Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 2 | She knocked on his door and asked if he would be kind enough to show her the famous bird . |
| 3 | Though it would be a great personal sadness to have to do it , it would nevertheless give her the greatest satisfaction to see Kirsty settled in a warm and loving family . |
| 4 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |
| 5 | When a care worker later approached her the 88 year old pleaded : ’ Do n't hit me . ’ |
| 6 | Then Finn had come up , grim , silent and dripping blood , wordlessly shown her the dreadful cut and gone upstairs to his sister for a bandage . |
| 7 | If she went to Veronica with this story , she might as well tell her the complete truth . |
| 8 | Annunziata , who had accepted the hug , made Julia get back into bed and then told her the whole story . |