Example sentences of "[verb] she to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Alejandro was all for putting a bullet through this she-devil 's head and dispatching her to the nearest abattoir . |
| 32 | Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ? |
| 33 | She sports a high-riding mini-skirt — which scarcely endears her to the strict Hasidic sect . |
| 34 | Two years after they had been married , Elinor had suddenly , mysteriously , developed a weakness in her legs , and Henry , who , equally mysteriously , in those days was n't trying to kill her , had hurried her to the local hospital where the doctors had diagnosed — wait for it — polyneuritis . |
| 35 | Flavia unlocked , let Andrée pass , preceded her to the top floor to light lamps . |
| 36 | With a timid child , you can take her to the mum-and-toddler group , but you ca n't make her play . |
| 37 | Walking up three steps , she was soon in the foyer of the block of apartments she 'd set out to find , and pressing the button in the lift which would take her to the top floor . |
| 38 | ‘ Why did n't anyone take her to the veterinary hospital ? |
| 39 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 40 | He seemed only mildly surprised when she asked him , in the appalling police jargon that made her cringe , to accompany her to the local police station . |
| 41 | She orders Victor to accompany her to the head teacher 's office . |
| 42 | They stepped off the kerb and Nicolo slipped his arm around Caroline 's waist as he guided her to the other side of the street . |
| 43 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 44 | Comfort piloted her to the nearest seat and hailed the waiter to order a brandy . |
| 45 | Despairing of ever finding any use for her , her parents sold her to the military , a callous practice common in the commercially minded years of the mid-twenty-fourth century . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | I wanted to drive her to the very edge of despair . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Allen took her by the arm and led her to the nearest stone shelter . |
| 50 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |
| 53 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |
| 54 | Travis was by her in two strides , helping her to the nearest chair . |
| 55 | Ruth swung to see his eyes had changed to cold hostility and the set of his jaw was so damned determined it chilled her to the very marrow of her bones . |
| 56 | He said he did everything he could to calm Farrow down , including on two occasions taking her to the exclusive Carlyle Hotel and sleeping with her after she begged him to do so . |
| 57 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 58 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 59 | was delighted to tell you that we have already received our first nomination for this position in 1992. has been nominated and seconded and , as she is not a current elected member of the Executive Committee , it has been decided to invite her to the remaining Executive meetings as an observer so that she gets used to how the Society functions . |
| 60 | The presbytery appoints the church officers of the respective parishes to make inquiry for her and to summond her to the succeeding dyets of the presbytery to be held in the isle . |