Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing a tight sort of dress in shiny , slippery silk , which looked as if it had been painted on to her body . |
| 2 | Stripped down to her petticoat , she felt too tired to undress further . |
| 3 | The Arab girl rolled on to her back to balance on her shoulders , her legs spread wide with her feet pointing towards the ceiling . |
| 4 | She clutched again and again at her stomach with her crossed arms , then rolled on to her side and lay moaning , her face contorted with pain . |
| 5 | The straw ‘ hat ’ was put on the tray once again , a maid was called and the tray lifted on to her head . |
| 6 | Made awkward by his amused scrutiny , she tilted the roll too much and a blob of jam dropped on to her chest between her breasts . |
| 7 | His head dropped on to her breast . |
| 8 | ’ And as he and Kraal continued to talk old Minch quietly dropped down to her shelter and took up the food there , listening to their few memories of the world outside . |
| 9 | Rather more in line with British cinema 's future disdain for anyone outside the middle classes is Williamson 's Two Little Waifs ( 1905 ) , in which two adult gypsies are left to the flames while their daughter is carried off to her convalescence in a suburban garden . |
| 10 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 11 | She was quite the most attractive thing in the café now that the colour had come back to her face and she had regained her normal cheerful manner . |
| 12 | She turned her head a little , and he saw that the calm had come back to her face , but now there was light and colour in it , as if the blood curbed and slowed to solitude and stillness had begun to flow again . |
| 13 | With the old keys Charley had penetrated even to her bedroom . |
| 14 | So far from convincing Karen she was wrong , by the Sunday afternoon I had come round to her point of view . |
| 15 | It was nice to think he had looked forward to her company . |
| 16 | She was present at the birth of the Blessed Virgin , who was then given over to her care for twelve years , and at the Visitation and the birth of St John the Baptist and even at the birth of the Saviour , when she was allowed to provide bedding for the Virgin and swathing-clothes for the Child . |
| 17 | It 's gotten on to her land and off her land and into the ditch , which is you know the N R A |
| 18 | By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie . |
| 19 | She was turned on to her stomach and handcuffs and thumbcuffs were applied to her , ’ Mr Williams added . |
| 20 | Her father 's anguish , as he 'd shouted those words at her mother , had pierced her to the quick , her mother 's shushing noises hardly heard as she 'd crept away to her room to hide . |
| 21 | In another instance , a Portsmouth docker 's daughter had grown close to her grandmother through helping her go out to shop or visit , or just sitting with her — ‘ her and I were never separated . ’ |
| 22 | The hand on her back had crept up to her neck , sending squiggles of sensation from her scalp to her toes . |
| 23 | And yet she was aware of something lovely somewhere , something that was gone , or hidden , or yet to be attained : she supposed her therapist would say that this unrealistic shard of broken vision dated back to her infancy , when the human animal believes itself to be omnipotent , immortal and an integral part of all that is . |
| 24 | The pain began , slowly at first , then , as though the knife-blade had been turned back to her heart by his subtle withdrawal from her , it began to enter her heart ; and then it began to revolve . |
| 25 | Since her father 's death she had written regularly to her grandfather , but there had been no word in reply from Hester . |
| 26 | Elinor listened carefully as Buzz leaned close to her ear and outlined her plan . |
| 27 | Instead of all the new controls being policed by the National Rivers Authority some of the responsibility was being handed over to Her Majesty 's Inpsector of Pollution , with decisions being taken by the Department of Environment . |
| 28 | Florence W. , aged four , was to be handed over to her father as soon as he was discharged from prison . |
| 29 | He 'd be thrown when she turned up , looking keen and eager , demanding to be shown instantly to her desk . |
| 30 | He gasped , winded , and she twisted off him quickly and sat up , legs drawn up to her chest , chewing her wet knee . |