Example sentences of "have [verb] her [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne 's background in painting , textiles and fashion has given her a sure eye for colour . |
| 2 | She says her mother 's devotion has given her a fulfilling life . |
| 3 | Love Hurts , she admits , has given her a welcome boost . |
| 4 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 5 | Her ability to capture the humour which is too often missing in children 's material has made her a firm favourite with children 's book publishers alike . |
| 6 | Her ability to capture the humour which is too often missing in children 's material has made her a firm favourite with children 's book publishers alike . |
| 7 | They promptly referred her to a housing association which has found her a three-bedroomed house . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had a devil of a job tracking you down , ’ he said after he 'd given her a big hug . |
| 9 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 10 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 11 | ‘ She agreed eight o'clock when I spoke to her yesterday , after I 'd offered her every other hour of the day . |
| 12 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 13 | He had very deliberately told her to get lost , and when she did n't take the hint , he 'd sent her an obscene note . |
| 14 | It was as if , in not knowing , he 'd paid her a great compliment . |
| 15 | She prospered at GSA nevertheless , coming out with the second highest marks in her final year , which should have given her a valuable travelling scholarship . |
| 16 | Why could n't he have given her a different choice , one that did n't involve old loyalties ? |
| 17 | Despite his having given her a tough time on set , Lysette is still very fond of Woody Allen : ‘ He gave me the courage to be brave . |
| 18 | But her belief that all women , regardless of wealth , should be offered clothes that were artistic and beautiful , not brash , sexually offensive or uncomfortable , would have made her a worthy member of most of the nineteenth-century dress reform movements . |
| 19 | He paused , then added dispassionately , ‘ Had she been born a man , those traits would have made her an excellent ruler . ’ |
| 20 | She had refused — even though it would have offered her an easy way out , and then circumstances had intervened and she had ended in the brothels in the notorious Monto . |
| 21 | It must have taken her an awful lot to write those words , and they were why I felt I could go back and see her now . |
| 22 | The tweedy lady , very county , who suffered from some extreme fungoid disease of her feet , which were wrapped in many layers of polythene and which in a public cinema would have guaranteed her a whole row to herself , but at the NFT caused whoever was unfortunate to have the adjoining numbered seat to retain vivid Aromavision memories of particular films . |
| 23 | And the law of probability seemed , for once , to have slipped up , and to have permitted her a striking piece of good luck . |
| 24 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |
| 25 | I 've given her a mild sedative and I 'll sit here with her myself until she sleeps . ’ |
| 26 | She had given her a tiny dose of medicine just before the explosion , and now Julia closed her eyes . |
| 27 | The night before , Cati had fallen asleep sitting with her mother and Rosa on the balcony in the cool of the evening ; when her mother had given her a gentle push to rouse her ; she found her slightly feverish and put her to bed . |
| 28 | He did not know that her vivid imagination had given her a convincing picture of Julia 's death . |
| 29 | Rune had given her a sharp glance as she replied , but then appeared to accept her question as an affirmative , as he took her firmly by the arm to lead her into his chosen restaurant . |
| 30 | A day or two later Anthony Rouse and I were astonished to hear that her agents were demanding the interview be withdrawn because , as she complained in a letter to the BBC 's Director General , Hugh Carleton-Greene , we had given her a solemn undertaking over lunch not to mention the matter of Wells and their son at all . |