Example sentences of "[vb pp] to her [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The word of Jesus had come to her as a great challenge . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Since her inheritance , ten years ago , all her pleasures and hopes and excitements had come to her in such small parcels . |
6 | His words had come to her in snatches , barely audible . " |
7 | He had come to her in the night . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The wicked mood of triumphant secret freedom which had come to her after her first performance of careful deliberate lying to Jack had , for the moment at any rate , left her . |
11 | Somehow she 'd still hoped against hope that Ace might have come to her after all . |
12 | The important thing , the only thing that really mattered to her in those tense and anxious moments , was to reach and be united with Edward … |
13 | ‘ I say , does your Dad really vote Labour ? ’ had been one of the politer questions addressed to her at elections and other periods of heightened political interest . |
14 | At Chester in England in October 1807 she spent two days editing a slim volume of letters addressed to her by ‘ Several Africans and Indians ’ , including a black bishop , proto-feminist Indian women , and a convicted felon . |
15 | She riffled quickly through the pile and saw nothing of interest but an envelope addressed to her in a bold black hand that looked dimly familiar . |
16 | As she went to answer she noticed a white envelope addressed to her in Luke 's handwriting lying on the doormat . |
17 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
18 | Unless the tenant here was a statutorily protected tenant , as the premises were not let to her on an excluded tenancy she is entitled to the benefit of that protection . |
19 | A framed certificate was presented to her at the Good Companions ' meeting last week by chairman Janet Gill . |
20 | the prize of £1000 and a silver cup was presented to her at the college by Chief Executive , Best Western Hotels . |
21 | She also asked for those who were unable to attend the AGM to be thanked for the lovely watch presented to her at the end of her term as Chairman . |
22 | Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members . |
23 | Like Hannah she is angry at the ideal presented to her by the advertising world , as she feels it has nothing to do with her , yet still has the power to make her feel dissatisfied . |
24 | " See you , " said Alice , and turned away from the girl and went in , feeling that the 556 — at least — young couples with their spotty , frustrated infants had been presented to her by Fate , as her responsibility . |
25 | Financially astute , Alice cultivated people like the financier , Sir Ernest Cassel [ q.v. ] , and is said to have realized a considerable sum by the sale of certain rubber shares presented to her by her royal lover . |
26 | She left with the best wishes of all her colleagues — plus a colour TV which was presented to her by Tom Gorrie , Manager , Taurus . |
27 | The cheque was presented to her by Ian Sutherland , Director , Commercial Banking Services . |
28 | JANET Broadbent with the marketing award certificate presented to her by The Catering Guild . |
29 | Isobel 's clock was presented to her by Bill Service , Personnel Manager , and is inscribed with ‘ Twenty Five Years Service Douglas Reyburn & Co . |
30 | On coming upstairs , he had turned to her for comfort , desperate to make love , needing to feel the growing swell of her body that was his own flesh and blood and , as always , he was moved to tears by it . |