Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to her [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrapped up in it , like a cosy cocoon , she rolls around the stage , or strews parts of it across the floor only to sink to her knees in the middle of the pile . |
| 2 | It was the same sensitive touch he brought to their lovemaking , and the knowledge only added to her store of love for him , for she saw how he was the sort of man who was all of a piece , mentally and physically , a complete human being , someone she could only admire , despite the hell he put her through . |
| 3 | There was no way they could avoid touching , and it only added to her torment of mind and spirit . |
| 4 | Yeah , she ca n't obviously talk to her husband about it because George is her ex-husband and he |
| 5 | They always chose an aisle seat so that Sweetheart could slip away to talk to her friends without disturbing anyone . |
| 6 | Much as he wished that Aunt Tossie might keep her mind on the Form Book , where their interests in beating the Handicapper ran together , he had nevertheless acceded to her insistence on a party , a small house party , for Nicandra 's first real ball . |
| 7 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 8 | ‘ Diana has always said to her friends throughout her royal career , ‘ I will never become Queen ’ . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Léonie had hardly written to her schoolfriends in England that summer . |
| 11 | The director had probably taken a room for her there tonight assuming she 'd look for something more suited to her purse in her own time . |
| 12 | After leaving Dekalb at 20 , Cindy always returned to her mother for advice — except when it came to Gere , 17 years her senior . |
| 13 | A friend of mine once returned to her house after a few month 's absence and found that though the font of her desk looked exactly the same as before she left , termites had eaten out the back of it and destroyed the contents of several drawers . |
| 14 | She also referred to her mother in a slightly dismissive way in the course of two reported interviews . |
| 15 | Charles later saw to her commemoration at thirteen other churches too . |
| 16 | But now added to her feelings of distress , are disgust and anger . |
| 17 | But now added to her feelings of distress , are disgust and anger . |
| 18 | But now added to her feelings of distress , are disgust and anger . |
| 19 | She firmly corrected those , including myself , who unwittingly referred to her book as A View from the Harbour . |
| 20 | A wild sow often drops to her knees outside the nest and crawls forward , rooting the bedding . |
| 21 | The commissioner now appeals to Her Majesty in Council . |
| 22 | Recently seen opposite Warren Beatty in the title role of the re-released Lilith as a mentally ill girl suffering from ‘ nymphomania ’ , Seberg was hounded by an FBI dirty tricks campaign after her vocal support for the Black Panthers movement , which reportedly led to her suicide in 1979 . |
| 23 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 24 | Please write to her care of PR Promotions at ACE . |
| 25 | On the other hand , perhaps he was simply agreeing to her demands in order to avoid another argument . |
| 26 | She glanced round as Melissa entered , alerted by the creak of the heavy wooden door , but immediately returned to her task of removing faded blooms and replacing them with fresh ones . |
| 27 | Flavia Sherman smiled sympathetically at Chuck for a moment then turned to her husband with an ill-concealed sigh of exasperation . |
| 28 | She gave me Zdenka 's German address and asked if I could at least write to her daughter from time to time to keep her spirits up . |
| 29 | After a while , when the sickness had passed , she went to the wash-hand basin to wash and freshen-up , then returned to her seat at the dinner table . |
| 30 | Poor Hugh never came to her mind at all . |