Example sentences of "she [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His instinct was to lift her up and carry her down the hillside to the village . |
| 2 | She 'd pretend he was the servant , obediently paddling her down the Nile . |
| 3 | Instead , he half lifted her down the rest of the stairs meaning to frogmarch her towards the door that led to the yard . |
| 4 | Groom ( if much more than ten years older than bride ) can look a bit of a Lothario as he escorts her down the aisle . |
| 5 | He followed her down the hall to the kitchen at the back of the house . |
| 6 | When he returned with her case , she was ready and he led her down the hall , through the emergency exit , past the sleeping night porter in his little room and into the car-park . |
| 7 | The sound of her mother singing followed her down the hall : |
| 8 | He grabbed her arm , hustling her down the gallery as he spoke . |
| 9 | Your mom 's gone and thrown her down the incinerator . |
| 10 | He tried to prolong the date , leading her down the streets of the old part of town and then uphill to the courtyard of an old cloister , teeming with tourists . |
| 11 | To push her down the cliff ? |
| 12 | ‘ If you want my advice , lovie , you 'll pop her down the Town Hall and find her a decent coat to wear . |
| 13 | Take her down the town . |
| 14 | One of them stepped forward , bouncing frantically to the music , and the others followed her down the catwalk . |
| 15 | James Spencer QC , prosecuting , alleged Mr Nichol approached Mrs Chandler in a field but when she ignored him he pulled her down the bank , sexually assaulted her and hit her on the head with a rock or rocks . |
| 16 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 17 | Momentum carried her down the hull into the deadspace between the executive transporter and the bay wall . |
| 18 | He read her mind and drew the woman away , leading her down the room to a comfortable chair . |
| 19 | They took her down the hospital . |
| 20 | To put her off the scent and give her something else to think about , Rory had put Candy in charge of organising the children 's party . |
| 21 | There were cries of shock and protest at Carmella 's outburst but Sean grabbed his young sister 's arm and , roughly pushing people aside , he dragged her up the centre aisle . |
| 22 | Yeah , she 's meeting her up the Tavern . |
| 23 | And her uncle with me beside you and whole wedding and the minister was saying , sit down and do n't he he brought her up the aisle , I do n't know whether her father 's coming back or something , and he says no I 'm not sitting like , he says no I 'm not moving back and he stood there for the whole wedding like , back . |
| 24 | Ari had no positive idea which rooms Tammuz and Zambia occupied and was babbling nonsense to this effect as Lennon hauled her up the metal stairway to the gallery . |
| 25 | She knew she was clutching at straws but nothing would get her up the West End . |
| 26 | He helped her up the veranda steps and , taking a large key from his pocket , opened the arched door and stood aside for her to precede him . |
| 27 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 28 | I pulled her to the side where Otley dragged her up the bank and began to dust her down as if she were not wet but dirty . |
| 29 | find out , he says , alright then , so he took her up the room , and all you could hear was |
| 30 | Mrs Fleming 's … well , she 's quite fat , and she looks a lot older than Mr Fleming — not that I think he 's about to do a Mr Rochester , stick her up the Loft nor nothing ! |