Example sentences of "[prep] her to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they were on the cliff road for Repulse Bay , and the sea glittered below her to the right . |
| 2 | I retorted and pushed past her to the door . |
| 3 | As the woman 's mouth sagged open Polly walked past her to the door . |
| 4 | Talk of the Rector and his unruly family , of her wild Harry 's doings at Oxford , of the poor hunting season it had been , all flowed between her and Aunt Emily and when she rose to go , and Alexandra held out her hand in farewell , Mrs Burrows stalked past her to the door as if she had no more real existence than an armchair . |
| 5 | ‘ The Test , ’ he said , pointing past her to the silvery flash of sunlight on water beyond the village . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got to go , ’ he blurted out , skirting past her to the front door . |
| 7 | Then his expression suddenly hardened as his eyes flicked past her to the staircase at the top of which lay Silvia 's room . |
| 8 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 9 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 10 | For once he pushed the vision of her to the back of his mind , his thoughts focusing instead on the events of that night . |
| 11 | Her cousin always coaxed a lighter side of her to the surface . |
| 12 | He went ahead of her to the concert hall , bought the tickets , and stood waiting for her in the foyer . |
| 13 | Frank , going ahead of her to the boat , turns for her . |
| 14 | A waiter smoothed his blue waistcoat and padded behind her to the round table where she always sat , next to the band and the dance floor . |
| 15 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 16 | She looked from the magnificent Renaissance oil-paintings that graced the wall behind her to the perfect symmetry of the mosaic floor in the atrium . |
| 17 | I wanted to go with her to the train , but she told me to stay at home otherwise I 'd get lost on the way back . |
| 18 | She realized though , that if she did this , he would never come out with her to the Lock . |
| 19 | Ranald went up with her to the shieling , carrying a pot with charcoal burning in it . |
| 20 | After an early morning breakfast with Paula , he walked with her to the garage where the BMW was parked . |
| 21 | In 1913 , Liam Murphy did sail for New York without Nellie , promising to send for her ‘ as soon as he was settled ’ but Nessie O'Neil was n't sure and took her daughter home with her to the farm ‘ for company ’ . |
| 22 | She was delighted to see me , as it meant she would not have to go on her own , and she stood over me while , complaining bitterly , I changed into my jacket and returned with her to the revels . |
| 23 | It is the one anxiety Marje Proops will carry with her to the grave . |
| 24 | He took the two or three steps with her to the other doorway . |
| 25 | There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys . |
| 26 | ‘ Did she ever go with her to the bar ? ’ |
| 27 | Her children were both obviously too little to understand more than the tone of her voice , and as she dressed them to go out with her to the shops she was saying " and when Daddy comes home , we 'll show him , shall we ? |
| 28 | Ada Thompson who knew Herbert Varley who was married to a Jewish girl , asked Daisy , one dank and drizzling November afternoon two years ago , to come with her to the Mandelbaums ' . |
| 29 | Cynthia Merstam watched in silence as the nurse arranged the big bunch of gladioli she had brought with her to the nursing-home . |
| 30 | When they 'd covered more or less everything and it was time for her to go , Angelica walked with her to the main door . |