Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] she to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 2 | You 'd better invite her to lunch . ’ |
| 3 | Well , I was thinking we could perhaps take her to Blagden Hall now that 's open . |
| 4 | With that homely air of perplexed affection that had so long endeared her to Louisa 's heart , she gave voice to a remaining consideration . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No , perhaps only enough to get her to Boston and a little on top . |
| 7 | You 'll only frighten her to death . ’ |
| 8 | It will only turn her to stone , I promise you . |
| 9 | She struggled not to run screaming from the office , seeing the trip ahead , knowing what would happen , that desire , that overpowering excitement flaring up between them in a hotel bedroom somewhere on the other side of the world , dragging her deeper into a relationship that was already tearing her to pieces . |
| 10 | There was little time to reflect on the implications as Prince Charles had already asked her to Balmoral for the weekend of the Braemar Games early in September . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've already taken her to Harrods . |
| 12 | Mr Robinson said Miss Stott 's career had already taken her to exhibitions in Germany and on buying trips to Paris . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Elizabeth 's travels now took her to Corsica , and she almost hesitated to tell me that she found Calvi more beautiful than Greece . |
| 18 | Kate 's eyes burned with a fury that was fast reducing her to speechlessness . |
| 19 | Roy Strait said he heard at least two men as they administered sleeping pills to the film star — then smothered her to death . |
| 20 | But before she could continue , he was brushing past her roughtly , almost causing her to stagger and stumble back down the steps . |
| 21 | They invited her to the station , gave her a meal , arranged her flight home then drove her to Manchester Airport . |
| 22 | Daphne had indeed introduced her to Guy , only a few weeks before , when Daphne had persuaded her to make up a party to see La Boheme at Covent Garden . |
| 23 | A deliberate change of direction then took her to Granada Television in Manchester as a programme researcher . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Val had never , during their time together , proposed to Roland that they visit her mother , though Roland had twice taken her to Glasdale , where she had helped his father wash up , and had taken his mother 's jeering deflation of their way of life in her stride , telling him , ‘ Do n't worry , Mole . |
| 26 | Jacob held her hand a little lingeringly before he gravely presented her to Katherine and Leo as Dr Camille Briand . |
| 27 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But when she came to the end of them , and stood there trembling , she realised that if he remembered her he would certainly report her to Mr Carson . |