Example sentences of "to her [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other women , who now spoke to her freely as a married woman among married women , certainly thought not . |
| 2 | The advocate-depute , Paul Cullen , told the High Court in Edinburgh that McKie had asked the girl to go outside , saying he wanted to talk to her away from the loud music . |
| 3 | He gave her a slanting , quite roguish smile , cleverly designed to appeal to her both as a woman and a mother . |
| 4 | So when he turned to her casually in the car , and suggested that they call in at his house for some tea before they parted , Folly found herself leaping on the suggestion with almost indecent haste . |
| 5 | The silver-haired gentleman , who turned out to be fluent in English and very charming in a gracious sort of way , chatted to her amiably about the south of France , though Alyssia did n't miss the way his eyes wandered unconsciously across to his wife every so often . |
| 6 | The fact was that talking to her either in person or on the phone gave him a sort of erection . |
| 7 | During the meal Elisa was able to find out what had happened to her immediately after the attack on the steps of the church . |
| 8 | Then , only a beat later it seemed to him , shame and anger raced back to take possession of him again , and so overcome by these conflicting feelings was he that he had no consciousness of her in all this , until he became aware , to his surprise , that she was shaking him out of his stupor , bringing him to her again with her mouth and her hands . |
| 9 | A child rated as ‘ attached ’ to its mother at nine months ( crying when she leaves the room , for example ) may express its attachment to her again at 18 months but through a quite different behavioural repertoire ( leaving mother but repeatedly checking back ) . |
| 10 | I turned again to Ellen , pretty freckled Ellen with her high cheekbones and clever green eyes and flaming hair and mocking smile , and I suddenly wondered whether McIllvanney had spoken to her again in the last week . |
| 11 | He raised his head and smiled to her again in a curious way , his eyes seeming to be laughing at her . |
| 12 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 13 | He protested to her hotly about this extravagance , but was quickly sent back to his rocks , cowering from her wrath . |
| 14 | His father 's favouring of Chuck had forced him to turn to her increasingly for solace , and that some unimaginable selfishness should have driven her to commit her dreadful act of desertion baffled and disturbed him deeply for reasons he did n't begin to understand . |
| 15 | ‘ I had n't talked to her properly for weeks . |
| 16 | The only good thing that had happened to her today after her meeting with her father was that she now no longer had her headache . |
| 17 | Faye lay on an Oriental couch amid a pile of silk brocade cushions and was happy to have the party guests come to her instead of herself circling amongst them . |
| 18 | I can imagine parents might like to send their daughters to her instead of having to go to London with all the problems of accommodation . |
| 19 | The cough and splutter of an aircraft engine came to her clearly on the still evening air . |
| 20 | Nonetheless he let it ring , feeling closer to her even through this tenuous connection , because his phone was ringing in her flat . |
| 21 | Then Nathan had come , brought by Paul , to whom he was devoted ; but attaching himself to her also at once . |
| 22 | And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go |
| 23 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 24 | Money was supposed to be wired to her soon from somewhere . |
| 25 | ‘ You have never done me anything but good , and I love you tenderly , ’ he had written to her soon before her death . |
| 26 | Oh flowers Yeah I was going to say , I thought we might send flowers to her maybe on Thursday or Friday . |
| 27 | After their first post-Wales reunion , on the evening of 19 September '98 , he wrote to her fearfully about the results of their intimacy : |
| 28 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 29 | Clare thought of telling her what it would have meant to her as a young girl to have a nicely furnished room to herself — what it would mean to her now for that matter — but sensed that such remarks would serve no useful purpose . |
| 30 | He had thought that he must come back to her now as a stranger , learning afresh the shape of her wide forehead and tapering face , and the way she had of opening her eyes wide to take in entire the person to whom she spoke . |