Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The kindness and generosity of the owners has been especially welcomed by one of the readers who is mostly confined to her home . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Celia constantly refers to her mother 's drowning accident . |
| 5 | She 'll need me some day and then she 'll be quick enough to write to her mother . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By the time she reached the bottom the dragon had vanished , but this , far from mattering , only added to her amusement . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was no way they could avoid touching , and it only added to her torment of mind and spirit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was difficult to think of any animal less suited to her personality . |
| 18 | Rincewind hurriedly recalled that a dryad was so linked to her tree that she suffered wounds in sympathy |
| 19 | This last question was apparently directed to her watch , which she was studying as she checked his pulse . |
| 20 | In a cloak and dagger operation , he got in touch and insisted he could only come to her shop when there would be no other customers around . |
| 21 | She transfers her affections , hitherto directed to her mother who has cared for her so far in life , on to her father . |
| 22 | A new baby would only add to her workload . |
| 23 | ‘ The latest events you describe can only add to her unhappiness . |
| 24 | You seem to forget that I 'll be leaving this place as soon as Stella is well enough to return to her job . |
| 25 | Yeah , she ca n't obviously talk to her husband about it because George is her ex-husband and he |
| 26 | She was determined that it was n't he who had affected her appetite either , and went down to dinner that night and ate quite a substantial meal , only to return to her room and spend the next hour again having trouble ousting the wretched man . |
| 27 | She had not long returned to her room however , when her telephone rang , and when she answered it the sun came out . |
| 28 | On 3 January , Eliza sat down to reply to her mother : |
| 29 | Frau Nordern was free when Erika finally penetrated to her room , sitting at her desk behind a mound of reports . |
| 30 | Later she wondered if he was counting on her not sticking to her resolution . |