Example sentences of "to her by " in BNC.
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| 1 | SONIA SUTCLIFFE , who was awarded £600,000 in libel damages against Private Eye , gave a ‘ misleading ’ answer in court when she was questioned about a £25,000 loan given to her by a friend , it was alleged in the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 2 | The friend was a newspaper reporter and the money was in fact paid to her by The Mail on Sunday , Gavin Lightman QC , representing the magazine in an appeal for a new trial , said . |
| 3 | Like Hannah she is angry at the ideal presented to her by the advertising world , as she feels it has nothing to do with her , yet still has the power to make her feel dissatisfied . |
| 4 | When Kylie went shopping for more additions to her by now Imelda Marcos scale wardrobe in one of London 's stores , the result was inevitable . |
| 5 | She had engaged a young girl , only fourteen years of age , called Maria , brought to her by the caretaker of the house , and vouched for as ‘ good and obedient ’ . |
| 6 | Wilson quickly realised how lucky she had been to have the Misses Wynne directed to her by kind Miss Blagden . |
| 7 | She was also interested in literature , subjected at home to a diet of Plotinus , the third-century Greek philosopher , and especially Pascal , read to her by her father whilst she and her mother peeled potatoes . |
| 8 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 9 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 10 | She had the name ‘ Sarva Khepi ’ given to her by the villagers , which means ‘ The woman who loves all things ’ . |
| 11 | The most vivid memory I have of that Christmas Day is of Shanti , now almost two years old , walking round and round the long dining-room table , pulling a little toy engine given to her by one of the boys , round and round , smiling and smiling . |
| 12 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| 13 | If a little girl can not feel herself able to win the heart of her father , her own father who has known her so well and so long , and is tied to her by mutual blood-ties , I reasoned , then how can the young woman who comes later have any deep confidence in the power of her womanliness . |
| 14 | In her defence the artiste explained that this had only been caused by the persistent attention paid to her by mosquitoes that night . |
| 15 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 16 | Her punishment for wanting that English Protestant , my father , who proposed to her by telegram . |
| 17 | Emma Lyon , who made her way up the social scale by similar means , would have found herself in prison earlier had it not been for the lifeline thrown to her by her friends and former lovers . |
| 18 | The back door was barred to her by the people she would have to pass in the kitchen . |
| 19 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 20 | ( A supplementary pension payable under the Supplementary Benefits scheme is not taxable , nor are voluntary payments made to her by you or other relatives , for which you can claim tax-free allowance . |
| 21 | There are rules for deciding how much is taxable , and these should be explained to her by the insurance company with which she is dealing . |
| 22 | When a female is ready to spawn she will leave her cave ( in which she will have previously have spent a lot of time ) and approach the male , who will display to her by quivering his body slightly and beating his tail in front of her , so that she is buffeted by the current created . |
| 23 | IN 1989 , love letters written to her by Commander Tim Laurence were stolen and offered to a national newspaper . |
| 24 | Word of the arrival in London of the new king was brought to her by Prince Richard . |
| 25 | Any small hope held out to her by circumstances , or by her lover , is as a wisp which she can spin and twist into a thread , and if she gathers enough of these her feelings tell her that she will be able to bind them into a strong rope . |
| 26 | She knew that at least the dress — given to her by Monsieur de Levantiére as a farewell gift — looked right . |
| 27 | He had explained his character to her by saying , ‘ He lives half in the air ; it 's only his toes that touch the ground . ’ |
| 28 | HONEST Sarah Foster 's reward for handing back £1,000 paid to her by bank error was £25 — just 2.5 per cent . |
| 29 | In the recordings , the man is heard repeatedly calling the woman ‘ darling ’ and referring to her by pet-names ‘ Squidge ’ and ‘ Squidgy ’ . |
| 30 | After her Essex Ladies team-mate Jenny Stoute had rushed on the track to embrace her , Gunnell then embarked on one of the slowest laps of honour imaginable as , draped in the Union Jack given to her by the crowd , she stopped to receive hugs from the fans . |