Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] her the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 3 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 4 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , I know where Flaxperson is , I saw her the other day . |
| 7 | I saw her the other day . |
| 8 | I gave her the bare outline of your problem , Leonora — it was necessary to explain why I wanted an X-ray in a hurry . |
| 9 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 10 | She told her the plain truth . |
| 11 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 14 | He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated . |
| 15 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 16 | Back in the bedroom , he handed her the discarded nightshirt , his face carefully blank as Leonora scrambled into it , so unsteady on her feet that it was a relief to get back beneath the covers . |
| 17 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 18 | He took her the long way through the house again , and Belinda tried to orientate herself . |
| 19 | He offered her the only chair then set himself down on the edge of the bed , facing her . |
| 20 | He gave her the gleaming smile she detested . |
| 21 | It gave her the uncomfortable feeling of being turned inside out for better examination . |