Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | She drew herself up to her full height . |
| 32 | She shooed him back to bed in front of her and he went meekly enough , entering with studied indifference , tapping his fingertips together as he went . |
| 33 | The little boy , sensing that his mother was upset , had come to stand by her and she lifted him on to her lap . |
| 34 | She lifted herself on to hands and knees , edged to the centre of the girder , waited until her limbs had stopped shaking , and started to crawl . |
| 35 | The wooden seat , when she lifted herself on to it , was still warm . |
| 36 | ‘ Yeah ; she came to Uncle Hamish 's a couple of times , and she drove me back to Glasgow once . ’ |
| 37 | All too soon it was time to go and it was almost reluctantly that she drove him back to Brooklands . |
| 38 | In the evening she drove them back to the village . |
| 39 | She threw them on to the table and looked down at Doyle and Tug . |
| 40 | Then she threw herself on to the bed and stuck the pillow over her head , biting her teeth together , absolutely determined not to cry . |
| 41 | But the corridor remained silent , and with a sob of despair she threw herself on to the bed and cried till her store of tears was used up . |
| 42 | ‘ You cow , ’ cried Sam , without malice : only a few months ago she would have pressed the plum into her friend 's hair , but now she threw it on to the pavement where it lay easily among the cabbage stalks and traces of vomit . |
| 43 | She hauled me down to her lair to find out . |
| 44 | And finally as she hauled herself on to the ice-slick rock where the sun pulsed fire into her eyes , she saw |
| 45 | She hauled herself back to reality . |
| 46 | She handed them over to her husband and was terrified by his reaction . |
| 47 | She handed it back to him . |
| 48 | Draining her glass , she handed it back to him , got to her feet , and walked off . |
| 49 | ‘ It was supposed to be in my hair , ’ she told him as she followed him through to the spacious kitchen , deciding honesty was the best policy in the circumstances . |
| 50 | She followed him on to the train for the short journey to Bruges . |
| 51 | Feeling rather conspicuous in her towel and bikini , she followed him up to the palatially decorated VIP suite , and into the bathroom — trying not to notice the bedroom they passed through on the way . |
| 52 | Leonora felt very subdued as she followed him down to the relatively peaceful little beach of Lee Haven , where years before Joshua Probert had built a safe anchorage for his boats . |
| 53 | She angled herself on to a stool . |
| 54 | Rapt , ecstatic , she willed me on to ever-greater feats of ardour . |
| 55 | She guided him back to the lift , down to the ground floor and the street and into a taxi . |
| 56 | Eventually I stopped a very helpful young lady member of the staff , told her of my predicament and she guided me back to my table . |
| 57 | She pulled herself up to the level of the bonnet by hanging on to the wing mirror then snatched at a scrap of folded paper . |
| 58 | She pulled herself back to the point , assuming once more an expression of sobriety . |
| 59 | She waved him in to the sitting-room , and Piers looked up as they entered , his eyes expressionless as he took in the identity of the visitor . |
| 60 | At first she could n't find him anywhere but finally she tracked him down to the big barn . |