Example sentences of "[pers pn] to her [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion she even invited me to her home in Chelsea , but I did n't accept as I knew if I did I would only have to ask her back to my place in Whitechapel . |
| 2 | Myra has wedding bells ringing in her ears all day ; I do n't want her to add me to her list of brides . |
| 3 | She took him to her home in a middle-class London suburb and her mother disapproved . |
| 4 | Chicken Likken was holding him to her breast with her wings , trying to comfort him . |
| 5 | The announcement that Guy was to be godfather to the new baby brought her to her senses with a sharp jolt . |
| 6 | But the cynical , knowing expression , mingled with the hunger in his eyes , brought her to her senses like a bucket of iced water tossed with ruthless insensitivity on an innocent sleeper . |
| 7 | He urged her to her feet with the pressure of his hands . |
| 8 | He bent down , thrust his unshaven face and stinking breath into Sally-Anne 's , put his great hands under her armpits and hauled her to her feet by main force , Poll still clinging desperately to her . |
| 9 | With treacherous defiance , her eyes closed , abandoning her to her fate like the rest of her body , and she felt a despair that her brain was so languid that it was n't helping her to deny him . |
| 10 | When she left , Emerson volunteered to escort her to her car at the bottom of the drive . |
| 11 | Well , finally she left , and I saw her to her jeep with the new hair-drier which I found I had to press her to keep . |
| 12 | In no time at all Travis had a good fire going , and the heat from it drew her to her knees beside it , hands held out to the warmth . |
| 13 | The thought disturbed her and brought her to her knees by Scathach 's scarred corpse . |
| 14 | They took her to her stall in the market , demanding she handed over the arms and propaganda they accused her of storing there . |
| 15 | One contained the proofs of an article she had written for an academic journal ; she scanned the contents of the envelope briefly and pinned it to her noticeboard to be dealt with on her return from Oxford . |
| 16 | Several hours later the bird 's relieved owner arrived at the station , explaining the parrot has flown off as she took it to her grandchildren for a treat . |
| 17 | One woman compared it to her experience of being in service in the past : ‘ It 's like being in service . |
| 18 | She took her frilly cap out of the locker and skewered it to her hair with the pins , adjusting it until she was satisfied that it was absolutely correct . |
| 19 | One pitched out , hitting the ground with a sickening thud ; Erin yelled , trying to hold on , but she fell too , attempting to roll , but she could n't make it to her feet with one shin-bone staring whitely at her through her pant-leg . |
| 20 | and she willingly made a gift of it to her mother in sincere , if perhaps slightly exasperated affection . |
| 21 | She lugged it to her studio in a wheelbarrow . |
| 22 | She gritted her teeth and made it to her room in spite of everything . |
| 23 | She frequently made use of Coptic craftsmen and one of them , a leather-worker , who had been repairing a handbag she was particularly fond of , was bringing it to her flat with his small son when he was attacked by a gang of youths . |
| 24 | But first she invited us to her retreat in rural Sweden to talk about life , love , family — and home |