Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] her by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables . |
| 2 | JANET Broadbent with the marketing award certificate presented to her by The Catering Guild . |
| 3 | The Queen 's speech at the opening of parliament is of course written for her by the government of the day . |
| 4 | And his ecstasy had soon become her ecstasy , an electrochemical fuel that had ignited in her , burning away all the taint of that earlier false frenzy enforced on her by the Harlequin man . |
| 5 | Earlier she had played Juliet ; and there had been much adulation showered on her by the public and the newspapers . |
| 6 | This is the story of how a woman made of iron emerged from the depths of a grocer 's shop in Grantham and , speaking with a strange tongue given to her by the God of Graven Images , Sir Gordon Reece , held a nation under her spell . |
| 7 | Like Hannah she is angry at the ideal presented to her by the advertising world , as she feels it has nothing to do with her , yet still has the power to make her feel dissatisfied . |
| 8 | To symbolise her new life , her new role defined for her by the male rule-makers of society , a girl may even be given a new name on marriage . |
| 9 | Innocent that she was , for all the sophistication conferred on her by the great world in which she had once lived , she readily agreed to Rose 's suggestion , and when they had parted Rose took care to remind her of her promise . |
| 10 | Cathy Carne had a letter handed to her by the lawyer . |
| 11 | An old lady descends from the black branches of the fire escape every morning and wearily gathers it all up and clambers home with it in paper bags : the food left for her by the birds . |
| 12 | Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board . |
| 13 | Another is a concerto written for her by the British composer Derek Bourgeois . |
| 14 | The friend was a newspaper reporter and the money was in fact paid to her by The Mail on Sunday , Gavin Lightman QC , representing the magazine in an appeal for a new trial , said . |