Example sentences of "[verb] to her by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | JANET Broadbent with the marketing award certificate presented to her by The Catering Guild . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cathy Carne had a letter handed to her by the lawyer . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables . |
| 8 | Once it is forgotten again , she resumes her work in the spartan room allocated to her by a local co-op . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | " 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 . |
| 11 | Madame Bovary has a dog , given to her by a game-keeper whose chest infection has been cured by her husband . |
| 12 | She had the name ‘ Sarva Khepi ’ given to her by the villagers , which means ‘ The woman who loves all things ’ . |
| 13 | 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. |
| 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 | Sabrina asked , holding up the one given to her by the stationmaster . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Draped across the carved wooden lid of a nearby chest were the clothes given to her by the Queen . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 22 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The back door was barred to her by the people she would have to pass in the kitchen . |
| 25 | 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 . |