Example sentences of "to her the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took breakfast to her the following morning . |
| 2 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 3 | She tried to get , she 's tried to get started making , doing her own business , spoke to her the other day and she 's , well , Pat spoke to her on Sunday and she got more out of her than I did |
| 4 | I mean she does n't does n't see a lot of her erm you know and but she and she was talking to her the other day because she does n't like to get involved or say a lot but |
| 5 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 6 | He offered an as yo as you read it there in the opening of chapter two , he offered her drink , at meal times she was to eat the food provided for Boaz servants he gave to her the extra portion of parched corn and also he provided extra gleaning for her . |
| 7 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
| 8 | Northam was to her the very image of unfertile ground , and yet other people lived there and stayed there when they had money in the bank and legs to walk away on . |
| 9 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 10 | She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home . |
| 11 | And it seemed to her that that broken line , I know not , oh , I know not " , expressed a level of passion as high as any the English language could achieve ; the interjection and the repetition and the archaic inversion were to her the exhaled breath of yearning . |
| 12 | Sabine 's eyes narrowed , and he laughed suddenly , his whole face changing , bringing home to her the full force of his considerable attraction . |
| 13 | To her the meek and bold . |
| 14 | Before they left I could not forbear to draw Gillian closer and impart to her the glittering counsel that wearing 501s with trainers was frankly un désastre and that I was amazed she had walked the streets to my apartment in broad daylight and escaped pillory . |
| 15 | He tries to convey to her the vital importance that their complex relationship has to him as a counterpoint to his work on the New Jerusalem . |
| 16 | The minute she set eyes on him , she seemed to take leave of her senses — and he 's been playing up to her the whole time . |
| 17 | She knew how to win that competition , too : when he reached through to her the fourth or fifth time , she did what she had often dreamt of doing before : kneeling up against the wall , she guided his hand and put it to her breast . |
| 18 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Anyway the woman in the bus saw his picture in this evening 's paper , told the local bobby and gave him the boy 's uncle 's address which the lad had passed on to her the previous evening . |
| 21 | She recalled the housekeeper 's kindness to her the previous evening , when she had led her from her mistress 's chamber and shown her the room that Miss Merchiston had assigned for her use . |
| 22 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 23 | But he had been very kind to her the past few weeks , and she knew he was right , that the showing would be a fiasco if it went on this way . |