Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Propped up in bed to ease her breathing , her nightcap pulled down over her ears , Aunt Sarah seemed to have shrunk inside the shawls which had been heaped upon her against the chill of the room . |
| 2 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 3 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 4 | The visit to the bank by the wife after undue influence had been exercised upon her by the husband was purely a matter of formality of signing the document which had been retained at the bank and which was done without any kind of advice in the presence of a junior member of the staff . |
| 5 | The Diggorys were long abed , and Hector shut up in her little room , but candles had been left for her by the front door . |