Example sentences of "to her at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years she had become a stranger to us , her sisters tending to avoid her ; all but my mother , who still wrote to her at Christmas-time . |
| 2 | ‘ She is not without intelligence , but the harm that was done to her at birth is irreversible . ’ |
| 3 | She said she slept in it because she worked on a computer that was only available to her at night and there was no point in going home after 2am . |
| 4 | Eddie Gilfoyle allegedly said that mum-to-be Paula was leaving him but his workmates were still able to speak to her at home and see her in the area . |
| 5 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 6 | Entries should go to her at SAWD Books , ( ) , by 29th January . |
| 7 | They were handed to her at Blackpool , where a royal aide gave the go-ahead for marriage guidance workers to present the fish . |
| 8 | For five years after her departure , Edinburgh castle was loyally held in the queen 's name under the command of her secretary , William Maitland of Lethington , and the distinguished soldier Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange , in spite of Kirkcaldy 's having led the forces opposed to her at Langside . |
| 9 | Lucy of course was always fun , and I talked to her at Paula 's villa whenever I went there . |
| 10 | ‘ I say , does your Dad really vote Labour ? ’ had been one of the politer questions addressed to her at elections and other periods of heightened political interest . |
| 11 | Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner . |
| 12 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 13 | The lobster served to her at dinner with David Swan was her first but , judging from the way she let the butter run down her chin , not her last . |
| 14 | Dragging her feet reluctantly , as if she was being pushed from behind , Sylvia took her book to Carolyn , standing well back and handing it to her at arm 's length . |
| 15 | The risk of the husband dealing with the property in the period between the court order and completion of the conveyance to the wife or lodgment of the transfer to her at HM Land Registry has already been mentioned ( see above p10 ) and practitioners will no doubt have taken protective steps accordingly . |