Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] to her " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | She turned from them on to her side . |
2 | She rolled them on to her forearms . |
3 | She eased them on to her body , cutting out a part of the cold . |
4 | Mrs Scamp levered them on to her face and I handed her the Access card . |
5 | He saw Rosie stretch up , catch the damp pants between her teeth and slowly draw them down to her grimy sacking , intent on ripping them to shreds . |
6 | She made herself a sandwich and a cup of tea and carried them along to her workroom . |
7 | She hauled me down to her lair to find out . |
8 | She handed them over to her husband and was terrified by his reaction . |
9 | ‘ I had better take you in to her ladyship , Mr Beckenham . ’ |
10 | takes you up to her flat on the eighth floor . |
11 | ‘ He could have followed you back to her house , could n't he ? ’ |
12 | Finishing her coffee , she collected some leaflets from the hall table , and , with the intention of taking them up to her room to read , returned to the lounge to say goodnight — a plan instantly foiled by Feargal 's mother , who seemed to have shed her vagueness , along with her daughter , who had disappeared , and patted the seat beside her in silent invitation . |
13 | ‘ Miss Watson called me up to her window , miss , and says you 're to go over there . ’ |
14 | A MOTHER fighting for custody of her two young sons has been ordered to hand them back to her estranged American husband from whom she fled a month ago . |
15 | Yvonne spirited me back to her office and we held a quick post-mortem , agreeing the evening had been a roaring success and discussing ways to improve our performance . |
16 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
17 | She expounded the Scriptures to her nuns , she will expound them now to her disciples . |
18 | Louisa stepped on to the ice , crossed her hands and held them out to her escorts . |
19 | About three weeks after I moved in , she invited me around to her flat for supper one evening . |
20 | It had been the faintest of sounds , but it was enough to bring her slowly to her feet , alert and expectant . |
21 | What she saw brought her slowly to her feet . |
22 | Then he smiled into her eyes and lowered her slowly to her feet . |
23 | She gave him no more than a perfunctory ‘ So glad you could come , ’ before passing him on to her husband . |
24 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |
25 | Amy never smacked him but would jerk him on to her hip and dump him on her bed saying : ‘ Bloody awful noise . ’ |
26 | I turned round and watched her hoist him on to her hip and harangue with her fist in the air , until the sight of her was dissolved by the dust thrown up behind the car . |
27 | The little boy , sensing that his mother was upset , had come to stand by her and she lifted him on to her lap . |
28 | Alexandra now lifted him on to her lap , where he immediately settled , plugged his thumb into his mouth and gazed pityingly down at his brothers and sister . |
29 | Then , as faint with pain and fear , she had whimpered , begging him to release her , he had turned her on to her back again and leapt on top of her … |
30 | Dexterously , Joe turned her on to her stomach , then slapped her bottom . |