Example sentences of "[vb past] to her [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When all else failed , or it simply appealed to her a woman could always turn to the ranks for employment . |
| 2 | As she read on , day after day , often by candlelight , through St Matthew and St Mark and on to St Luke and St John it seemed to her a message was reaching her and that message was that she must face her own wickedness . |
| 3 | Staring through the streaming window , Nell gritted her teeth every time the bows pushed out over the top of a big wave , only to hang in space before dropping away into the sixty-odd feet of the following trough that seemed to her a mile deep . |
| 4 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 5 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 6 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 7 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 8 | He handed to her a copy of A Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man . |
| 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 | I passed to her the wisdom I picked up eavesdropping on our two eldest sisters , whose lives were then lived in romantic turmoil . |
| 12 | Laughing and relieved , Cissie clung to her a moment longer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But of course we were you know crossing our fingers and she went to her every time . |
| 15 | His once quiet , undemanding ease now felt to her a lack of response , a rejecting casual indifference . |
| 16 | Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there . |
| 17 | And do you know what her mother said to her the night before her wedding ? |
| 18 | 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 |