Example sentences of "[v-ing] to her " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange how fascinating he was becoming to her , against her own wish that their relationship should remain strictly businesslike . |
| 2 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 3 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
| 4 | After the ceremony , she and Ludovico went to Chiesa Santo Spirito , at the end of their road , where Ludovico had arranged for them to be blessed , explaining to her that it had no religious significance and did not endanger her non-Catholic soul . |
| 5 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 6 | ‘ So here the plaintiffs left everything to the defendant 's husband ; … and they must take the consequences of his having obtained it without explaining to her or her understanding what she was signing . |
| 7 | He procured his wife to sign the mandate for the joint account without explaining to her , and without her understanding , that she might become personally liable for a future overdraft on the joint account . |
| 8 | Ted was not altogether happy at the prospect of explaining to her how he came to be covered with mud down the front of his suit . |
| 9 | Try to make her understand how other people feel by putting herself in their shoes ; by that , I do n't mean hitting her over the head yourself , but explaining to her the pain of the other child when she hit him . |
| 10 | This is why they 're called hard-ons , " I remember explaining to her . |
| 11 | Towards the end of June , when sitting by Aunt Emily 's bed and explaining to her that they grew far too many potatoes for their needs and it would be sensible to grow turnips and swedes instead which would serve as winter food for the animals , Aunt Emily suddenly put out a hand and said . |
| 12 | Jane , the supreme example of self-control , did not know what was happening to her ! |
| 13 | She remained conscious , but became increasingly disorientated , losing all awareness of where she was or what was happening to her . |
| 14 | She felt herself to be still very slightly dazed , disorientated enough to give the impression that she was a disinterested observer of the scene and not quite able to realise that these things were in fact happening to her . |
| 15 | This was the final straw for Mrs B who broke down completely at the thought that her daughter could still think of her mother when this horrible thing was happening to her . |
| 16 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 17 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 18 | ‘ What 's happening to her ? ’ cried Googol . |
| 19 | ‘ What 's happening to her , man ? ’ |
| 20 | It must have been hard for her — uprooted and transported to a strange country — not to know what was happening to her and her mother , apart from the fact that somehow or other they 'd been able to join up again with the father . |
| 21 | Ace could n't believe this was happening to her . |
| 22 | Something was happening to her and something told him she needed help . |
| 23 | She was stunned at what was happening to her . |
| 24 | And this could never be real , this never could be happening to her , walking on the white squares behind Finn , who moved as if he did not set his feet to the ground , so gracefully , so uncannily . |
| 25 | But something strange was happening to her . |
| 26 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 27 | She was amazed by her own behaviour and between episodes was bitterly ashamed of what was happening to her . |
| 28 | She wondered what was happening to her . |
| 29 | What was happening to her ? |
| 30 | That chemical exchange between man and woman , that extraordinary kick in the solar plexus … and , deeper still , in places more intimate , more carnal — ’ As his warm honey voice spread through her , Meredith wondered how on earth he knew what was happening to her . |