Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [be] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , her letter has given me extra cause to continue thinking of her as ‘ Miss Kenton ’ , since it would seem , sadly , that her marriage is finally to come to an end . |
| 2 | Her desire was never to see or speak to Ellen again but of course she could not allow herself such a luxurious vengeance . |
| 3 | Her wish is now to have a baby from him , the baby becoming the substitute for the penis . |
| 4 | Her role is simply to assist union members in taking certain specified types of legal action against their trade union . |
| 5 | Convinced that the dynasty was lost , she felt that her duty was now to do everything in her power to save the country . |
| 6 | But that hardly troubled Miss Hazelwood , for her salary was there to squander ; to lash out on the soap and a hundred perfumes , satins and silks and frilly things . |
| 7 | Official efforts to protect the cultivator against an oppressive lord went back at least as far as legislation by the Emperor Leopold I in 1680 ; and in many ways Maria Theresa showed a truer concern for her peasant subjects than her son was ever to do . |