Example sentences of "to her [art] " in BNC.

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1 She also made him promise the usual things like writing to her every day and keeping warm .
2 He said that to her every night she went up behind Pet , and every night she promised she would n't .
3 He had begun by putting Maldita in a stable with no straw and taking water and feed to her every eight hours , then , when she went for him , immediately removing them .
4 In Mozart 's opera The Magic Flute , there is a Queen of the Night , a sinister but magnificent figure , who demands that birds be caught and brought to her every day .
5 But she did let slip that she had to curtsey to her every day and say : ‘ Good morning Your Highness . ’
6 It is brought home to her every day in the person of her husband , a television documentary director .
7 They travelled extensively , but he had to pander to her every whim .
8 ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted .
9 ‘ I speak to her every Sunday on the telephone , ’ said Libby .
10 But of course we were you know crossing our fingers and she went to her every time .
11 He kissed her then , his mouth warm and sensitive to her every response , and when she put her arms around his neck he gave a hoarse inhalation of breath , his arms tightening around hers , and the kiss took fire , grew passionate , their bodies pressing together , harder , harder …
12 She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’
13 Well — if she had taken kindlier to her a year ago , we might have been wed by now , and I would have escaped the list . ’
14 The future , which once had seemed to her a long , grassy vista into distant sunlight , was now a black impenetrable vapour , blowing towards her menacingly , like some poisonous gas , and threatening to envelop her .
15 He acted as go-between postman , and from time to time he walked with Helen across and around the Common and talked to her a great deal about Edward .
16 It seemed to her a precious gift , far more than just an alleviation of present discomfort .
17 As she read on , day after day , often by candlelight , through St Matthew and St Mark and on to St Luke and St John it seemed to her a message was reaching her and that message was that she must face her own wickedness .
18 Surkov had quoted to her a poem by Zbigniew Herbert , and she 'd said this helped her to understand Poland more than anything else .
19 Christine , who had gained the Brownie Highway Badge , was an excellent writer and reader , and she felt rather grown-up as she wrote out notes for Miss Miggs or carefully read out to her a letter from her nephew .
20 Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours .
21 His once quiet , undemanding ease now felt to her a lack of response , a rejecting casual indifference .
22 Staring through the streaming window , Nell gritted her teeth every time the bows pushed out over the top of a big wave , only to hang in space before dropping away into the sixty-odd feet of the following trough that seemed to her a mile deep .
23 Next to her a fat woman with bulging eyes and arms like balloons , yelled :
24 The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead .
25 Despite his physical antipathy , Mozart wrote a sonata for two pianos ( rather than a duet sonata for one keyboard ! ) for himself and Josepha to play , and dedicated to her a set of six sonatas for piano and violin which was published by the prestigious Viennese firm of Artaria in November , 1781 .
26 If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times .
27 She fell towards them , wishing she had the energy to turn her gaze away from this blankness , but as he moved closer to her a little light caught his cheek and she saw , or thought she saw , tears there , spilling from those dark eyes .
28 Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there .
29 Northam Station seemed to her a peculiarly lovely spot for such an embarkation .
30 The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists .
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