Example sentences of "[vb past] her [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the thud of a horse 's hooves , very near , almost on her , which jerked her back to reality . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A hand falling on Ace 's shoulder startled her back to reality , and she found herself facing a dripping Benny . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 10 | He asked her out to lunch because he hoped that she had missed him . |
| 11 | Four days later he asked her out to dinner , and she walked home without her feet touching the pavement . |
| 12 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
| 13 | The lifeboat was still standing by , and a large swell came around the casualty 's stern and rolled her heavily to starboard . |
| 14 | That night on the houseboat , Kattina took her straight to bed . |
| 15 | It was Robert who took her in to dinner . |
| 16 | However , once again it was he who took her in to dinner . |
| 17 | He took her in to dinner . |
| 18 | The programme was a shambles and I took her out to dinner to cheer her up . |
| 19 | Where once she had dithered over choosing a suit for a new day at school , now imminence brought her fast to action — at least in the short term . |
| 20 | It was the sound of a dull thud from the direction of the bedroom which brought her down to earth with shattering finality , icing her blood , freezing her to the spot . |
| 21 | That brought her back to life . |
| 22 | The intrusion of the world brought her back to reality with a thud . |
| 23 | James to a course book , and was nodding through the unhinged pastures of the higher criticism when Jessica brought her back to reality with the sharp bone of her eager knuckle . |
| 24 | His angry words brought her back to reality , but did nothing to take away her sense of grievance . |
| 25 | Hurrying back to the town , they applied restoratives and brought her back to consciousness . |
| 26 | ‘ My cousin is something of a wine connoisseur , Mr Tyler , ’ said Miss Amy Hall as he escorted her in to dinner . |
| 27 | He put her on to Mortgage Business , a company which offers high equity loans for the self-employed . |
| 28 | Blanche drove on and three hours later she was safe in Dornaway Castle , where she seemed so shaken that they put her straight to bed . |
| 29 | said Miss Polly put her straight to bed |
| 30 | he said Miss Polly put her straight to bed , he knocked on the door with a rat a tat tat you do it like that |