Example sentences of "she [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He held her away to arm 's length , his kindly brown eyes sweeping her face as though searching for clues . |
| 4 | But he was smiling broadly as he held her away to arm 's length . |
| 5 | His abrupt departure left her close to collapse . |
| 6 | Of course that does n't mean that she does n't leave her home to work , it just means that the home is where she visualizes herself , wherever she is … |
| 7 | Mabel was too cold to move so he had to lift her out and carried her home to Mum . |
| 8 | She hoped very much to meet someone this morning , Dorothea perhaps , or Alida Thorne , or Mrs Bottingley , wife of the Rector , for they might invite her home to coffee and she could confide in them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That night on the houseboat , Kattina took her straight to bed . |
| 11 | Said Miss Polly send her straight to bed |
| 12 | said Miss Polly put her straight to bed |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | I wan na do all of them on me own so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick , said Miss Polly put her straight to bed he wrote on a paper for a pill , pill , pill |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Frustration had brought her almost to screaming-point . |
| 19 | She remained there for four years , confined to a cell that would allow her neither to sit nor lie down : it was closed by a large stone that could be moved only by Roger . |
| 20 | The lifeboat was still standing by , and a large swell came around the casualty 's stern and rolled her heavily to starboard . |