Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] to her [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 made at the moment , but I was erm Gemma came for tea last night and she wears glasses she 's long sighted in one eye and er , anyway I noticed she 's not wearing them as much now , so I said to her mum what 's happening ?
2 She did n't say what it was or who published it or anything , but it made me you know think you know , so I wrote to her care of Writers something and erm asked her what 's the name of it I would like to read it because I had also written something about the er American Indians and erm er who 's the publisher or what 's it called , I 'd like to read it .
3 So I spoke to her mum .
4 So she went to her room and wrote a four-page letter describing exactly what had happened three or four years ago .
5 ‘ Yes , you do that , love , ’ said Mrs Beavis , and down she went to her kitchen .
6 Finally she returned to her dorm , terrified not so much at the prospect of getting caught but because she had come back empty handed .
7 Nor was she surprised when Silas lapsed into silence during the remainder of the journey , and when they reached home she hastened to her room , where tears of frustration rolled down her cheeks .
8 When she went home she spoke to her mother about it , and she told Anne not to worry .
9 One woman described how differently she reacted to her father 's death , when she was thirty-four , and her mother 's death , ten years later :
10 Now she went to her corner next to which was a cupboard no one seemed to know about except Mrs Brocklebank , shared by her and a certain amount of animal life , and deposited her bag and coat .
11 FERGIE may have found it difficult to learn Her Royal Lessons , but you do n't have to be a fitness connoisseur to see that she has learned a thing or two about keeping in Of course her title of the Disappearing Duchess takes on a different meaning now a year ago it referred to her ability to lose five stones of regal flab .
12 Then I went to her house in Newtown .
13 Sometimes I think to her cost … ’
14 Telling everyone about her mum and dad when they and erm how she talked to her mum about that , and it helped her .
15 Then she went to her office and prepared some work for the morning .
16 And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door .
17 Then she pointed to her watch , making an excuse to get away .
18 From there she returned to her room until , leaving herself plenty of time to spare , and dressed in her best suit , a leaf-green wool affair with a rounded neck and long-line jacket , she ran a final comb through her shining pale gold hair and left the hotel for an address which she had learned was actually on the outskirts of Mariánské Láznë .
19 ‘ The little girl in the film Poltergeist had her audience sitting on the edge of their seats when she revealed to her family that the strange creatures from the TV were back to haunt them all .
20 For it was around eleven that morning , when she returned to her office after going to consult Dave Smith about some matter , that Jimmy told her chirpily , ‘ I knew I did n't put this tie on for nothing .
21 This was the fourth attack on her car since October when she moved to her home in Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill .
22 To read Mrs McDermott 's vivid recollection of those final precious moments when she spoke to her son and tidied his hair before he ran off to play in Ormeau Park where he met his killer would melt the hardest of hearts .
23 Everybody knew when they went to her place they would always find tons to eat .
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