Example sentences of "[vb pp] her the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 let her go home Friday , discharged her the day after .
2 Somewhere en route the Ouvéa met up with the French nuclear submarine Rubis and after the trio of DGSE agents had boarded her the yacht was sunk .
3 It was dedication of that order which had won her the reputation of one of the finest young actresses around .
4 Other performances the schools selectors will have noted include the 300m hurdles sub-46 seconds runs of Joanna Mahony ( Wirral ) which have won her the Meseyside under-17 title and a silver at the Northern .
5 She had been necessary , but despised , so naturally he had discarded her the moment she was no longer necessary to him , and their single sexual collision was all it had taken to free him .
6 She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester .
7 Dinah 's father has forbidden her the stage , and I — ’
8 She helped to produce a sketch of her assailant and as a result of its publication , another woman told police that he was the same man who had attacked her the day before .
9 It was Esther , with the news that their friend Liz had rung her the night before to tell her that she and Charles were getting divorced , and that Charles intended to marry Henrietta Latchett .
10 She oozes a raunchy sex appeal and her legs have earned her the nickname Thundering Thighs .
11 Her white wimple covered nearly all her head , revealing only wrinkled yellowing skin that , combined with her dark eyes , had earned her the epithet ‘ Lizard Features ’ .
12 Jean 's precocious bubble of confidence , which had earned her the attention of her parents , was replaced by a sense of guilt about what had happened which lasted into later life .
13 I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations .
14 Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite .
15 He was a good-looking man with his jet-black hair and intimidating jawline , but she had encountered any number far more handsome , yet none had stirred her the way he could with a single glance from those incredible eyes .
16 But he had shown her the way out of her panic and con fusion : taken her into his world where things were bright , ordered , clear-cut , and easy to control .
17 When Jane asked for an overdraft , the bank manager ( slogan : ‘ We Like to Say ‘ Yes ’ ’ ) , a pompous Dad 's Army look-alike , after conferring with some nasty men in suits who turned their backs to her , had shown her the door .
18 She recalled the housekeeper 's kindness to her the previous evening , when she had led her from her mistress 's chamber and shown her the room that Miss Merchiston had assigned for her use .
19 He had , in a way , shown her the path , as Hansel did when he put down the pebbles which guided his sister and himself back home .
20 But later he had come back and handed her the letter , the letter Adamus had typed , from the Scarabae .
21 Benny knew that they must have got her the velvet dress with the lacy collar and the pumps to go with it .
22 The moment Madame Mattli had offered her the job she had made up her mind .
23 Except she was saying that you 'd actually offered her the job . ’
24 Had he really offered her the job ?
25 Since he has offered her the role of Claudia Cohn-Casson , she has introduced him to journalists , script writers and directors .
26 From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it .
27 They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon .
28 He had told her the story , and reassured her as far as he was able .
29 Not that he had n't told her the story of his sainted sister Eileen , and how she died giving birth to her child .
30 She was sure he had told her the story of the Moon and the Crocodile when she was a child , but she could n't remember it .
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