Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy could easily have ferried her across the river in his boat , as he had done many times before . |
| 2 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 3 | He might just as well have branded her with the seal of his possession . |
| 4 | He reached for his cup , and there was Julian with the flagon lifted , ready to refill both his and Hotspur 's , so silently and impassively that they might almost have dreamed her into the fringes of their conference , but for the fourth cup which had appeared beside theirs , and which she was also filling to the brim . |
| 5 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 6 | Friends took her home , but they then had to chase her down the street as she fled from her flat . |
| 7 | Her friends back in London would never have recognised her as the Alyssia Stanley who had dozens of men trailing behind her , and who toyed with them but only for as long as it suited her . |
| 8 | And Jonathan would never have recognised her as the girl to whom he had become engaged , the easygoing girl whose only concern had been to have a good time , however much money it took . |