Example sentences of "to her [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morse held up his right hand , and spoke to her not ungently : |
| 2 | During the special day of Saraswati — goddess of wisdom and the arts — offerings are now made to her not only on our neighbour 's canvases and paint brushes , but also on our typewriters , cameras , and tape-recorders . |
| 3 | A woman who wanted a divorce because her husband made love to her not very often and not very well did n't get it . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to speak to her right now . ’ |
| 5 | She looked to her right once again , savoured Manhattan outlined against the afternoon sky . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't believe it ! ’ he cried , but held on to her firmly so that she had a very concrete impression that , if it happened that it was the truth , he had no intention of letting her go , not now . |
| 7 | Pity she was n't a feminist we 'd have got to her easily enough . ’ |
| 8 | He went to her straight away ; the mood Rose was in he would get more out of her , and the mood he was in he wanted it . |
| 9 | According to Celac , Elena came to dominate her husband as he grew older , though he attributes her authority as much to her marginally more elevated social origins as to her sex . |
| 10 | He was the man on the Flamingo , the one who had explained to her why so many ships lay at anchor . |
| 11 | What a long shadow he cast , reaching out to her even here ! |
| 12 | Having spent himself , he had still found the will and strength to move away after he had withdrawn from her , so that they lay without touching , the space between them painfully eloquent , the gleaming coppery curve of the shoulder that he presented to her even more hurtful . |
| 13 | While Gemma , who had never thought very much about it , her own education having come to her just as easily and plentifully as soap and hot water and extremely private sanitary arrangements , had found it something to think about now , when any new thought would have been welcome . |
| 14 | It came to her later , as she started to do her homework , that Racine and Corneille appealed to her so strongly because their ways were hers . |
| 15 | Was it only Friday when she 'd first set eyes on those features that appealed to her so strongly ? |
| 16 | In her heart of hearts she still suspected that it was , but the charmed garden of Sebastian and his friends opened to her so easily , so seductively , that what could she do but step inside ? |
| 17 | She did not know why she should feel such fear , because she felt for her mother not respect , but contempt : and why should she lack courage before someone whose attitudes were to her so transparently , pettily contemptible ? |
| 18 | She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly . |
| 19 | How dared he speak to her so insultingly ? |
| 20 | It clung to her so tightly that she wore no underwear beneath . |
| 21 | At this vow , which he had repeated to her so often it was beginning to sound like a mantra , Ashley frowned . |
| 22 | Only Judi could get to her so quickly , and only this discussion could push her over the edge . |
| 23 | It came to her now just how little she knew about him — much less than he knew about her life , which was to a great extent an open book , despite his determination to believe she had a dark side . |
| 24 | Yet the names had come back to her quite easily : Birkleigh , Thorn House . |
| 25 | At the funeral ( she had never been to a funeral before ) it had come to her quite suddenly that something was ending in herself , that she was being challenged to take hold of her life , to make decisions , and she had quarrelled with Terry because of it . |
| 26 | I talk to her quite often , so I 'll have to start dropping hints about tickets . |
| 27 | What was more , she had an idea that he must feel the same , because he in his turn talked to her quite naturally , without the slightest attempt to entertain or amuse her . |
| 28 | That was indeed something that she knew all too well , but she was n't particularly flattered to have it spelt out to her quite so categorically . |
| 29 | He 'd spoken to her often enough . |
| 30 | It did not seem to her always so light-hearted . |