Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] to her " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished I had a boat as we walked down the steps , through the gate and the hundred yards or so to her door . |
| 2 | Plainly she possessed none , except perhaps to her cat-creature far away , which she had condemned to death . |
| 3 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 4 | It is well known that only a great dancer-artist can suggest the development of the sixteen-year-old Aurora , happy at her birthday , into the dreamy figure the Prince meets in the woodland glade and on to her final entrance as a triumphant princess fully awake to her responsibilities as Queen-to-be . |
| 5 | She came at the same time ; then , as he lay there , quivering in his spent heat , she rolled off him and on to her knees . |
| 6 | Tears welled up in her eyes , and she did nothing to stop them from spilling through her fingers and on to her cheeks . |
| 7 | The sound of Nathan 's returning footsteps brought her swiftly and instinctively to her feet . |
| 8 | Amazingly , perversely , and rather to her regret ( a flat battery would have been a cast-iron excuse to abort the visit ) the engine fired . |
| 9 | She saw his eyes flick over her neatly fitting cotton lace blouse and down to her hip-hugging velvet culottes . |
| 10 | She strolled by some quite lovely nineteenth-century architecture — charming four-storeyed buildings of white , of yellow , of yellow and white , and red-roofed , green-roofed , immaculately lawned — and down to her hotel . |
| 11 | Picking up her skirts , she hurried out and along to her mother 's room . |
| 12 | My mother softened at once at the words ‘ Do you remember … ? ’ when they referred to her youth and not to her knowledge . |
| 13 | ‘ You know you love it , ’ said Scarlet , who was referring to Constance 's single state and not to her lover . |
| 14 | Simon Draper took to calling her ‘ She who must be obeyed ’ — if not to her face . |
| 15 | It was there that they went each summer , in Shiva 's holidays , their fares paid by Sabine Schnitzler who , having reverted to her maiden name and largely to her native tongue , sometimes wore a surprised , even bewildered , look at being surrounded , as she put it , by ‘ all those Indians ’ . |
| 16 | And she led them inside her house and through to her kitchen . |
| 17 | However , he also thought she might have been trying to demonstrate the extent of her distress to her family and possibly to her husband . |
| 18 | ‘ Over the edge with the stiff , back to the house and off to her appointment . |
| 19 | She ran from the room and up to her bedroom where the windows were kept open all day to destroy the germs . |
| 20 | So saying she ran from the kitchen and up to her bedroom , leaving those round the table confused and upset . |
| 21 | A third was made with such force it went through her stomach and up to her heart . |
| 22 | Ten weeks later , the ambulance team that had driven Elinor from the Nice hospital carried her into the château and up to her bedroom . |
| 23 | She ran to the house and up to her room , the swimsuit forgotten , and she shut the door tightly . |
| 24 | With a little nod , she hurried inside and up to her room . |
| 25 | This was due partly to her hats and partly to her remarkable prowess as a lady cricketer . |
| 26 | Only the crazy British could send such a lovely young woman on such a wild goose chase , and probably to her death . |
| 27 | Her therapist had suggested that she should speak more fully and openly to her husband , but an ancient , instinctive residue of wisdom had told Scarlet that this would be inadvisable : she had not gone through any process of transference , did not therefore regard her therapist as omnipotent , and so her suspicion that she was wasting money on her treatment was not unfounded . |
| 28 | Her hair fell thick and straight to her square shoulders ; it was a shade too dark to be fairly termed blonde , but Victoria 's canon of style rejected tinting — or at least , tinting which could be recognised as such . |
| 29 | His blue gaze went from her face to the basket with its bundles and the white swaddled decanter , and back to her face again . |
| 30 | The wind came cold and fast to her face . |