Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] her [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all .
2 Together they had laboured in the fields until fortune smiled on Elizabeth ; while she was still in her teens , her family were befriended by a wealthy benefactor who had her educated and , in 1744 , arranged a marriage for her with the 13th Earl of Glencairn .
3 Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time .
4 Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them .
5 She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days .
6 He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place .
7 Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before .
  Next page