Example sentences of "to her [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , she was sufficiently alert to give vent to her usual state of ill-humour . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Coached by her father , John , she was runner up in her first tournament [ the Grampian Closed ] , and this was the start of her rise to her present position as number one in Scotland . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wendy Ramshaw 's retrospective exhibition at the South Bank Centre in London from 3 September to 7 October charts her career from the Newcastle College of Art and Design , where she studied in the Fifties , to her present eminence as the leading modernist woman artist-jeweller in Britain . |
| 7 | Daughter TIFFANY BLACK examines how her mother 's life has led her to her present occupation as professional artist and art school owner . |
| 8 | Extensively equipped , including stowaway mast/furling headstay , full electronics , delivered new to her present owner in 1986 . |
| 9 | She 'd progressed from a rather lowly start to her present place on the team with IMP just at the time when the true importance of the fuel companies and their technicians was beginning to be appreciated by the general public , or at least those aficionados who followed the world of Grand Prix racing . |
| 10 | Referring to her disgraced son-in-law as ‘ Mr Mellor ’ , she added that she knew of his decision to resign ‘ some time ago ’ . |
| 11 | She named Beatrice after one of Victoria 's daughters and a previous book , Victoria And Albert , alluded to her spiritual closeness with her estranged husband 's ancestor . |
| 12 | Ellen planned to return to her tiny apartment in the town where she kept her precious books and where , on an old manual typewriter , she wrote what she called her ‘ five-finger exercises ’ , which she would never let anyone read . |
| 13 | Now he was straightening the covers over her as she lay , utterly spent , and he was promising her answers to her unspoken questions in the morning . |
| 14 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 15 | Esther was also offered places at both universities , and chose Cambridge because it offered her a scholarship , and because her brother had been at King 's , and because she heard an owl hoot thrice in the college garden when she retired to her narrow bed after the glass of wine with Flora Piercy . |
| 16 | A hospital is investigating a woman 's claim that a botched operation led to her suffering months of pain . |
| 17 | He could listen to her gentle teasing before going into his secret room and memorandising the questions which bedevilled him . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the story provoked questions as to Clinton 's honesty and to his possible misuse of influence in appointing Flowers to her current job in return for her silence . |
| 19 | Lucy Haynes was as tied to her bad-tempered spouse as a satellite moon to its planet . |
| 20 | The album 's title is a rather self-conscious reference to her delicate frame of mind , and if you are of more robust taste the cover portrait of a blonde with an impossibly white complexion climbing up the wall will indicate that you should explore no further . |
| 21 | Indeed , all of Mrs Crump 's not inconsiderable bulk seemed determined to contract itself before the Honourable and her movements , her voice , her gestures declined in decent proportion to her increased sense of intimacy . |
| 22 | Gloria was from Lower Benbury herself , commuting to her various jobs in a red Ford Escort supplied from her Stanley 's stock of ‘ genuine , low-mileage used cars ’ . |
| 23 | From the pro-vegetarian tract on ‘ Tar Baby ’ , which updates the story of Brer Rabbit in Margaret 's hands , to her sad tale of a friend changed by drugs into a criminal ( ‘ Bleach And Salt Water ’ ) , through the observations on unwanted pregnancy ( ‘ Little Thing ’ ) , the LP brims with insights . |
| 24 | ‘ Stephen probably saved my life , and certainly saved my sanity because I was one sad lady , ’ says Barbara , referring to her traumatic divorce from Ronnie Knight , who was cleared of a murder charge and then deserted her for another woman . |
| 25 | Shakespeare referred to her three-fold nature in A Midsummer Night 's Dream : |
| 26 | The prospect of coaching a child as bright as this appealed enormously to her professional instinct as a teacher . |
| 27 | Contrary to her firm intention of not breakfasting with Ven , however , since he was standing by the table which was set for two when she again entered the sitting-room , she thought it would be infantile in the extreme to carry on with that intention . |
| 28 | Britain 's resulting debt burden was in fact greater than that of the French , whose consequent indebtedness has been linked to her political crisis of 1788 – 9 . |
| 29 | The scene is an entirely innocent one , yet it provokes Sarah to her greatest act of cruelty . |
| 30 | The tournament moves to Wembley today and Wright believes that this will prove to be to her advantage because the Perspex court is better suited to her slower style of play . |