Example sentences of "[to-vb] 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 | Not only her own people but other people used to come to her for advice … |
| 4 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 5 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In a way she was happy that Harry had chosen to come to her in his distress , yet it highlighted his attitude towards her . |
| 9 | Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again . |
| 10 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 11 | And , perhaps , since he was not blinded by love after all , he might be prepared to listen to her for once ! |
| 12 | Mother needed to be reassured that it would be all right to stop putting a nappy on Susan and to talk to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in the lavatory . |
| 13 | Mr Bradley called her miss , and even the local doctor called her Miss McCafferty whenever he had reason to talk to her about her charges . |
| 14 | I used to talk to her about it . |
| 15 | Stephen had never been able to talk to her about her relationship with the great novelist . |
| 16 | Marie yelled after me to wait but I did n't want to talk to her about it so I chucked my sandwich-box over to her and told her she could eat them for me . |
| 17 | Diane 's gon na go but I have n't had a chance to talk to her about it yet , again . |
| 18 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 19 | But Worcester police want to talk to her about the withdrawal of £130,000 from funds . |
| 20 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 21 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 22 | ‘ Annunziata , are you all right ? ’ asked Julia when the question of dinner was settled , relieved to be able to talk to her at last with reasonable fluency . |
| 23 | He looked for her and came to talk to her at every possible moment , at milking , butter-making , cheese-making , among chickens and among pigs . |
| 24 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 25 | How had Keith dared to talk to her like that ? |
| 26 | To show this was not true , I began to talk to her in an animated way , and she was attentive , encouraging me with questions . |
| 27 | Usually he never bothered to talk to her in bed , but this was what real lovers did , told each other their fears and worries , confided in each other , helped each other . |
| 28 | He used to talk to her in English with an Italian accent . |
| 29 | What was he going to do to her for running away ? |
| 30 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |