Example sentences of "[vb pp] to her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 2 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 3 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 4 | A framed certificate was presented to her at the Good Companions ' meeting last week by chairman Janet Gill . |
| 5 | the prize of £1000 and a silver cup was presented to her at the college by Chief Executive , Best Western Hotels . |
| 6 | She also asked for those who were unable to attend the AGM to be thanked for the lovely watch presented to her at the end of her term as Chairman . |
| 7 | Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | JANET Broadbent with the marketing award certificate presented to her by The Catering Guild . |
| 10 | ‘ The first and the last of Mr Dickens 's works were aptly set here in Rochester , ’ she informed the party , all of whom then turned to her under the impression she was leading the party , earning another glare from Samuel . |
| 11 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 12 | Maria stood there , hating him , but not for anything he had done to her in the past . |
| 13 | She mouthed him , as he had done to her before the bite of his lust . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Was it true , what he had said to her about the value of this family life ? |
| 16 | No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died . |
| 17 | She had never responded to his embarrassing invitation , made to her during the permissive sixties , to use ‘ Haverford ’ , his Christian name . |
| 18 | Margaret was given gifts by many of the staff who also contributed towards a presentation made to her in the showroom . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 21 | Cathy Carne had a letter handed to her by the lawyer . |
| 22 | Shirley , sitting there mildly , the downstairs Shirley , thinking these thoughts , remembering the peremptory demands of the old , the attic Shirley , felt trembling in her , deep deep buried in her sitting-room centrally heated flesh , a wild improper memory , an admissible echo , the faintest thrill of a shudder of remembered desire : Shirley Ablewhite , the bad-good girl , called to her through the knot of her body , painfully , angrily , buried , buried alive , and Shirley Harper half heard her , bent her head , and acknowledged with mixed fear and relief the stirring , the tremor , the sulking , menacing , sweet and half despairing plea . |
| 23 | A minute more and she was certain she had walked further than the distance from the van to where Sniffy had called to her from the undergrowth . |
| 24 | Harry 's ghost called to her from the stone skull of the castle . |
| 25 | The booming surf far below called to her like the beat of a jungle drum . |
| 26 | As known to her as the door of the flat . |
| 27 | He had n't spoken to her since the day before her father resigned . |
| 28 | Papa , of course , was an actor , and had spoken to her about the pit and the gallery , the stage , the curtain and dressing-rooms . |
| 29 | Have you ever spoken to her about the problem ? ’ |
| 30 | spoken to her in the meantime |