Example sentences of "[vb past] her the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch .
2 Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones .
3 Meryl wrote to tell us of Lena 's general kindness , saying she found her the most helpful and patient person she knew .
4 The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly .
5 When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it .
6 And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no .
7 And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said .
8 You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone .
9 When a care worker later approached her the 88 year old pleaded : ’ Do n't hit me . ’
10 She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before .
11 Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time .
12 He assured her the job would not be too demanding .
13 But it was the knowledge that he 'd deliberately set out to make a fool of her that wounded her the most .
14 Whether she intended it or not , Emily 's deed during the 1913 Derby at Epsom afforded her the status of martyr , and her grave was to become a shrine .
15 He judged her the more harshly , and was the more hurt by his judgement , because he still worshipped her .
16 Although she was anxious to be able to travel on the underground and in aeroplanes , she felt that the problem which caused her the most inconvenience was her inability to go into any large shop or department store without experiencing extreme panic .
17 I told her the story .
18 I told her the story .
19 The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so .
20 A kind , serene girl called June told her the reason .
21 He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated .
22 By May , when a note from Rome told her the Brownings ' party was about to come back to Florence , she felt much more stable .
23 But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them .
24 She felt the sudden weight on her legs which told her the cat had leapt up again .
25 That same day , before the galley returned , Bridhe told her the story of the strange baby .
26 She rocked him gently while Bridhe told her the story , and she felt a confusion buzzing in her head .
27 While she filled the tank of the lady 's car she told her the legend of the Brownies ' Bridge .
28 Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy .
29 I told her the number straight off .
30 So Ruth told her the truth , but not quite the whole truth since she kept Dick 's name out of it .
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