Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] her the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 2 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 3 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 4 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 5 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 6 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , I know where Flaxperson is , I saw her the other day . |
| 8 | I saw her the other day . |
| 9 | And then I saw her the next day and and then I realized the and then I came back home and I told her why does n't she see there 's something changed . |
| 10 | I gave her the bare outline of your problem , Leonora — it was necessary to explain why I wanted an X-ray in a hurry . |
| 11 | I gave her the best books |
| 12 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 13 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 14 | She told her the plain truth . |
| 15 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
| 16 | to me that 's where they took her the first time , they did n't take her right on the the roads , you know , the first time she 'd |
| 17 | He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately . |
| 18 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 19 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 20 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 21 | He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated . |
| 22 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 23 | He showed her the little holes in the chin guard , and reluctantly she tried it again . |
| 24 | Celia 's patience snapped when he poured her the second glass of retsina . |
| 25 | Back in the bedroom , he handed her the discarded nightshirt , his face carefully blank as Leonora scrambled into it , so unsteady on her feet that it was a relief to get back beneath the covers . |
| 26 | He handed her the folded documents as he prised open the first box . |
| 27 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 28 | He took her the long way through the house again , and Belinda tried to orientate herself . |
| 29 | Yet when he saw her the next day and attempted to speak to her she told him to leave her alone and ran off into the prop-room . |
| 30 | He offered her the only chair then set himself down on the edge of the bed , facing her . |