Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] her an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gentleman who was impressed by Leapor 's poems has given her an occasion to debunk any notion that intellectual or personal worth can be judged from physical appearance . |
| 2 | However , her position as Treasury spokesperson has given her an excuse to stick doggedly to her brief . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 5 | It would have given her an excuse to be searching for a particular room , but she had been so frightened … |
| 6 | And had Leith any compunction about what she was doing on her own behalf , because it was for sure that , having given her an ultimatum , Naylor Massingham would create hell on the day he learned — as , sure as her name was not Rosemary , one day he must — that he had claimed her as his girlfriend for nothing , then that compunction vanished without trace . |
| 7 | He paused , then added dispassionately , ‘ Had she been born a man , those traits would have made her an excellent ruler . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had given her an egg ; an orange egg about four inches long and made , of all things , of soap . |
| 11 | Her uncle was a slaughterman who had given her an animal on its way to the abattoir . |
| 12 | Elizabeth visited Ivy not long after the University of Leeds had given her an honorary doctorate , in May 1960 . |
| 13 | They said Farrow gave him the Valentine with ‘ a gentle , almost kindly ’ glance after he had given her an embroidered heart and a red satin box of chocolates . |
| 14 | Mrs Bradshaw was a kindly lady , but half a lifetime as the wife of a top civil servant at the Ministry of Defence had given her an authoritative air which at times verged on the imperious . |
| 15 | Her conversations with the villagers as they shelled peanuts or sat around the fire , the interest she took in her pupils and their home backgrounds , her journeys out into the villages on teaching practice or corps activities had given her an appreciation of how the Africans thought and felt . |
| 16 | Her first impression of the man she knew with a sinking feeling could only be Niall Grant was of strong , sun-tanned features which held her gaze as the blue eyes looked coolly into hers , and for the first time in her life her height , which at five feet eight inches had given her an advantage over a lot of men , suddenly seemed diminished . |
| 17 | Maureen had given her an exasperated look . |
| 18 | Lori had given her an old-fashioned look . |
| 19 | She had n't become a whore because she wanted to ; it was because the money of perverted old men had offered her an easy way out of poverty — those same old men who would clamour for the investigation to be dropped . |
| 20 | She laughed delightedly , too happy to care about anything but the fact that her trip had brought her an undreamed-of surprise . |
| 21 | She got home to Kington Square at last , still grubby , very hungry , quite dispirited and having had to hand over to the police the document which had cost her an unreasonable amount of suffering . |
| 22 | Karen 's given her an extra job from |