Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] her the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was n't sure if this was a reproach that he deserted her the rest of the year .
2 Ricky was so furious with Perdita for deliberately sabotaging her scholarship that he gave her the sack .
3 ‘ Oh , as usual , except- ’ She stopped and she turned to look at him , but she could n't make out his face in the darkness of the wood , so it gave her the courage to say , ‘ I 'm worried , Charlie .
4 I told her I 'd be in the Maple Leaf in Covent Garden until about nine , then down in Fulham and I gave her the address of the party and told her to ask for Louise .
5 Mrs Scamp levered them on to her face and I handed her the Access card .
6 The lady looked modest , but said nothing , and I handed her the bag .
7 If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time …
8 And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered .
9 And he gave her the kiss she was waiting for .
10 Here — ’ And he handed her the lamp , which had been designed to be portable .
11 And it gave her the security of knowing there was someone she could talk to , someone she could count on .
12 If he told her the fence would be best in barbed wire she 'd believe him .
13 If he offered her the use of one of his typewriters , she was done for .
14 When by the third day her father had still not allowed Jessie out of her room , and Agnes confronted him , saying he could n't keep her incarcerated forever , and that if he did n't let her out then she was leaving , and that she meant it , he had gone along to his daughter 's room , taking with him a Bible , on which he made her swear that if he gave her the freedom of the house she would not attempt to leave it .
15 General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt .
16 ‘ OK , ’ he said , taking her money and recounting it before he handed her the ticket .
17 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 .
18 That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news .
19 Yeah , but when I took her the toilet she wanted to go toilet
20 If my deception worked , she 'd still think she was attached to the creance and fly straight to me as usual when I showed her the chick .
21 ‘ Everything 's fine , my darling , ’ she whispered , giving Constance a little pat as she handed her the telephone .
22 As they showed her the house , Rose seemed to enter completely into the terrible awareness of Moran now sitting in the car chair meditatively rotating his thumbs about one another .
23 She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before .
24 When he told her the truth it sounded like cruelty .
25 Blanche plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator while she listened to the sergeant 's account of his afternoon , swearing softly when he told her the news from the forensic labs .
26 Shae leaned against him , dizzied by the mental pictures he was creating , and when he kissed her the touch of his lips sent a scorching heat right through her .
27 Now , they smiled , standing with fingers entwined , bodies touching , and even when he left her the smile would remain and she would save her tears until his train was out of sight , trying not to think of the brave goodbye that might be their last .
28 When he handed her the cocoa she looked up at him and said , ‘ Only three weeks to Christmas .
29 The advice sounded incomprehensible to her but when he handed her the phone receiver back , the car man said , ‘ OK , I 've got that .
30 She went to see Mr Bailey , the manager of the factory , and she was surprised and happy when he gave her the job immediately .
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