Example sentences of "to her [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked for her and came to talk to her at every possible moment , at milking , butter-making , cheese-making , among chickens and among pigs . |
| 2 | A framed certificate was presented to her at the Good Companions ' meeting last week by chairman Janet Gill . |
| 3 | And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage . |
| 4 | A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table . |
| 5 | That much Miguel had volunteered to her at an early stage . |
| 6 | Damn it , she wailed silently , if he could do this to her with a mere glance , what might he have achieved last night if she had n't found the strength to conclude that little episode when she did ? |
| 7 | He poured equal quantities of coffee and hot milk into a cup and handed it to her with a mocking grin . |
| 8 | But more often than not , whenever they were under the same roof together , he shared her bed and , now that her initial awkwardness had abated — for she had never seen a naked human being of either sex before and had always been discouraged from looking too closely at herself — he made love to her with a straightforward vigour she found attractive . |
| 9 | Now each absurdly impossible picture returned to her with a sardonic caption attached : Oh , yeah ? |
| 10 | He bent down then , plucking something from the grass , then holding it out to her with a grave smile . |
| 11 | He made love to her with a driving desperation that matched the excesses which were to shock her in retrospect , and if his flesh bore the imprint of her nails and teeth afterwards , there were faint reciprocal marks on her body , mostly the legacy of an erotically suckling mouth . |
| 12 | Here , ’ he held out his hand to her with a little smile , ‘ take my hand to show you forgive me for alarming you . ’ |
| 13 | He turned to her with a searching expression , as if he suspected her of withholding something . |
| 14 | ‘ She … can draw you to her with a single hair ’ , ’ he murmured . |
| 15 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 16 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 17 | ‘ You may bring a woman photographer , ’ Felipe de Santis said coldly , turning back to her with an astonished look that she should consider questioning him . |
| 18 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 19 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |
| 20 | Sheila talks to her mother about the situation and her mother says the social workers are quite right ; Sheila was heavy-handed with the children and has had this coming to her for a long time . |
| 21 | I did n't always agree with her Chopin , and her Liszt was a disaster area , but I 'd listen to her for a long time if it 's Schumann . |
| 22 | I beg you to allow me to speak to her for a few moments , and , if you would be so kind , also to yourself . |
| 23 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 24 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 25 | Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before . |
| 26 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 27 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 28 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 29 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 30 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |