Example sentences of "[vb past] to her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bhutto 's confrontation with rival governments in the provinces , particularly Punjab [ see pp. 36525 ; 37204 ] ; her differences with Muslim fundamentalist parties [ see p. 36525 ] and her uneasy relationship with the President [ see p. 37203 ] , also contributed to her political demise . |
| 2 | But Arnold seems unaware of the strain that Jellett must have borne specifically as a woman artist , and one can not help but wonder if this contributed to her early death . |
| 3 | A fireman and his girlfriend are tonight engaged after he proposed to her forty feet off the ground . |
| 4 | As it stands , this organisation does not make clear how the parts relate to each other , what the development is , or even what the point is of some of the parts ( why should there be a special section devoted to her final novel but not the others , for example ? ) . |
| 5 | Great Britain is the richest empire on the globe : she has one imperial metropolis , and one small quarter of the general capital devoted to her public offices ; if , therefore , there are any ten acres on the globe that ought to be covered with externally imposing and conveniently constructed public edifices , they are those adjoining Whitehall . |
| 6 | SCOTTISH champion Emma Donaldson , who rose to her highest world ranking of 39 last week , has now set her sights on the Far East in a bid to make further progress , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 7 | Susan , believing her friend had suffered some form of miscarriage , shouted to her returning husband to fetch medical help . |
| 8 | Shakespeare referred to her three-fold nature in A Midsummer Night 's Dream : |
| 9 | With uncanny certainty , Theda knew that Lady Merchiston referred to her own words . |
| 10 | She referred to her own family : parents , brother and sisters who all spoke English at home . |
| 11 | Erasmus Darwin referred to her domestic powers in his Loves of the Plants ( 1789 ) : |
| 12 | It referred to her earlier pregnancy termination as a reason for her wanting to go away — yet Mark would have known nothing about it , said the prosecution . |
| 13 | But when nobody was there she changed to her normal self again . |
| 14 | How old was the female when she changed to her male coloration ? |
| 15 | I regarded her thin obstinate face and knew she believed to her determined soul in what she said . |
| 16 | When she was attacked by her venerable predecessor Harold Macmillan ( now elevated to the Lords as the Earl of Stockton ) for ‘ selling off the family silver ’ , it added to her proud sense of detachment . |
| 17 | Rose Briant added to her previous achievements by producing the show . |
| 18 | ‘ Not that they 're not already , ’ she added to her previous remark . |
| 19 | McAllister 's perfect manners , running in tandem with her fiery , impulsive nature , made a mix which had begun to amuse him , and added to her disturbing charm . |
| 20 | She named Beatrice after one of Victoria 's daughters and a previous book , Victoria And Albert , alluded to her spiritual closeness with her estranged husband 's ancestor . |
| 21 | Mungo appealed to her good sense . |
| 22 | By this time she was consciously beginning to play the role that most appealed to her ironic sense of self-awareness : the rather eccentric and certainly unorthodox grand old lady of her native Swansea , whose celebrated love of a good cigar , smoked in public , was matched at a less superficial level by deep attachment to the uncompromising principles instilled into her by her Quaker family background . |
| 23 | She relaxed : being the centre of attention appealed to her exhibitionism , and being stuffed by the giant wedge appealed to her newfound masochism . |
| 24 | Other kindred spirits were self-made gentiles , like Norman Tebbit , Cecil Parkinson or John Major , whose capacity to drag themselves up by their bootstraps appealed to her Methodist conscience . |
| 25 | Liz came to her first CPS on Saturday since Christmas . |
| 26 | When it came to her last day at home , she had gone out into the garden for a final look round . |
| 27 | So far natural selection had kept the group small enough to be manageable ; usually it was filled from among those who came to her monthly entertainments . |
| 28 | Her tongue protruded , flopped to her left side from between well-shaped lips . |
| 29 | Margaret Irwin cited it as another process from which women were excluded for what seemed to her good reason : " It requires both muscular strength and a certain " knack " . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was n't as cold as it seemed to her distorted senses . |