Example sentences of "to her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to her polite to do so . |
| 2 | One of the guards was badly injured , and says he owes his life to her prompt action . |
| 3 | A group of children , their dirty faces streaked with tears , clung to her tattered gown and stared round-eyed at the group of men who had commandeered the room and were now talking quickly in an alien language . |
| 4 | And then to her suppressed rage she realised that she was crying . |
| 5 | As the girl tilted her face up to her tall mother her hat fell off and , the mother 's fingers clasping the head , the hair came loose and fell down the black coat like a cascade of shining water , as soft-looking as a swathe of new mown grass . |
| 6 | When the two had finished speaking , she looked expectantly to her tall and charming rescuer . |
| 7 | It was madness , yes — a crazy , upside-down response to her turbulent emotions earlier , but her logical mind was slowly disintegrating under the wealth of feelings and emotions she 'd tried to keep hidden for so long . |
| 8 | She attempted to restore some order to her tousled hair with her fingers , then stroked on a little blusher to counteract at least a little of her pallor ; but there was little she could do to repair the ravages of the night , and finally she turned away with a heavy sigh . |
| 9 | However much she ate made no difference to her shapely figure . |
| 10 | The entry of Joanna , who came in to consult her about the drugs needed to replenish their stock , put an end to her melancholy reflections , and after they had decided Joanna said , ‘ When Ian comes round this evening I thought I 'd give him coffee or a drink in our sitting-room . |
| 11 | She clutched a hand to her ample bosom — actually not so much a bosom , more a shelf ( a cheap shot ) — and motioned that the phone was for me . |
| 12 | It would seem in this case that her unusual behaviour patterns and impaired development were not a product of personal inadequacy , but were due to her restricted early experiences and minimal human contact . |
| 13 | Contrary to her usual habit , she rang for a motorbike messenger . |
| 14 | She said that people had commented on how she seemed to be back to her usual self , and that things seemed to be going very well with her brother and sister-in-law . |
| 15 | ‘ Shall I come with you , love ? ’ asked Tina in a return to her usual motherly attitude . |
| 16 | They all looked and saw that Mildred 's feet , still recovering from the invisibility potion , had not yet reappeared , even though she had changed back to her usual self . |
| 17 | Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again . |
| 18 | ‘ We shall be formal , of course , ’ Georgina said reverting to her usual manner . |
| 19 | It was n't up to her usual standard — she would have to start again . |
| 20 | ‘ It means , ’ he explained , ‘ that Caroline — an inveterate matchmaker — is n't up to her usual tricks . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , she was sufficiently alert to give vent to her usual state of ill-humour . |
| 22 | On the Saturdays I would scrub the kitchen floor , black and polish the kitchen grate , and polish the knives , so that my mother could have a little rest on her return from several hours cleaning , sometimes having to walk at least a mile to her regular place of work . |
| 23 | Now , this contribution is not direct , it 's indirect in the sense that males , a male for example who is provisioning a wife who is pregnant is not directly invent investing in the offspring clearly you ca n't do that she has to do that , cos the offspring 's inside her body , but indirectly he may be feeding his wife , protecting her and providing for her in , in a way that is absolutely critical to her reproductive success too . |
| 24 | A study of the Atchee hunter gatherers in Paraguay show that a woman 's body weight was erm directly related to her reproductive success as was her age of menarche in other words the younger the younger menarche and the heavier the woman , the greater her lifetime reproductive success and this again er should n't surprise us . |
| 25 | Responding to her alleged intention to defy the ban , Mr Paredes said : ‘ How can they enter our airspace without permission ? |
| 26 | The cups rattled in response to her uncontrollable trembling . |
| 27 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 28 | It was not that she minded the hard work ; it was what the hard work did to her poor hands . |
| 29 | Breeze , who had been deep in thought , came back with a start to her present surroundings . |
| 30 | Carla was born in Mozambique , emigrated to Rhodesia , married a man from Edinburgh , came back to Britain to live in Surrey for two years , then moved to her present location in a small town outside Edinburgh . |