Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] she to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd better invite her to lunch . ’ |
| 2 | She was vaguely conscious of passing through occasional stations but she did n't wake up until a soft shaking of her shoulder gently brought her to life . |
| 3 | You 'll only frighten her to death . ’ |
| 4 | It will only turn her to stone , I promise you . |
| 5 | Well this one seems to go to bed a bit later now , so she goes longer , but she 's feeding all day today , , I 'm at every couple of hours , so with a bit of luck , I 'll finally put her to bed maybe half past nine ten o'clock , she might go through till three or four , which is n't bad . |
| 6 | Drawing the assembly to a close , the Bishop said : ‘ It is good to meet people where they are as Christ did with the woman at the well , gradually leading her to understanding . |
| 7 | Later , as the plates were welded I watched the hull take form , the bulkheads put in place and , scrambling around the apparent chaos of electrical cables and skeleton framework inside the hull , it was hard to visualise all this as our future living quarters , or that we should ever take her to sea in a fully operational capacity . |
| 8 | Just recalling the incident , the feel of those capable brown hands roughly dragging her to safety , made her stomach twist , her breasts tense with reaction . |
| 9 | Kate 's eyes burned with a fury that was fast reducing her to speechlessness . |
| 10 | Roy Strait said he heard at least two men as they administered sleeping pills to the film star — then smothered her to death . |
| 11 | But before she could continue , he was brushing past her roughtly , almost causing her to stagger and stumble back down the steps . |
| 12 | Sitting on the next barstool was an antiques dealer called James ; he discussed his feelings with Clare for the next two hours and then took her to dinner at the Ox on the Roof , where she chose the most filling dishes . |
| 13 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 14 | But what seemed to fall rather short of perfect innocence was a case of ‘ attempting to obtain money by threats of violence ’ where two youths had sent a menacing note to the old lady next door — ‘ Unless you provide £500 in old notes … you will be shot by revolver ’ — thereby reducing her to hysterics . |
| 15 | Given that he had half frightened her to death to begin with , he 'd been a gentle lover too , she recalled , a tender smile playing around her mouth . |
| 16 | bloody frighten her to death . |
| 17 | I bet you they would n't find it quite so glamorous if , instead of getting drunk and shooting her , he 'd got drunk and accidentally beaten her to death . |