Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] to him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had explained to him about Flora , thinking that his undoubtedly benevolent heart would be touched . |
| 2 | She had explained to him about her mother ; he had met her mother ; he had seemed to size up the problem , had said the right things in his oblique way . |
| 3 | That was why she had reacted to him with such ferocity , why she had such difficulty tearing her mind away from him , why she shivered inside each time she pictured his face . |
| 4 | What was it she had said to him about the missing family silver ? |
| 5 | He had picked her up half-conscious , and while he carried her to the hospital she had clung to him with a pitiful force . |
| 6 | And peered into his face , as she had done to him as a child , searching for signs of fever . |
| 7 | And she had talked to him about me . ’ |
| 8 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 9 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |