Example sentences of "to her [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also made him promise the usual things like writing to her every day and keeping warm . |
| 2 | In Mozart 's opera The Magic Flute , there is a Queen of the Night , a sinister but magnificent figure , who demands that birds be caught and brought to her every day . |
| 3 | But she did let slip that she had to curtsey to her every day and say : ‘ Good morning Your Highness . ’ |
| 4 | It is brought home to her every day in the person of her husband , a television documentary director . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | He kissed her then , his mouth warm and sensitive to her every response , and when she put her arms around his neck he gave a hoarse inhalation of breath , his arms tightening around hers , and the kiss took fire , grew passionate , their bodies pressing together , harder , harder … |
| 7 | They travelled extensively , but he had to pander to her every whim . |
| 8 | He said that to her every night she went up behind Pet , and every night she promised she would n't . |
| 9 | But of course we were you know crossing our fingers and she went to her every time . |
| 10 | Staring through the streaming window , Nell gritted her teeth every time the bows pushed out over the top of a big wave , only to hang in space before dropping away into the sixty-odd feet of the following trough that seemed to her a mile deep . |
| 11 | Well — if she had taken kindlier to her a year ago , we might have been wed by now , and I would have escaped the list . ’ |
| 12 | His once quiet , undemanding ease now felt to her a lack of response , a rejecting casual indifference . |
| 13 | I asked the governor whether I could have a visit in the probation department so that Karen did n't have to see me in the gym with everyone else and I could talk to her a bit more intimately . |
| 14 | But Mother was rather poorly this morning , and I wondered if I might skip 2B English and just rush home and see to her a bit . ’ |
| 15 | Surkov had quoted to her a poem by Zbigniew Herbert , and she 'd said this helped her to understand Poland more than anything else . |
| 16 | ( Except for my voice , restoring to her a fragment of her own inheritance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As she read on , day after day , often by candlelight , through St Matthew and St Mark and on to St Luke and St John it seemed to her a message was reaching her and that message was that she must face her own wickedness . |
| 19 | He handed to her a copy of A Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man . |
| 20 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 21 | When all else failed , or it simply appealed to her a woman could always turn to the ranks for employment . |
| 22 | Christine , who had gained the Brownie Highway Badge , was an excellent writer and reader , and she felt rather grown-up as she wrote out notes for Miss Miggs or carefully read out to her a letter from her nephew . |
| 23 | Laughing and relieved , Cissie clung to her a moment longer . |
| 24 | Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there . |
| 25 | Despite his physical antipathy , Mozart wrote a sonata for two pianos ( rather than a duet sonata for one keyboard ! ) for himself and Josepha to play , and dedicated to her a set of six sonatas for piano and violin which was published by the prestigious Viennese firm of Artaria in November , 1781 . |
| 26 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 27 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 28 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 29 | Rachaela said , ‘ If I could see that , Emma , I 'd cling on to her the way you do . |
| 30 | To turn the knife in the wound , he had mentioned to her the name of a local pub that had refused her singing act . |