Example sentences of "had [verb] to her [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 2 | The task of organizing her grandmother 's funeral had fallen to her a couple of years before and , although the present situation was bound to be more complicated , she had a fair idea of the steps Veronica would need to take . |
| 3 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 4 | But she did let slip that she had to curtsey to her every day and say : ‘ Good morning Your Highness . ’ |
| 5 | The future , which once had seemed to her a long , grassy vista into distant sunlight , was now a black impenetrable vapour , blowing towards her menacingly , like some poisonous gas , and threatening to envelop her . |
| 6 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 7 | I had to convey to her a slight warning , though … ’ |
| 8 | They travelled extensively , but he had to pander to her every whim . |
| 9 | Surkov had quoted to her a poem by Zbigniew Herbert , and she 'd said this helped her to understand Poland more than anything else . |
| 10 | To turn the knife in the wound , he had mentioned to her the name of a local pub that had refused her singing act . |