Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] 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 | There was no way they could avoid touching , and it only added to her torment of mind and spirit . |
| 3 | Frau Nordern was free when Erika finally penetrated to her room , sitting at her desk behind a mound of reports . |
| 4 | She joined in the training sessions , but soon found to her chagrin that in the personal fitness stakes he left her standing . |
| 5 | In some indefinable way he just added to her restlessness . |
| 6 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 7 | This was the only complaint she ever made to her husband . |
| 8 | Matthew concentrating on the steak , seemed impervious and never once rose to her bait , but James , it was clear , was cheered and encouraged by Jenny 's affectionate treatment . |
| 9 | Finally she made her choice and gave the reasons for it with the confidence she always brought to her work . |
| 10 | It still survives ( 1990 ) , but St Margaret 's chapel in Harwood Dale , which Hoby also built to her memory , is in ruins . |
| 11 | She also referred to her mother in a slightly dismissive way in the course of two reported interviews . |
| 12 | Charles later saw to her commemoration at thirteen other churches too . |
| 13 | And Madame Dietrich describes this in a letter which she later wrote to her brother . |
| 14 | She also wrote to her brother , whom she had mostly but not altogether forgiven for his betrayal of her to her mother . |
| 15 | Lady Selvedge , she now realised to her surprise , was wearing low-heeled walking shoes , not really quite the thing with her elaborately draped velvet toque but eminently sensible . |
| 16 | She firmly corrected those , including myself , who unwittingly referred to her book as A View from the Harbour . |
| 17 | Not that Luke needed any sartorial props ; he was just naturally sensuously exciting as she had always suspected , and now knew to her cost . |
| 18 | Now yoked to her bib , a baby crawls |
| 19 | ‘ That 's how I spent the best years of my life , ’ she often said to her son . |
| 20 | Recently seen opposite Warren Beatty in the title role of the re-released Lilith as a mentally ill girl suffering from ‘ nymphomania ’ , Seberg was hounded by an FBI dirty tricks campaign after her vocal support for the Black Panthers movement , which reportedly led to her suicide in 1979 . |
| 21 | FitzAlan 's gaze immediately flashed to her mouth , his eyes darkening so abruptly that Isabel 's knees went weak . |
| 22 | Her housemates then came to her aid . |
| 23 | She looked petrified , but was blindly obeying the social workers , and silently appealed to her mother to help her . |
| 24 | ‘ I worked through the night to get them done and then drove to her house where she was confined to bed , ’ says Alan . |
| 25 | She then signed to her husband and Susan to leave the room . |
| 26 | She shut the door gently then went to her daughter 's room . |
| 27 | She had a mince pie with her tea , then went to her bedroom and changed from her shop uniform of a black alpaca dress and white apron into a grey jersey-wool dress , then she went downstairs again . |
| 28 | Soon Maggie held a golden ball of thread and St Margaret had one end of it firmly attached to her finger . |
| 29 | Poor Hugh never came to her mind at all . |
| 30 | George Felix was surely in a rage , but he was also enjoying being angry , and that was something that never happened to her father , whose rages had made anger such a familiar monster . |