Example sentences of "to her [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A framed certificate was presented to her at the Good Companions ' meeting last week by chairman Janet Gill . |
| 2 | And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage . |
| 3 | A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table . |
| 4 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 5 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 11 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 12 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 13 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 14 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 15 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 16 | He was determined to lie to her to the very end . |
| 17 | He spoke to her outside the social services and pleaded with her to come home . |
| 18 | They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile . |
| 19 | Every sound , every movement , told her what he was doing … the shoes placed neatly side by side , the braces flicked down over his shoulders , the trousers carefully folded and laid across the back of the wicker chair , his footsteps coming to her over the creaking floorboards ; every sound , every movement … he was touching her now , warm , tickling , smooth , his naked body moving up and down against her , his voice in her ear , soft and loving , fingers probing , his mouth on hers ; the gasp of excitement when he entered her , jabbing , hard , growing excited . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I walked back into the lounge and said , ‘ You clever girl ’ to Sally and sat close to her on the wide sofa . |
| 22 | After a while he took off her cardigan and his jersey and then the rest of their clothes , and made love to her on the folk-weave bedspread of her university bed . |
| 23 | Sara stood by the open window and the scent of tobacco plant was wafted strongly to her on the warm evening air . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 26 | Her mind slid over this problem and rejected it , her thoughts returning to memories of Johnny as he had been when he had attempted to make love to her on the previous night . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Angel , ’ murmured Jay , waving to her along the dark road . |
| 30 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |