Example sentences of "[verb] to her the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 2 | Try to make her understand how other people feel by putting herself in their shoes ; by that , I do n't mean hitting her over the head yourself , but explaining to her the pain of the other child when she hit him . |
| 3 | According to her the material objects of the world provide the common source of that knowledge . |
| 4 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 5 | She made no pretence of great musical knowledge and I had the satisfaction of describing to her the plot of L'Elisir d'Amore when no one else present in the Covent Garden box could remember it . |
| 6 | His honest suffering reveals to her the nobility of selfless love and the truth of language which is metaphoric yet direct . |
| 7 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 8 | That announcement to W. could , in my judgment , only serve to underline to her the extent to which she is in control . |
| 9 | He misrepresented to her the purpose of the advance . |
| 10 | Second , she contended that her husband misrepresented to her the effect of the legal charge . |
| 11 | He had cultivated Marcel Mauss , Durkheim 's nephew , so that he could personally convey to her the importance of understanding the springs of human action . |
| 12 | I passed to her the wisdom I picked up eavesdropping on our two eldest sisters , whose lives were then lived in romantic turmoil . |
| 13 | It was explained to her the day they moved in . ’ |
| 14 | He was concerned with the sale and exchange of fiefs and the preservation of the comital domain : there is some evidence that , like the Recognicionesfeodorum of 1273–5 in Gascony , measures intended to clarify and even reform the feudal structure of the comté were initiated under Edward I. In a letter dated 5 June 1285 Edward and Eleanor confirmed a grant by Gerard d'Abbeville , lord of Mons-Bouberc , in which he assigned to her the payment of an annual rent on his property at Abbeville . |
| 15 | The flute faltered , the flute player stepped aside and indicated to her the place between himself and the hollow-cheeked man with the guitar . |
| 16 | And do you know what her mother said to her the night before her wedding ? |
| 17 | So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her |
| 18 | To turn the knife in the wound , he had mentioned to her the name of a local pub that had refused her singing act . |