Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She propelled her to a low wall and sat her down beside her suitcase . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
| 3 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 4 | She led her to the gate . |
| 5 | She led him to the bedroom , and spreadeagled him on the bed before tying his wrists to the iron headrest . |
| 6 | She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis . |
| 7 | Taking his hand , she led him to the bed and lay down . |
| 8 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 9 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |
| 10 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 11 | She made it to the staircase , and dashed at random back into the bulk of the house . |
| 12 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 13 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 14 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 15 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |
| 16 | Women make their own minds up about what they want to do , I find , so I left it ; but about a year ago she invited me to a party and indicated that whoever it had been was no longer around . |
| 17 | I payed with my Vista card and although she was a hockey player , when she invited me to the opera I igried to go . |
| 18 | I confided in a teacher and she referred me to a counsellor . |
| 19 | But when Clift confided in her about his homosexual tendencies , she referred him to a colleague whom she felt could help him infinitely more than she could . |
| 20 | She pursued him to the porter 's desk . |
| 21 | Karen could never surely tell when Jessica was teasing her , and when Jessica found a good one she played it to the hilt . |
| 22 | As Theda cleaned and swept and polished , she subjected her to a series of scoffing remarks . |
| 23 | And she directed us to an examination cubicle adjacent to the great man 's room . |
| 24 | In the dawn grey with sea mist she drove him to the airport . |
| 25 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 26 | Then she showed them to the door . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , we do open to the public now , as you know , but oh ! the bills , and the staff want paying , ’ she said as she showed us to the door . |
| 28 | She followed him to the door ; he got some tools out of the shed and squatted down to unscrew the number plates from his old Renault . |
| 29 | She followed him to the gunroom , shouting , while he picked up a tweed coat . |
| 30 | Haughtily , she followed him to the door . |