Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything that has happened to her over the past year has been genuine , from breaking her thumb to the operation , not to mention all the hassle she has had from standing by her father . |
| 2 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 3 | Could something have happened to her on the way home last night ? |
| 4 | He had explained to her about the imitation dove that would fly out from the high altar during the Easter mass and light a great cart of fireworks . |
| 5 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 6 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 7 | Her mother had stopped crocheting , so Jessie said , and was in the sitting-room going through a catalogue of curtain material for yet another change at the windows and had decided firmly against anything resembling Nottingham Lace ; her mind was now set on drapes with pelmets , so Jessie had whispered to her in the back shop a short while ago . |
| 8 | Maria stood there , hating him , but not for anything he had done to her in the past . |
| 9 | She mouthed him , as he had done to her before the bite of his lust . |
| 10 | Was it true , what he had said to her about the value of this family life ? |
| 11 | No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died . |
| 12 | A minute more and she was certain she had walked further than the distance from the van to where Sniffy had called to her from the undergrowth . |
| 13 | A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table . |
| 14 | He had shown , or so it had seemed to her at the time , genuine concern for others . |
| 15 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
| 16 | Papa , of course , was an actor , and had spoken to her about the pit and the gallery , the stage , the curtain and dressing-rooms . |
| 17 | Mrs. Wicksted reported that a member of the Bingo Club had spoken to her re the condition of the road outside the hall . |
| 18 | Mrs. Wicksted reported that a member of the Bingo Club had spoken to her re the condition of the road outside the hall . |
| 19 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
| 20 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 21 | What had happened to her in the church — and in a church — and with him . |
| 22 | I was n't prepared for what had happened to her in the year since I had last seen her . |
| 23 | It was as though all that had happened to her in the past year was suddenly before her , and all her own shortcomings into the bargain had landed on her in a heap , and were destroying her . |
| 24 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |