Example sentences of "to her by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SONIA SUTCLIFFE , who was awarded £600,000 in libel damages against Private Eye , gave a ‘ misleading ’ answer in court when she was questioned about a £25,000 loan given to her by a friend , it was alleged in the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 2 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 3 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 4 | Madame Bovary has a dog , given to her by a game-keeper whose chest infection has been cured by her husband . |
| 5 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 6 | Once it is forgotten again , she resumes her work in the spartan room allocated to her by a local co-op . |
| 7 | The friend was a newspaper reporter and the money was in fact paid to her by The Mail on Sunday , Gavin Lightman QC , representing the magazine in an appeal for a new trial , said . |
| 8 | Like Hannah she is angry at the ideal presented to her by the advertising world , as she feels it has nothing to do with her , yet still has the power to make her feel dissatisfied . |
| 9 | She had engaged a young girl , only fourteen years of age , called Maria , brought to her by the caretaker of the house , and vouched for as ‘ good and obedient ’ . |
| 10 | She had the name ‘ Sarva Khepi ’ given to her by the villagers , which means ‘ The woman who loves all things ’ . |
| 11 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| 12 | The back door was barred to her by the people she would have to pass in the kitchen . |
| 13 | There are rules for deciding how much is taxable , and these should be explained to her by the insurance company with which she is dealing . |
| 14 | After her Essex Ladies team-mate Jenny Stoute had rushed on the track to embrace her , Gunnell then embarked on one of the slowest laps of honour imaginable as , draped in the Union Jack given to her by the crowd , she stopped to receive hugs from the fans . |
| 15 | After her Essex Ladies team-mate Jenny Stoute had rushed on the track to embrace her , Gunnell then embarked on one of the slowest laps of honour imaginable as , draped in the Union Jack given to her by the crowd , she stopped to receive hugs from the fans . |
| 16 | Which is why we 've got to get the typescript to her by the end of January . |
| 17 | Sabrina asked , holding up the one given to her by the stationmaster . |
| 18 | This is the story of how a woman made of iron emerged from the depths of a grocer 's shop in Grantham and , speaking with a strange tongue given to her by the God of Graven Images , Sir Gordon Reece , held a nation under her spell . |
| 19 | It was through this most improbable passage of Scripture , taken home to her by the Spirit , that she in due course became a Christian . |
| 20 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 21 | JANET Broadbent with the marketing award certificate presented to her by The Catering Guild . |
| 22 | Draped across the carved wooden lid of a nearby chest were the clothes given to her by the Queen . |
| 23 | Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables . |
| 24 | Cathy Carne had a letter handed to her by the lawyer . |
| 25 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |
| 26 | When they had passed under the Ponte di Rialto , with a disappointing view of the backs of its double row of shops , she checked the directions given to her by the hotel clerk , and , along with a jostling crowd of people , some tourists , some locals , disembarked at Sant'Angelo . |
| 27 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 28 | Mrs Bottomley has asked the committee to make recommendations to her by the beginning of 1994 . |
| 29 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |