Example sentences of "to her " in BNC.
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| 1 | from an infected mother to her baby . |
| 2 | At last , in 1975 , the wife of one of the prisoners , a former air force pilot , telephoned the young woman 's mother to come to her house quickly . |
| 3 | To her surprise , there proved to be perceptive judgements about qualities in Michelangelo 's work , almost hidden in catalogue entries ; more than one art historian , apparently , was not only learned but had an eye . |
| 4 | The queen of the authors is Harriet Scrope , novelist , plot-stealer , and ferocious egotist , whose war against the world she inhabits extends to her best friend and her cat . |
| 5 | And it leads to her flowering , to her escape from her condition . |
| 6 | And it leads to her flowering , to her escape from her condition . |
| 7 | Told me Moira F. had written to him , anxious for news about the glass , complaining that I never answered the phone , never replied to her letters , what should he tell her ? |
| 8 | At the prow Jilly Jonathan abruptly stopped singing and jumped to her feet . |
| 9 | From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea . |
| 10 | Miss Abernethie jumped from her chair , scuttled in the direction of the broad flight of steps leading to the road outside , tripped clumsily over Jilly Jonathan 's big crocodile-skin handbag , fell to her feet , scrambled up again , pushed the heavy bag aside with a cry of rage that came oddly from her dumpily respectable self and ran off out of sight . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's quite enough , ’ said Peggy , attempting a stern approach to her audacity . |
| 12 | To her credit , whatever other social solecisms the inexperienced Peggy might have committed during their stay in Little Tuckett , she had never betrayed a confidence . |
| 13 | On his knees he took off the slipper , slid the white high-heeled sandal on to her foot . |
| 14 | Coolly Bunty turned to give a final look in the mirror ; then put her fingers to her lips and , as she passed Conroy , pressed them against his . |
| 15 | ’ He gave a sob , ‘ and she went rattling down the stairs to her room the way she always did and then I heard that awful sort of slither and Bunty 's scream … ’ |
| 16 | He looked up as Marion , Conroy still clutched to her side , came out through the doors from the stage , some of the others trailing behind her . |
| 17 | Her blue eyes were cold as slate as she turned to her husband . |
| 18 | Marion stepped forward , statuesque with Conroy held to her side like Medea in her big scene . |
| 19 | ‘ They say her family is being held hostage to her good behaviour . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not so sure about Thomas , ’ said Ethel , ‘ but she 'd have stuck to her own circle . |
| 21 | He put his hands out to take up the carving knife and fork and Amy Hall murmured something to her neighbour about Arthur always having wanted to be a surgeon really . |
| 22 | It was to her own surprise that Muriel Box , the director of 14 modest budget feature films between 1951 and 1964 , found herself an inspiration and a role model for a new generation of women film-makers , critics and students . |
| 23 | ‘ In his office , ’ she replied , and she then returned her attention to her newspaper . |
| 24 | When she arrived , she listened to the story of what had happened , teased out the relevant details , then announced that the police would have to be called and went off back to her office to do the necessary . |
| 25 | She smiled and pointed to the wall to her right . |
| 26 | Suddenly , Katrina dropped to her knees and began scrabbling around on the floor . |
| 27 | About three weeks after I moved in , she invited me around to her flat for supper one evening . |
| 28 | I 'd never been to her place before . |
| 29 | From a mother , who has HIV , to her child during pregnancy . |
| 30 | Around the third glass of wine , she would become vehement , a soft rose rising to her cheeks from the ivory-silk of her blouse . |