Example sentences of "her [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child . |
| 2 | Louisa received it so , and her heart went out to the suffering woman . |
| 3 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 4 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 5 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 6 | Her mind skimmed back to the dinner on Friday night . |
| 7 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 8 | As she sucked thoughtfully on the cigarette her mind wandered back to the contents of the dossier they had prepared on Benin . |
| 9 | Her mind flew back to the moment last evening when Benedict had come at her out of the shadows of the hall as she had come downstairs with Lady Merchiston 's empty supper tray . |
| 10 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 11 | Her glance moved over to the phone — should she ring Ven about her car ? |
| 12 | Now she found there was a window-catch ; she slid it aside and her feet whispered out to the balustrade , scarcely touching the ground . |
| 13 | They strolled through Paris together , after her husband went back to the front . |
| 14 | On the evening of a masked ball in the palace she came visiting with Bothwell and other lords , and while she chatted to her husband they — with or without her knowledge went down to the cellar to prepare the gunpowder stored there . |
| 15 | Her hand went out to the telephone , then drew back . |
| 16 | She and her detective rushed over to the photographer and she pleaded with him to hand over his film , and tell nothing of what he had seen . |
| 17 | But I 'm a wage-earner myself , you know , now , ’ she said , and her thoughts travelled back to the past month , when she had eked out their very slender resources by taking out a couple of children every afternoon . |
| 18 | Ashley 's concentration wavered and her thoughts travelled back to the man in the car . |
| 19 | Encouraged by their neighbour 's cheeriness , Ellie and her brother went round to the back of her house and shyly waited to be let in . |
| 20 | As a last resort , she and her son went back to the Children 's Home . |