Example sentences of "[adv] to her " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never said much to her , nor she to him . |
| 2 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 3 | She 'd known him barely two days , and already he 'd steered her through more emotions than she 'd known herself capable of — And , much to her very great surprise , over the next few days he insisted on showing her the countryside . |
| 4 | He sat above Daisy , talking gently to her , as she gradually sank into the bog . |
| 5 | In his temporary absence , Miss Mates refreshed Sally-Anne 's cup again , said gently to her , ‘ Do not mind Dr Neil 's manner , my dear . |
| 6 | She realized she had never seen the servants before except as part of the backdrop of Summer Lodge , now she saw that they were part of her life , real people with loves and loyalties especially to her and it made her feel suddenly humble . |
| 7 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 8 | She managed to get it right by watching the woman opposite to her . |
| 9 | He pulled a wooden chair away from the table and brought it so that he could sit opposite to her . |
| 10 | Someone sat opposite to her , hiding the view , and Miguel said , ‘ Did you enjoy your little walk ? |
| 11 | The pithy violence of Shostakovich 's First Sonata does not come naturally to her , but she is at home in the limpid impressionism of Rachmaninov 's G major Prelude , which on its own makes this disc worth having . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister , however , responded with the instinctive nationalist belligerence that came most naturally to her . |
| 13 | Unusually tall , even for the Plaza troupe which was her line , her excellent dancing seemed to come so naturally to her , that the other Girls were full of praise for her work . |
| 14 | She could put it on , like a posh accent , but it did n't come naturally to her . |
| 15 | But it did not , she found , come very naturally to her . |
| 16 | As it was , she smiled , rather falsely , for while laughter came naturally to her , smiling , as yet , did not , since only babies and adults can smile with conviction : she realized that her face felt uncomfortable wearing this expression and reverted to her habitual frown . |
| 17 | Gemma was beginning to believe , contrary to all her expectations and her mother 's teaching , that it might also come naturally to her . |
| 18 | Playing the spy was not something that came naturally to her , but in this particular instance she sensed it was her duty . |
| 19 | And Caroline , who had never developed the art of flirting , behaved as if it came as naturally to her as breathing . |
| 20 | She wished to arrive at Frizingley Hall that day around two o'clock , a convenient hour when , with luncheon just over , Mrs Amabel Dallam would be lying on her bed recovering from the exertions of ordering and then pecking at her food , Miss Linnet Gage reading aloud to her , perhaps , as an aid to the digestive processes of one lady , the nest-building of the other , so that Cara might give Miss Gemma Dallam her fitting alone . |
| 21 | And so when Luke had brought home a copy of the People 's Charter and read it aloud to her she had listened ; considered ; believed . |
| 22 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
| 23 | At first there was an uneasy silence , but after a while he thawed enough to read odd items of news aloud to her . |
| 24 | The barman looked tough enough to her . |
| 25 | I never got near enough to her to tell her about the boxing and eventually left home as soon as I could . ’ |
| 26 | She had made her attitude clear enough to her , heaven knows , but here she was , still coming back every other Sunday , year after year , as welcome as the Irish potato blight . |
| 27 | ‘ Would it make you feel any better if I took the cardigan down to her , ’ said Yanto . |
| 28 | At once he signed down to her to be silent . |
| 29 | His head bent slowly down to her , his eyes burned deeper and , held immovable , she endured the first kiss she had ever received . |
| 30 | Jo 's voice comes down to her , gentle . |