Example sentences of "her [noun] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 2 | She dropped her robe on to the stool near by and stepped into the water , sinking slowly down into the warmth . |
| 3 | Phyllisia too stood up to her father when he says he is going to send her and her sister back to the West Indies . |
| 4 | Virginia pushed her bike on to the grass-verge and stood under the heavy foliage of the trees for shelter . |
| 5 | Drawing a deep breath , she pushed her bike up to the gate . |
| 6 | Robyn held it out at arm 's length , glanced at it and then cursed as she saw the blood that dripped from her fingers on to the black plastic . |
| 7 | By the time she had got her cases up to the guest room , made the bed up and sorted out her food supplies it was beginning to get dark and , although she had a burning desire to go up to the studio , caution prevailed . |
| 8 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 9 | He rose and helped her to her feet , steadying her as she eased her weight on to the injured ankle . |
| 10 | As I move and start to nestle my shin against a calf whose muscles are loosened by sleep , she senses what I 'm doing , and without waking reaches up with her left hand and pulls the hair off her shoulders on to the top of her head , leaving me her bare nape to nestle in . |
| 11 | She opened her car door , and tossed her handbag on to the passenger-seat . |
| 12 | Anne came into the kitchen , dumped her handbag on to the table and gawped in astonishment . |
| 13 | Bringing her mind back to the keys she suggested having a photograph taken so that there would be a record of them if it was ever needed . |
| 14 | ‘ Stupendous — spectacular , ’ she offered distractedly , forcing her mind back to the mind-fazing wonders of the gorge running between mountains of pure marble and through thirty-eight tunnels , and even spanned at one point by a bridge of marble . |
| 15 | He 'd looked as though he was really pleased to see her , not awkward or evasive , and as he continued to watch her she hastily dragged her mind back to the matter in hand . |
| 16 | She blinked , pulling her mind back to the present . |
| 17 | Dragging her mind back to the matter in hand , and mumbling apologies , she wormed her way to the reception desk . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll have to excuse me , Doreen , I have work to do , ’ she tossed over her shoulder while dragging her mind back to the woman who wanted ferns dug up during the bush walk . |
| 19 | In a strenuous effort , she dragged her mind back to the present . |
| 20 | The water was icy cold but she washed her arms up to the oxters , and then her face and her neck down to the top of the bodice ; after which she took off the rest of her underwear and got into a calico nightdress . |
| 21 | Sally was standing on a table , with yards of black silk wound tightly round her from her neck down to the floor . |
| 22 | After another fond peep at his sleeping face , she crept out of the room , softly closed the door , and gathering up her skirt in order not to trip over the hem on the way down the stairs , swiftly retraced her steps back to the kitchen and Cissie . |
| 23 | Maura rolled her eyes up to the ceiling . |
| 24 | Taking a deep breath , and casting her eyes up to the ceiling while she slowly counted to ten , Laura decided that motherhood was a highly overrated occupation . |
| 25 | Black jeans encased his tautly muscled legs , a black sweater outlined the breadth of his shoulders and drew her eyes down to the firmly tapering waist . |
| 26 | She dropped her eyes back to the pile of letters . |
| 27 | FACTORY workers fed-up with secretary Carolyn Bullock 's dodgy parking hoisted her car on to the firm 's roof with a crane . |
| 28 | A WOMAN has sold her car back to the garage where she bought it 32 years ago — and got more than she paid . |
| 29 | The young man helped her carry her gear out to the car , stowing most of it away in the boot . |
| 30 | He lifted her threadbare ratteen skirt , feeling her legs up to the knee . |