Example sentences of "[adj] to her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be heartless to deny her the pleasure of feeling that she is making a useful contribution to the preparation of meals , but it would be equally unkind not to make it clear to her from the beginning just who will be in charge and wearing the chef 's hat ! |
| 2 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |
| 3 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 4 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 5 | It was obvious to her from the beginning that there was too much overlap . |
| 6 | And perhaps most important of all was her ability to take whatever was sustaining and useful to her in the mid-nineteenth century 's version of ‘ womanliness ’ and ‘ domesticity ’ and to reject those elements which stifled , maimed and , sometimes literally , maddened other women . |
| 7 | Congenial or not , the truth had been made evident to her in the spread . |
| 8 | He had therefore decided to be as charming as possible to her during the summer holiday in Italy — as soon as he had managed to persuade her to let him join the family there . |
| 9 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 10 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 11 | She had not known what to expect from this side of marriage since there was no literature available to her on the subject and her mother had told her nothing . |
| 12 | If inflationary pressures began to mount in Britain there would be no ‘ soft option ’ or ‘ quick fix ’ available to her in the form of devaluing her way out of trouble . |
| 13 | The early history was familiar to her from the memoir of the founder which stood in limp green leather covers on Gilbert Racy 's shelves at Betterhouse . |
| 14 | She smiled nervously at Sergeant Phyllis Henley , who had been kind to her at the time of their parents ' ungainly departure from life , but uncompromising . |
| 15 | They were kind to her in the shops . |
| 16 | She has told you that I was kind to her in the summerhouse , though I 'll assure you I was quite innocent then as now , and I desire you to keep this matter to yourself . |
| 17 | Agnes actually put her hands over her ears as she looked at Jessie sitting close to her on the edge of the bed . |
| 18 | I walked back into the lounge and said , ‘ You clever girl ’ to Sally and sat close to her on the wide sofa . |