Example sentences of "[verb] her [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you see if they want her back to testing they 've got ta pay for the resource to er for us to , to , to recruit somebody else in the meantime . |
| 2 | The woman told the court drove her instead to Clumber Park where he unclipped the sign on his taxi then assaulted her in the vehicle before driving her back to Workshop . |
| 3 | Said Miss Polly send her straight to bed |
| 4 | It was the thud of a horse 's hooves , very near , almost on her , which jerked her back to reality . |
| 5 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 6 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 7 | Eve had said not only was she going to be free for lunch , she would meet Benny off the bus and walk her up to University College . |
| 8 | Tilda 's respect for her sister , whom she had never seen before in the possession of so much money , reduced her almost to silence ; in a hoarse whisper she asked whether they were going to get the records straight away . |
| 9 | There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning , she had curlers in her hair , and my father , thinking it was for him , told her not to panic . |
| 10 | Every instinct in her told her not to care , but as she had looked at him she had been all too aware of his lean virility and of her responses to it . |
| 11 | Though he could n't see her , the darkness was a black canvas , and he painted her there to perfection , her beauty gazing down on him . |
| 12 | A hand falling on Ace 's shoulder startled her back to reality , and she found herself facing a dripping Benny . |
| 13 | Instinctively she tried to retreat , shrinking within herself , desperately seeking that distant place where she was beyond hurt , but fitzAlan spoke again , pulling her back to awareness with terrifying ease . |
| 14 | After she reaches the mountain stronghold of the guerrillas , the ‘ Old Woman with the 2 pistols ’ who leads the guerrillas , commiserates with her , but she rallies round , and makes a speech saying that her husband 's death will spur her on to fight with new vigour for the Liberation . |
| 15 | Well , Herman Schrijver says he will hire a car when the warm weather comes and drive her down to lunch with me in the Green Belt … . |
| 16 | His frankly delighted countenance spurred her on to effort : ‘ I myself , ’ she heard herself saying , ‘ am very much looking forward to going to Japan for the first time . |
| 17 | ‘ We intend to keep it in its present immaculate condition and to taxi her up to take-off speeds at regular intervals to keep the engines and flight systems in perfect working order . |
| 18 | They had tied her up to attention , with many a sniggering jest : They had bound a musket beside her , with the parrel beneath her breast ! |
| 19 | Frustration had brought her almost to screaming-point . |
| 20 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |
| 21 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 22 | She hoped very much to meet someone this morning , Dorothea perhaps , or Alida Thorne , or Mrs Bottingley , wife of the Rector , for they might invite her home to coffee and she could confide in them . |
| 23 | Was this his way of cutting her down to size ? |
| 24 | It was a pleasure having her round to tea . ’ |
| 25 | How dared he take her up to heaven and then drop her — just like that ? |
| 26 | A suggestion that he should take her out to lunch , instead , did n't , surprisingly , fall flat . |
| 27 | Occasionally he 'll take her out to lunch . |
| 28 | Molly had the same feeling of doom she remembered when her father wrote to say he 'd be coming down to see her at school and would take her out to tea , so she could meet a ‘ new friend ’ . |
| 29 | Roland half wished that she was , that a merchant banker would take her out to dinner , or a shady solicitor to the Playboy Club . |
| 30 | Three days after the accident she agreed to let Nick take her out to dinner . |