Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose and helped her to her feet , steadying her as she eased her weight on to the injured ankle . |
| 2 | ‘ Stones arranged in heaps , ’ said Fenella , frowning , reining her horse in to a slow walk . |
| 3 | ‘ Stupendous — spectacular , ’ she offered distractedly , forcing her mind back to the mind-fazing wonders of the gorge running between mountains of pure marble and through thirty-eight tunnels , and even spanned at one point by a bridge of marble . |
| 4 | One of the tenants I met looks through her window on to a neat square garden . |
| 5 | Conservatives were concerned that an old lady can go and collect her pension without coming back to find her gas meter has been robbed , and that a mother can send her child round to a local shop without feat that the child will be molested . |
| 6 | Caroline hitched her bottom on to the wide windowsill , put up one leg , and leaned back against the frame . |
| 7 | She had let her guard down to an enormous extent and the idea of going back to her old life was actually frightening . |
| 8 | Defries continued to shoot , locking her beam on to the diminishing targets and sending light-fast bursts of energy into the shadowy interstices of metalwork high above . |
| 9 | Shelley shrugged , and turned her attention back to the tall figure in the centre of attention . |
| 10 | Maggie quickly brought her attention back to the cross-eyed girl and forgot all about the young man . |
| 11 | She had the audience in her palm and the quality of her character off to a fine art . |
| 12 | As he brushed past her , she dropped her head on to the cold stone of the tomb . |
| 13 | Lindsey was still breathing hard as she strode through hospital reception , with an effort managing to smile at the small group of people sitting there before going through to the consulting-room and flinging her jacket on to the nearest chair . |
| 14 | Laura fell from her chair on to the dead boy on the floor . |
| 15 | Cathy had been assigned a tutor , she used to take her daughter along to a little school ( not her previous school ) and have lessons there in the staffroom : I never liked school before but I liked this as it was only half-past nine till half-past twelve so it was n't a long day and I could take Rebecca with me . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , ‘ how — how jolly , ’ and then she put her spoon suddenly into her ice cream and the whole glistening thing slid smoothly off her plate on to the shining red table . |
| 17 | She had to run the barrage of more glances as she made her way over to the new extension , but she knew then that people looking at her was not on account of her being half an hour late , but on account of everyone , it seemed , knowing of her engagement . |
| 18 | On arriving , she worked her way round to the front window . |
| 19 | Still moving slowly , intending to make her way round to the back door , up to her room , collect her belongings , then leave the same way , she caught her breath when a stealthy hand caught hold of her arm . |
| 20 | So as we were going along she was just going into the paper shop and she was on her way up to the one o'clock bus , so I called in to see Jackie and had a coffee and then we come home . |
| 21 | If she could make her way along to the right ladder , she would be able to climb up to the painted clouds high overhead . |
| 22 | As a precaution , Alexandra took her fork round to the far side of the wain , in case her mother should be looking from a window , and plunged and twisted it in most expertly in order to bring out a huge wedge of tawny grasses , cut last summer in these very meadows . |