linked arms with her and took her to the little pub that the station staff used . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Dr Groome had hooked Susan up to Yggdrasil and floated her in the third tank . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | I doubt he gave her a second thought , once he 'd pulled his trousers back on and ushered her into the first available taxi . |