Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] her the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet when he saw her the next day and attempted to speak to her she told him to leave her alone and ran off into the prop-room . |
| 6 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 7 | Celia 's patience snapped when he poured her the second glass of retsina . |