Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to her [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By the time she reached the bottom the dragon had vanished , but this , far from mattering , only added to her amusement . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was no way they could avoid touching , and it only added to her torment of mind and spirit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She has to put her life back in order to rid her of Fred whose antics are only adding to her problems . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I know what you mean , doctor , and no ; no , he has n't , but- ’ She suddenly sprang to her feet and was standing rigid . |
| 21 | She cleared her throat , then to her dismay tears suddenly sprang to her eyes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was difficult to think of any animal less suited to her personality . |
| 24 | Rincewind hurriedly recalled that a dryad was so linked to her tree that she suffered wounds in sympathy |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Anna only went to her meetings if she was accompanied , and never after dark because she trusted no-one else to guard the children . |
| 27 | If the truth were known , he had only acceded to her wishes because it took him away from her , allowing him access to libraries , bookshops and students of all races and creeds — many of them Irish . |
| 28 | This last question was apparently directed to her watch , which she was studying as she checked his pulse . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She transfers her affections , hitherto directed to her mother who has cared for her so far in life , on to her father . |