Example sentences of "[adj] to her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be heartless to deny her the pleasure of feeling that she is making a useful contribution to the preparation of meals , but it would be equally unkind not to make it clear to her from the beginning just who will be in charge and wearing the chef 's hat ! |
| 2 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |
| 3 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 4 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 5 | It was obvious to her from the beginning that there was too much overlap . |
| 6 | And perhaps most important of all was her ability to take whatever was sustaining and useful to her in the mid-nineteenth century 's version of ‘ womanliness ’ and ‘ domesticity ’ and to reject those elements which stifled , maimed and , sometimes literally , maddened other women . |
| 7 | Congenial or not , the truth had been made evident to her in the spread . |
| 8 | He had therefore decided to be as charming as possible to her during the summer holiday in Italy — as soon as he had managed to persuade her to let him join the family there . |
| 9 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 10 | He had seen others doing that to her in the clubs , and even though he 'd felt like stepping in when their attentions were becoming too direct , he had watched her superbly effective ‘ put downs ’ and stood back in awe . |
| 11 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 12 | She had not known what to expect from this side of marriage since there was no literature available to her on the subject and her mother had told her nothing . |
| 13 | If inflationary pressures began to mount in Britain there would be no ‘ soft option ’ or ‘ quick fix ’ available to her in the form of devaluing her way out of trouble . |
| 14 | The early history was familiar to her from the memoir of the founder which stood in limp green leather covers on Gilbert Racy 's shelves at Betterhouse . |
| 15 | She smiled nervously at Sergeant Phyllis Henley , who had been kind to her at the time of their parents ' ungainly departure from life , but uncompromising . |
| 16 | They were kind to her in the shops . |
| 17 | She has told you that I was kind to her in the summerhouse , though I 'll assure you I was quite innocent then as now , and I desire you to keep this matter to yourself . |
| 18 | Agnes actually put her hands over her ears as she looked at Jessie sitting close to her on the edge of the bed . |
| 19 | I walked back into the lounge and said , ‘ You clever girl ’ to Sally and sat close to her on the wide sofa . |
| 20 | In his pre-National race Devon Loch gave a stone to another future Gold Cup winner , Kerstin , when running third to her in the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham , after which Dick Francis reported to the Queen Mother that ‘ Devon Loch was staying on really well , and I feel we have a great chance at Aintree . ’ |
| 21 | Quietly pass her a note in our next lesson asking if I could sit next to her on the bus on the way home tonight . |
| 22 | She patted the place next to her on the lip of the stone fountain . |
| 23 | Wearily he sat down next to her on the sofa and worried at his hair . |
| 24 | Jealous of Lubor ? ’ and did n't know where she was when , as if he did n't think much of sitting opposite her in one chair while she had the huge couch all to herself , Ven suddenly moved from his chair and came and sat down next to her on the couch . |
| 25 | Rosette Fournier was not alone , next to her at the wheel Flavia saw the clear-cut profile of another woman . |
| 26 | As she committed her life once more to God 's service at the conclusion of one of the big meetings an old retired officer who had been specially invited knelt next to her at the mercy seat . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , come on in then ! ’ had reseated herself in the chair , and motioned me to take my place next to her at the desk . |
| 28 | Those dancing next to her in the line always felt dowdy by comparison . |
| 29 | On August 2nd , 1951 , 48-year old Mrs Mabel Tattershaw was spoken to by the man next to her in the Roxy Cinema , Nottingham . |