Example sentences of "to her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She also asked for those who were unable to attend the AGM to be thanked for the lovely watch presented to her at the end of her term as Chairman . |
| 32 | Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members . |
| 33 | No , he 'd have given it to her at the hospital . |
| 34 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 35 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 36 | I did n't even know them who , who lived next door to her at the side of . |
| 37 | Lightness and truth came to her with the wind 's speed . |
| 38 | I used to dream that , one day , I would come to her with the girl I was going to marry . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ The Blood of Christ , ’ Peter said softly , stooping to her with the chalice . |
| 40 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 41 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 42 | The masks spoke to her with the voice of the past . |
| 43 | One night , Cindy , her friend , spoke to her of the cross of Jesus and said : ‘ He was paralysed too . ’ |
| 44 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 45 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |
| 46 | She lied to her father on the day of her escape when Lancelot says to her of the escape — Act 2 , Scene 5 , line 39–41 : |
| 47 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 48 | I did n't speak to her for the rest of the day , of course , and this made her laugh , I do n't know why . |
| 49 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 50 | We kissed goodnight , and I again apologised to her for the fright she had . |
| 51 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |
| 52 | Unusually , no blame is attached to her for the outcome . |
| 53 | ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’ |
| 54 | Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before . |
| 55 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 56 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 57 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 58 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 59 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 60 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |