Example sentences of "[to-vb] her a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 2 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 3 | Maybe she was simply a bargirl , a cashier , an all-purpose heft-dispenser … and maybe I had already got to know her a little too well . |
| 4 | I stopped to find her a name . |
| 5 | But I think we would have tried to find her a job rather more removed from mine , over time . ’ |
| 6 | It then took me an hour as she lay there sobbing to find her a bed . |
| 7 | Still reluctant to abandon her , he placed advertisements in the local paper in an effort to find her a job . |
| 8 | I had to find her a flat , move her in , go to the Electricity Board , and then her husband Monica 's one of those who need a mother , someone who takes her on An idea came into Alice 's head of such beautiful and apt simplicity that she began laughing quietly to herself . |
| 9 | Jotan 's sister was eighteen , and Burun was constantly aware that he would have to find her a husband before the year was out , otherwise she would be entitled to go with any man she chose . |
| 10 | Laura asked the farm manager , Dai Davies , to find her a good Jersey milker and taught herself how to milk the cow . |
| 11 | So I settle down to write her a letter explaining my erratic behaviour . |
| 12 | She put them into the basket and Chola stretched across the fire to pass her a puri . |
| 13 | He put her suitcases down in the driveway and reached into the boot to pass her a carry-case which Belinda recognised as containing a portable monitor , something like an electrically amplified stethoscope , which meant that it was often possible for a pregnant woman to hear her baby 's heartbeat as early as ten weeks into the pregnancy . |
| 14 | ‘ So Angy asked him to pass her a knife while she was cooking something . ’ |
| 15 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps he was going to try to sell her a story for the column ? |
| 18 | Erm , so you might be able to sell her a monitor . |
| 19 | Hastily she sat down , and was relieved when the tall doctor took a seat safely distant from her own and reached to the table that separated them to pour her a long drink of the invitingly iced fruit juice . |
| 20 | ‘ Invalid and invalid as in having no effect , ’ Fernando grumbled as he went to pour her a drink from a jug on the table . |
| 21 | Shelley decided to tease her a little . |
| 22 | ‘ Something has happened to cause her a great deal of distress . |
| 23 | Luke Calder turned to shoot her a quick glance , and Fran did her best to paste a suitable expression to her face . |
| 24 | He was seen with a pretty young woman , was able to paw her a little without having the effort or commitment of doing more and had also enjoyed himself complaining about his wife . |
| 25 | The shameless bitch openly encouraged her young admirer 's attentions , summoning him to fetch her a drink , move the parasol , even to rub sun cream on her topless back . |
| 26 | The Eldest Son 's wife had gone quickly to fetch her a glass of tepid water , which she drank carefully , tipping her mask back fractionally to accommodate the glass . |
| 27 | The doctor went to fetch her a glass of water . |
| 28 | Juliet smiled at Gaynor and went to fetch her a bedpan . |
| 29 | Her work on the project is strongly tipped to win her a place among the nine finalists of the competition , whose work will be developed at at National Theatre workshops involving members and patrons in July . |
| 30 | If you have a really warm relationship with your elderly parent and the two of you communicate well , you may also be able to help her a good deal by occasional discussions on attitudes generally in bereavement and the more positive aspects of what has been such a tragic and painful experience for her ; steering her tenderly towards the realisation that what she now has is not only what Dylan Thomas 's wife described as ‘ left-over life to kill ’ , but left-over love to give , which is a very different thing . |