Example sentences of "[to-vb] her to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He refused to take her to the pub to have a drink , explaining that he did not want to hurt Jayne , who would not approve of his energy being spent on anything other than skating . |
| 32 | I had to go and collect grandma you see to take her to the station , and I did n't have an awful lot of time so I just sort of ran round and collected whatever I got . |
| 33 | A gentleman caller had arrived to take her to the ball . |
| 34 | The doctor came within the half-hour , and spent some time with Rebecca before deciding that an ambulance was needed to take her to the Marshes . |
| 35 | The war was just over , and she was climbing aboard an RAF transport to take her to the demobilisation centre . |
| 36 | And then , after I 'd gone round to Tesco 's I went to see to collect grandma to take her to the train . |
| 37 | The driver was given directions to take her to the doctor that Julius had contacted . |
| 38 | She urged on the days until the chance o f their transfer away , she wrote waspy letters to her mother three times a week , and whenever possible she badgered her Yuri to take her to the shops at Pot'ma . |
| 39 | She asked the driver to take her to the estate agent . |
| 40 | Finally it was all over and Kirsty heard the instruction being given to take her to the recovery room . |
| 41 | ‘ I had to take her to the polo . |
| 42 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 43 | They were still close enough to shore for him to return her to the police if she admitted she was not an experienced ocean sailor . |
| 44 | It is understood some of her attackers sat on her to pin her to the floor while others battered her round the head with baseball bats . |
| 45 | Their visits to the Expo became less frequent , Fernando now wishing to introduce her to the romance of Seville itself . |
| 46 | The sound of merriment emanating from the hall jangled her nerves , the sight of the courting couples pressed against the wall was enough to bring her to the edge of tears again . |
| 47 | They had lost significance for her yet still had the power to bring her to the verge of tears , reminding her of what they had once meant : of one Easter when the scent had been a gift , of autumn afternoons when she had taken her baby in a pushchair from one to another of the now disappeared junk shops , buying Victorian china , pieces of old lace and old books , looking forward to the future . |
| 48 | The moment she did so he was on her , grabbing her by the arm , so that the tray shook violently in her slippery hands , trying to drag her to the clock as he screamed , ‘ Look ! |
| 49 | Maria Edgeworth [ q.v. ] mentions , in 1802 , that Watts had sold a four-volume novel ( untraced ) to William Lane [ q.v. ] for ten guineas and that Richard Lovell Edgeworth [ q.v. ] doubted her talent too much to recommend her to the publisher Joseph Johnson [ q.v . ] ; |
| 50 | The grip on her arm did n't hurt , exactly , but it was firm enough to rivet her to the spot . |