Example sentences of "[vb pp] to her [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 3 | A framed certificate was presented to her at the Good Companions ' meeting last week by chairman Janet Gill . |
| 4 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 5 | She had never responded to his embarrassing invitation , made to her during the permissive sixties , to use ‘ Haverford ’ , his Christian name . |
| 6 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 7 | Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables . |
| 8 | A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table . |
| 9 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 10 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| 11 | Sarah Moon , a London acupuncturist who specialises in pain relief during labour , says that women are often referred to her through the National Childbirth Trust or an active birth group . |
| 12 | His words , in that elusively caressing accent , floated to her in the quiet little office . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |