Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] to her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was also advised that she should continue to try to reduce weight and should not return to her work ( which involved standing all the time ) until she had been seen in the Outpatient Clinic in six weeks time . |
| 2 | Being infected should not add to her credibility , while not being so should not disqualify her from comment , she says . |
| 3 | In a cloak and dagger operation , he got in touch and insisted he could only come to her shop when there would be no other customers around . |
| 4 | After the break between his father and mother , he could not respond to her affection . |
| 5 | I reckon the closest Fergie could ever get to her role model would be pulling pints in the Queen Vic down in Albert Square . |
| 6 | Nothing had changed , except she could now admit to her love . |
| 7 | A new baby would only add to her workload . |
| 8 | He could imagine the words in which she would later report to her husband . |
| 9 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 10 | I do n't know what maggot has got into her head , but I will not dance to her piping , any more than you . |
| 11 | Historians will never agree to her character , and in these circumstances , it is perhaps inevitable that the picture of a romantic but ill-fated queen painted by Schiller and Swinburne , amongst others , is the one most likely to engage popular sympathy . |
| 12 | Alyakkh is a daughter of Jones 's Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Al Bahathri and , while she may never aspire to her dam 's position in turf history , she should be capable of winning what appears a modest contest . |
| 13 | ‘ The latest events you describe can only add to her unhappiness . |
| 14 | The consumer is left to figure out what on earth a ‘ non-fibre shedding tampon ’ can possibly contribute to her quality of time-of-the-month . |