Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] her [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to telephone her this morning at the flat but there was no reply . |
| 2 | ‘ I went to see her this morning like you said . |
| 3 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
| 4 | ‘ You offered to give her some help with her career , too . |
| 5 | But they did get her another chair , and put it in the old chair 's place . |
| 6 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 7 | His voice was deep and soft with memories , so that she felt her heart dip , then beat crazily as she remembered the last time she 'd been involved in his research , when he 'd kissed her that morning . |
| 8 | Feeling unutterably guilty , she saw he 'd brought her another drink and a fresh hot-water bottle . |
| 9 | He went to see her that day he took you to the airport . |
| 10 | What she had now was twice what she had suffered before this — a love so very agonising , a love without hope because someone else had the right and the claim to him now and that was why he had kissed her that way — to let her know how hopeless it all was . |
| 11 | He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive . |
| 12 | If Benjamin had given her nothing else in their life together he had given her this child , and for that Sarah would forgive him anything . |
| 13 | Anyway , he had given her enough money to have the baby comfortably ; and she had already made up her mind that she was n't going to have it adopted . |
| 14 | He had told her that he had wanted her that night at the house , but he needed no words now — his body was evidence enough — and sheets of flame seemed to shoot through her as her arms wound around his neck and she arched against the demanding , hardening muscles . |
| 15 | He had warned her that desire was all he had to offer her , and he had probably assumed that his warning had hit home . |
| 16 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 17 | Ever since he had spanked her that night in the bungalow at Moascar garrison , she 'd yearned for the cane . |
| 18 | She remembered Havvie 's last words when he had left her that afternoon , and knew that what he had said was true . |