Example sentences of "[verb] to her by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile Sue has recently accepted a series of temporary secretarial posts offered to her by other companies . |
| 2 | If a little girl can not feel herself able to win the heart of her father , her own father who has known her so well and so long , and is tied to her by mutual blood-ties , I reasoned , then how can the young woman who comes later have any deep confidence in the power of her womanliness . |
| 3 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 4 | He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife . |
| 5 | The most vivid memory I have of that Christmas Day is of Shanti , now almost two years old , walking round and round the long dining-room table , pulling a little toy engine given to her by one of the boys , round and round , smiling and smiling . |
| 6 | A Mary Queen of Scots coin was given to her by well-wisher Jessie Brown , 40 , of South Carntyne , Glasgow . |
| 7 | Maybe , she thought bitterly , if she had asked a few questions she might have uncovered the truth about him for herself , instead of having the information relayed to her by one of her friends . |
| 8 | It was still possible that the undertaker had been visiting Laura Passmore on the evening he disappeared , but why go to her by such a roundabout way ? |
| 9 | They were still there , attached to her by unbreakable strings , but at least they retreated enough for her to have a breathing-space in which to resolve them . |