Example sentences of "[vb past] to her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 2 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 3 | It was he who after a particularly violent disagreement , suggested that Joan should be invited to pay them another visit — though he referred to her as the lady Anne , as had been agreed . |
| 4 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 5 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 6 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 7 | It never occurred to her until the Sunday evening that it might have been herself . |
| 8 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 9 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 10 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 11 | It was an insight which came to her on the spur of the moment . |
| 12 | Lightness and truth came to her with the wind 's speed . |
| 13 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 14 | Picasso 's grand-daughter , Marina , is selling forty-eight of his works which came to her in the share-out among the family of his estate , and which are normally kept at the Geneva freeport warehouse . |
| 15 | It seemed to her like the anus of the entire factory : a black tunnel that extruded the castings , still encased in black sand , like hot , reeking , iron turds , on to a metal grid that vibrated violently and continuously to shake off the sand . |
| 16 | He seemed to her like the kind of man who loved to provoke reaction . |
| 17 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 18 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |
| 19 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |
| 20 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 21 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 22 | Fernando turned to her from the fridge where he was taking out a bottle of wine . |
| 23 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
| 24 | But Edouard lied to her about the reason for the attack . ’ |
| 25 | Nevertheless when the Sun story appeared he talked to her on the phone for an hour , her in tears . |
| 26 | ‘ I talked to her through the door . |
| 27 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 28 | He talked to her about the play , the characters . |
| 29 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 30 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |