Example sentences of "[verb] to her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athena ( largely lost ) moved to her left , aegis stretched out before her . |
| 2 | Bhutto 's confrontation with rival governments in the provinces , particularly Punjab [ see pp. 36525 ; 37204 ] ; her differences with Muslim fundamentalist parties [ see p. 36525 ] and her uneasy relationship with the President [ see p. 37203 ] , also contributed to her political demise . |
| 3 | But Arnold seems unaware of the strain that Jellett must have borne specifically as a woman artist , and one can not help but wonder if this contributed to her early death . |
| 4 | She was obviously growing so attacked to her little girl and then she had to give her away . ’ |
| 5 | Instead of rushing to a telephone box less than 40 yards away or walking to her nearby home , Joanna trudged to the leisure centre . |
| 6 | This may be a good moment to indicate to her very gently that she has grieved well and long , and that if she is beginning to feel that her period of mourning is nearing its end ( even though you appreciate that she will always carry the scars of her sorrow ) , you are ready to give her any help she needs to adjust to her new and different life . |
| 7 | It took her some time to adjust to her new billing as sister to the future Princess of Wales . |
| 8 | A fireman and his girlfriend are tonight engaged after he proposed to her forty feet off the ground . |
| 9 | As it stands , this organisation does not make clear how the parts relate to each other , what the development is , or even what the point is of some of the parts ( why should there be a special section devoted to her final novel but not the others , for example ? ) . |
| 10 | Great Britain is the richest empire on the globe : she has one imperial metropolis , and one small quarter of the general capital devoted to her public offices ; if , therefore , there are any ten acres on the globe that ought to be covered with externally imposing and conveniently constructed public edifices , they are those adjoining Whitehall . |
| 11 | SCOTTISH champion Emma Donaldson , who rose to her highest world ranking of 39 last week , has now set her sights on the Far East in a bid to make further progress , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 12 | To avoid the same thing happening to her other horse , Vivian is using specialists company MMB Farmkey from Banbury . |
| 13 | There was no easy way to answer the bitterness in her voice , and Julia remembered what David had said about his mother 's probable feelings during the war and tried to imagine what it must have been like for Mrs Wallington , stuck in Scotland , knowing only a little but guessing all too much of what was happening to her own country — and to her two sons . |
| 14 | She helped me carry it far along the dunes , dutifully clutching the lines and winch to her flat little chest and clicking the ratchet on the drum , until we reached a point well out of sight from the house . |
| 15 | They 're desperate to see , and they want to her new T V and all |
| 16 | She realised that he had n't ever responded to her first mildly scolding words as they left the Hamiltons ' . |
| 17 | Margaret had been close to tears as she 'd responded to her elder daughter 's terse demand for further information — a phenomenon in itself , as Gina knew her mother rarely allowed emotion to disturb the still beautiful contours of her face . |
| 18 | He had n't responded to her last shout . |
| 19 | The animal , restless , cold and hungry , responded to her sudden soothing . |
| 20 | A critic for the Art News responded to her 1926 exhibition by stating : |
| 21 | Almost , in the midst of the new apartment that she hated as much as he did , though it had been decorated to her own specifications , she said , ‘ I have been to see my son . ’ |
| 22 | Seated beside Miss Jarman on the faded red-leather seat , she could see houses and shops and people passing the window , and a certain pleasure added to her nervous apprehension . |
| 23 | The skirt and top Rohan had given her only added to her inner confusion . |
| 24 | Jenna knew without being told that Marguerite was finding this difficult ; each mile had added to her own anxiety , and Alain 's mother was feeling many anxieties too . |
| 25 | Her plain black dress and lace cap , which seemed stuck to her iron-grey hair more by force of will than anything else , all added to her forbidding appearance . |
| 26 | Kim 's close cropped blond hair added to her dramatic appearance . |
| 27 | , Laetitia-Matilda ( 1759–1835 ) , author , was born in London and baptized 8 August 1759 , the second of three children and only daughter of Sir John Hawkins , attorney , musicologist , and biographer whom Samuel Johnson [ q.v. ] famously called ‘ unclubbable ’ , and his wife Sidney Storer , whose inheritance ( added to her original dowry ) enabled the family in 1760 to acquire a fine house in Twickenham . |
| 28 | An elegant carriage and a vivacious manner must have added to her physical attractions . |
| 29 | Furthermore , she showed no signs of hesitation in answering my questions regarding blood transfusions and I was therefore satisfied that she was capable of understanding and signing a declaration of refusal of blood products as relating to her subsequent obstetric procedure . ’ |
| 30 | He would not tell her , this funny bewitching little English girl , that he had come to her first because he could not keep away from her . |