Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] to her " in BNC.

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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 .
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