Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to her in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did n't want to be seen talking to her in the office , so I should have to wait until she got home . |
| 2 | To show this was not true , I began to talk to her in an animated way , and she was attentive , encouraging me with questions . |
| 3 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 4 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 5 | If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now . |
| 6 | Alice would have liked to talk to her , for she felt drawn to her in some kind of kinship ; but Caroline did not feel this , it seemed . |
| 7 | Usually he never bothered to talk to her in bed , but this was what real lovers did , told each other their fears and worries , confided in each other , helped each other . |
| 8 | Since her inheritance , ten years ago , all her pleasures and hopes and excitements had come to her in such small parcels . |
| 9 | His words had come to her in snatches , barely audible . " |
| 10 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 11 | She thought she might have , that he had come to her in her sleep , whispered to her as he was whispering to her now , but she had forced the dream images away , she had denied them as she had denied what he wanted of her from the beginning . |
| 12 | Her mother had stopped crocheting , so Jessie said , and was in the sitting-room going through a catalogue of curtain material for yet another change at the windows and had decided firmly against anything resembling Nottingham Lace ; her mind was now set on drapes with pelmets , so Jessie had whispered to her in the back shop a short while ago . |
| 13 | Maria stood there , hating him , but not for anything he had done to her in the past . |
| 14 | " A charming man , " Aunt Alicia had written to her in America , " has become my tenant . |
| 15 | Mr Malik had got to her in her most vulnerable area — the brain . |
| 16 | He had called to her in his dying moments , and she had thrown him a fragment of her white nightgown , which he had clasped with hope , and kissed , and kept as a precious icon . |
| 17 | The raillery with which he had spoken to her in her early days at Vetch Street had changed its nature . |
| 18 | He had spoken to her in confidence , he had spoken personally and emotionally , and it would not be right to tell anyone , not even Rosie , what he had said . |
| 19 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 20 | What had happened to her in the church — and in a church — and with him . |
| 21 | I was n't prepared for what had happened to her in the year since I had last seen her . |
| 22 | It was as though all that had happened to her in the past year was suddenly before her , and all her own shortcomings into the bargain had landed on her in a heap , and were destroying her . |
| 23 | He had listened to her in silence , but now he smiled a cynical smile . |
| 24 | In a way she was happy that Harry had chosen to come to her in his distress , yet it highlighted his attitude towards her . |