Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another wave of chill wrapped her ; yes , she had been left untouched , though she had cleaved to his seal like hot wax and his pigment had painted her stomach the colour of the moon . |
| 2 | By the time Carrie had completed her task the wind had increased in strength from the north and a fierce blizzard was setting in . |
| 3 | She had little doubt that she had allowed her heart to rule her head , and , much as she had enjoyed what had happened between her and David , could she ultimately trust a man who had treated her sister the way he had ? |
| 4 | If only Esther had shown her daughter the love she craved , Beth would have returned that love , and things would have been so very different . |
| 5 | She could have bitten her tongue the moment the words left her mouth . |
| 6 | She had not told her friend the truth . |
| 7 | Unable to keep up the pretence any longer , she 'd told her friend the whole , disastrous story behind her stay in New York , only withholding her fears about a possible pregnancy as she 'd related the disastrous sequence of events . |
| 8 | Doctor Milford must have told her sister the truth and she was taking it very hard . |
| 9 | Her mother , on the other hand , had been told her address the night before — but it seemed highly unlikely that Mrs Agathangelou would have splashed out on such an opulent bouquet to welcome her daughter to London . |
| 10 | He wonders if she has told her husband the docteur — he imagines a cheerful Depardieu in a white coat — of the steps she has been obliged to take in order to get the part . |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 12 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 13 | Having lost her mother the moment she was born , the baby needed a nursemaid , so Patrick Milligan had hired the rat-faced Mrs MacDonagh who lived opposite . |
| 14 | I had advised Her Majesty the Queen not to break her holiday and leave Balmoral because of the General Election . |