Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slowly got to her feet , her eyes wide with fear . |
| 2 | Her husband Reggie was not a strong believer , and it was only at his persistent insistence that Joyce sought medical advice on the eye cancer which eventually led to her death . |
| 3 | The kindness and generosity of the owners has been especially welcomed by one of the readers who is mostly confined to her home . |
| 4 | Shannon felt the bed sink slightly as he sat down beside her , and suddenly realised to her horror that the towel she 'd wrapped about herself had slipped off as she slept . |
| 5 | Wrapped up in it , like a cosy cocoon , she rolls around the stage , or strews parts of it across the floor only to sink to her knees in the middle of the pile . |
| 6 | Celia constantly refers to her mother 's drowning accident . |
| 7 | She 'll need me some day and then she 'll be quick enough to write to her mother . |
| 8 | She suddenly rose to her feet , pushing her chair back and reaching for her bag . |
| 9 | She was obviously growing so attacked to her little girl and then she had to give her away . ’ |
| 10 | By the time she reached the bottom the dragon had vanished , but this , far from mattering , only added to her amusement . |
| 11 | She seemed to find it difficult to make friends , and the fact that she hardly ever wandered far from the house only added to her loneliness . |
| 12 | Even the deeds of valour , so proudly recorded , only added to her depression as she reminded herself that each was committed in response to yet one more example of man 's inhumanity to man . |
| 13 | The skirt and top Rohan had given her only added to her inner confusion . |
| 14 | It was the same sensitive touch he brought to their lovemaking , and the knowledge only added to her store of love for him , for she saw how he was the sort of man who was all of a piece , mentally and physically , a complete human being , someone she could only admire , despite the hell he put her through . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For example , a woman highly committed to her parenting role would be particularly sensitive to an event which threatened her view of herself as a good mother , such as discovering her child had been regularly truanting from school . |
| 17 | But a stray recollection of a golliwog Maurice had given her for her fifth birthday undid the effect in an instant and she reached Swans ' Meadow with her eyes red and face blotchy from tears , only to find to her surprise that Ursula was in a similar condition . |
| 18 | There was no way they could avoid touching , and it only added to her torment of mind and spirit . |
| 19 | In this case , Brenda not only accommodates to her father 's language variety ( Standard English , in terms of syntax ) but actually echoes his words in agreement in the first part of her turn . |
| 20 | Her poetry indicates that Leapor did have some friends before meeting Freemantle ; Octavia , for example , respected her enough to listen to her advice , even if she probably did not accept it . |
| 21 | Two of the Bernard brothers first saw her seated at a bar drinking , whilst apparently listening to her male companion who was talking to her , quietly and seriously and in an unobtrusive manner . |
| 22 | She has to put her life back in order to rid her of Fred whose antics are only adding to her problems . |
| 23 | Despite her indulgence of him , she had kept him very much tied to her apron strings and had had great difficulty in relinquishing him to a wife . |
| 24 | She cleared her throat , then to her dismay tears suddenly sprang to her eyes . |
| 25 | ‘ I know what you mean , doctor , and no ; no , he has n't , but- ’ She suddenly sprang to her feet and was standing rigid . |
| 26 | Hattie Jacques was the matron , a part so suited to her size and manner that the very occupation of hospital head nurse might have been created for her , let alone the role in ‘ Carry On ’ films . |
| 27 | It was difficult to think of any animal less suited to her personality . |
| 28 | Rincewind hurriedly recalled that a dryad was so linked to her tree that she suffered wounds in sympathy |
| 29 | It is with regret that we report the death on 30 July 1992 of Margaret Blaikie , better known to her Salas colleagues as Miss Margaret Berry . |
| 30 | The tournament moves to Wembley today and Wright believes that this will prove to be to her advantage because the Perspex court is better suited to her slower style of play . |