Example sentences of "[verb] to her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage . |
| 2 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 3 | Discussing Arnie with Guido did n't appeal to her in the least . |
| 4 | Not only her own people but other people used to come to her for advice … |
| 5 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 6 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 7 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 8 | Soon , soon if she has the courage , it will not matter , mt will be too late for anyone to protest , to come to her with sensible and sound advice . |
| 9 | In a way she was happy that Harry had chosen to come to her in his distress , yet it highlighted his attitude towards her . |
| 10 | ‘ This is my favourite place , ’ Jeremy shouts to her above the music , ‘ fantastic girls here , really alive and witty . |
| 11 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 12 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 13 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 14 | He proposed to her on Valentine 's Day 1989 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Her punishment for wanting that English Protestant , my father , who proposed to her by telegram . |
| 17 | Instead , Paul , in his closing address , implicitly rebuked the Theological Commission for having refused to confer upon the Virgin Mary the title of ‘ Mother of the Church ’ in the chapter devoted to her in De Ecclesia . |
| 18 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 19 | Laura had said once , when he grumbled to her about Mr Simpson . |
| 20 | The court further ordered that there be no soliciting of any information relating to her from herself , from staff , pupils or residents at any institution , or from any carer or relative . |
| 21 | When a female is ready to spawn she will leave her cave ( in which she will have previously have spent a lot of time ) and approach the male , who will display to her by quivering his body slightly and beating his tail in front of her , so that she is buffeted by the current created . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Bracken Cottage , which had come to her on Elise 's death , was all very well , but living out in one of the Sherwood Forest villages would have entailed long rush-hour drives twice a day , and already Merrill had gathered that Luke Travis was n't the sort of man to take kindly to excuses about traffic-jams . |
| 24 | The word of Jesus had come to her as a great challenge . |
| 25 | Lin McLean , a Strathclyde University student counsellor and AUT activist , said she had not had anyone come to her with problems over a tutor-student relationships in eight years , and that the guidelines were only a guide to help union members in a delicate area of their work . |
| 26 | Since her inheritance , ten years ago , all her pleasures and hopes and excitements had come to her in such small parcels . |
| 27 | His words had come to her in snatches , barely audible . " |
| 28 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 29 | She thought she might have , that he had come to her in her sleep , whispered to her as he was whispering to her now , but she had forced the dream images away , she had denied them as she had denied what he wanted of her from the beginning . |
| 30 | Gran had been refused a bank loan for new guttering — because of her age , she opined huffily — so had decided to sell off some possessions that had come to her from her mother . |