Example sentences of "[adj] to her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damn it , she wailed silently , if he could do this to her with a mere glance , what might he have achieved last night if she had n't found the strength to conclude that little episode when she did ? |
| 2 | ‘ If I said this to her before her death why are you taxing me with these preposterous allegations only now ? ’ |
| 3 | It would be heartless to deny her the pleasure of feeling that she is making a useful contribution to the preparation of meals , but it would be equally unkind not to make it clear to her from the beginning just who will be in charge and wearing the chef 's hat ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At home , before the accident , he had n't said so much to her for years . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd be rude to her about silly things . |
| 7 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 8 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 9 | It was obvious to her from the beginning that there was too much overlap . |
| 10 | And perhaps most important of all was her ability to take whatever was sustaining and useful to her in the mid-nineteenth century 's version of ‘ womanliness ’ and ‘ domesticity ’ and to reject those elements which stifled , maimed and , sometimes literally , maddened other women . |
| 11 | Unless your elderly parent is known to be both very slow to take offence , and also to be a great lover of ‘ lists ’ for everything in life , it would be useless and irritating to her to be presented with a series of sensible menus to follow . |
| 12 | This grandmother can be a heroine for me now , although it would have meant more to have been closer to her in life . |
| 13 | It was really , it was really , it was really very helpful to her at her choir and her practice that night . |
| 14 | The faint silvery-white outline of his robe and his face were clearly discernible to her at all times , and so overpowering was the experience at first that in the early morning , as she poured out a cup of tea , she would pour a second cup and absent-mindedly walk towards the chair and say : ‘ Here 's a cup of tea for you , ’ and then jolt back to reality , shaking her head : ‘ Agh , I must be mad ! |
| 15 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 16 | Congenial or not , the truth had been made evident to her in the spread . |
| 17 | By ‘ Putting Herself in the Picture ’ she put her audience in the picture , and we are indebted to her for that . |
| 18 | I am personally indebted to her for her help in indexing my text book on bookselling . |
| 19 | As she said goodnight to them in turn she managed by some technique of charm or pure personality to convey to each of them that they were important to her in their own light . |
| 20 | ‘ And was this film important to her in any particular way ? ’ |
| 21 | Her face seemed puffy to her as if tears had been drenching it while she had been unconscious . |
| 22 | DENNING L.J. : In this case a wife claims sums due to her under a maintenance agreement . |
| 23 | He had therefore decided to be as charming as possible to her during the summer holiday in Italy — as soon as he had managed to persuade her to let him join the family there . |
| 24 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 25 | Hers was a friendly and comfortable presence and he was grateful to her for it . |
| 26 | He felt grateful to her for dragging him out of the pit and back into the daylight . |
| 27 | ‘ And you must be grateful to her for everything she does , and for all the sacrifices she must make on your behalf . |
| 28 | I am most grateful to her for allowing me to use this remarkable case study of John . |
| 29 | He was however grateful to her for curing him ; he had not had to use the purple crystals again . |
| 30 | ‘ She warned me that the constables were on their way , right enough , and I 'll always be grateful to her for that . |