Example sentences of "[verb] her [adv] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 What , Mo asked , would tempt her back to the polling booths ?
2 The teacher referred her back to the work done with connector rods and scales and then asked her what she needed to do .
3 The following week , her own doctor 's clinic referred her back to the centre because of a slight problem with her blood pressure .
4 She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding .
5 Shutting the door , he put his candle down on the nearest chair and drew her across to the glow that streamed in from the setting sun .
6 ‘ Nico , ’ she 'd sigh , as he drew her down to the sand , ‘ my Nico . ’
7 Now Henry thought about it , she seemed to enter rooms which he was in carefully , keeping her back to the wall ; if he got close to her , she nearly always moved away quickly , usually making sure their bodies did not touch .
8 She was in the cafeteria a short while later , steadfastly keeping her back to the huge windows with their wonderful view of the skiers outside , when a hand descended on to her shoulder , making her start in alarm .
9 Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl .
10 She swayed slightly and Stephen took her arm and helped her back to the coach .
11 She was shivering against him , and he helped her back to the fire and bundled her in his own bedroll ; but she kept her arms about him .
12 When the revolt collapsed and Judith was released , Charles rode out with his uncle Drogo bishop of Metz to escort her home to a ceremonial reception at Aachen in February 831 .
13 He glanced involuntarily at Jennifer Morgan who said she would make tea , which was what her mother preferred , and bore her off to the kitchen .
14 He bore her down to the carpet , his face hard against hers , one hand pulling up her skirts , and when she still struggled struck her a blow which left her half stunned on the floor , for him to do as he would with her .
15 But what he had left her was the key to untangling the harmony of dancing lights and that let her in to a place which like a child she had always stared at unknowing before .
16 Lucy was left to kick around by the unmanned Reservations desk for a couple of minutes , and then a waiter appeared to lead her over to the table .
17 Wordlessly , she allowed him to lead her on to the roadway and down the hill towards home .
18 She allowed him to lead her back to the living-room , her defences momentarily lapsed so that when he paused on the threshold to slide an arm around her waist and draw her into his embrace she was too shocked to remonstrate .
19 Jeremy 's voice summons her uncomfortably to a mesh of past and present .
20 ‘ We must carry her up to the sick-room . ’
21 If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river .
22 He tapped her on the shoulder-Excuse me — and when she turned he took her by the wrist and round the waist , holding her close , whisking her on to the floor .
23 What she did n't bargain on was you whisking her off to the country and locking all the doors .
24 Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside .
25 Taxi driver Alan Macdonald was so enraged by Linda 's story that he drove her straight to the Daily Mirror .
26 Anger enabled her to see clearly now and drove her straight to the relevant point , eschewing futile denials .
27 The strange , wild feeling that usually drove her down to the sea was beginning to thump in her bosom .
28 Later , I drove her back to the flat she shared and stood leaning against some rusted railings while she looked for her keys .
29 ‘ You could send her away to a school . ’
30 Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure .
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