Example sentences of "[vb past] her [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 2 | I visited her a couple of times in the hospital , and then Mr Browne told me she died . |
| 3 | George asked , and drew her a step deeper into the darkness of the hedge . |
| 4 | ‘ David did n't like them at all and promised her a clothing allowance , ’ said her friend . |
| 5 | He promised her a sight of Arfur this morning . |
| 6 | Then husband Simon promised her an action replay if she could lose weight . |
| 7 | ' He cast her a look which , she guessed , was calculated to suggest a combination of nostalgia and affection . |
| 8 | He cast her a look . |
| 9 | Then her original mentor found her a machine to buy . |
| 10 | When she was thrown out of her digs he found her a room in Randolph Crescent and to get her on to her feet again paid her rent for a month . |
| 11 | She was made to heave the hostel and the SSD found her a flat . |
| 12 | At the same time , Michelle also wanted to return to singing and Dennis found her a job backing Leonard Cohen . |
| 13 | You know , as she had no family or friends , he was kind enough to pay for her to go to school , and found her a job here with your uncle . |
| 14 | The gardener found her a length of binding twine in a shed so that she could learn to skip . |
| 15 | I do n't think the boys ever found her an embarrassment . |
| 16 | ‘ I phoned her an hour ago , and Grandfather . |
| 17 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 18 | After the stridency and aggression of the school , the hate-mail , she was happy to find her temporary asylum in this gentle household where voices were never raised , where no one obsessively analysed her every sentence in the hope of detecting racist , sexist or fascist undertones , where words meant what they had meant for generations , where obscenities were unknown or at least unspoken , where there was the grace of good order symbolized for her in Mr Copley 's reading of the Church 's daily offices , Morning Prayer and Evensong . |
| 19 | She said you 'd be the I mean , and family when Wendy and that go and er she they had to with a la carte , oh it cost her a bomb ! |
| 20 | Cancer cost her an eye when she was a baby and it could reoccur . |
| 21 | It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her . |
| 22 | The blast had picked her up and dropped her a couple of metres along the ridge . |
| 23 | But Guy dropped her a note the next day , inviting her to a reception at the mess . |
| 24 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 25 | When I assured her no harm had been done , she said : |
| 26 | He assured her the job would not be too demanding . |
| 27 | Tsu Ma studied her a moment , then nodded . |
| 28 | He studied her a moment , then reached down , shaking her until she woke and turned , looking up at him . |
| 29 | He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul . |
| 30 | Because it drove her every moment . |