Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] to her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for once Lisa managed to suppress her irritation and bit back the impatient demand for an answer that she felt instinctively rising to her lips . |
| 2 | She went off to attend to her cultures , and Reynolds handed in the form and the catalogue to the copy clerk . |
| 3 | Her reputation as a glutton meant that while she often visited the matron with digestive problems these escapades did little harm to her popularity . |
| 4 | The inquest was told Sarah left her digs in early December but did not go to her home . |
| 5 | But a doctor at the inquest said he believed the complications could have happened anyway and the unmatched blood did not lead to her death . |
| 6 | She did not refer to her anguish ; nor did she to mine , but she bent all her energies towards distracting me , insofar as that was possible . |
| 7 | The lights were dim , and the room was dark ; her brother did not respond to her cries , so the girl went inside to look for him . |
| 8 | Vass , predictably , did not rise to her challenge . |
| 9 | She had the feeling that this morning 's events would have been faithfully reported by Marie and she sincerely hoped that the girl did not add to her earnings by serving as a waitress here . |
| 10 | He did not come to her bed that night , nor for many nights after . |
| 11 | Miguel Rafaelo did n't react to her tirade . |
| 12 | But the nuts did n't come to her house . |
| 13 | Did n't come to her funeral ? |
| 14 | At the tiny station of Plowden an angry old woman asked whether we had permission to park our car in the yard , so I did n't add to her troubles by asking for a ticket to Ludlow , as I had intended , but drove on to Marshbrook where the porter was more kindly . ’ |
| 15 | And , although she never actually put it into words she had made it perfectly clear that she would put him out of business if he did n't agree to her terms . |
| 16 | The connections were loose , and the optic burner did n't respond to her impulse command . |
| 17 | If the truth were known , he had only acceded to her wishes because it took him away from her , allowing him access to libraries , bookshops and students of all races and creeds — many of them Irish . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She had already discovered to her cost just how strongly attracted she was to him on a physical level . |
| 20 | One horrified look told him that Daisy had already sunk to her pasterns . |
| 21 | She would have been asleep if the fly had not returned to her hand . |
| 22 | Léonie had hardly written to her schoolfriends in England that summer . |
| 23 | Hands tingling with fear , hearing only the thundering of her heart , Isabel stepped over the threshold to confront the wife of the man who had once come to her aid , and whom she must now betray . |
| 24 | the unzipped valise that had once belonged to her sister Christine . |
| 25 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 26 | She stared at him as he sipped his lager , thinking it was a shame his compassion for handicapped people had n't extended to her sister when she had most needed him . |
| 27 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 28 | In casual , chatty tones , she told me that " my news " had n't penetrated to her Surrey retreat , and in fact had n't reached her until an hour ago when she 'd arrived , having had nothing to the contrary since last year , to keep the traditional family tryst at my father 's house . |
| 29 | Of course John , her husband , told Elizabeth that Ivy had been right about the fuse-boxes : they just had n't come to her notice , so she had to eat humble pie . |
| 30 | The fad had n't lasted to her time , but she still remembered articles in the learned techno-archaeology journals . |