Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was furious with Isobel for preferring God to any man , and thus denying her the status of grandparenthood , and furious with her husband for dying before her . |
| 2 | Kenny Doyle , the twenty-eight-year-old barman at the Rollercoaster , knew her real age but that had never stopped him from serving her a drink . |
| 3 | Once she started writing her a letter and had filled a sheet of paper before she realized that Maggie could n't read so there was no sense in sending it . |
| 4 | There had been secrets , fears , dangers and delusions filling her every thought . |
| 5 | It 's costing her a lot of money . |
| 6 | ‘ Here you are , ’ he said , passing her the tiles while he took back his jacket . |
| 7 | Belinda wheeled the trolley over and helped Faye by passing her the lancet and reading the reagent strip for her . |
| 8 | Having reduced Helena to tears by refusing her a kiss on his departure for the wars , he has , you notice , to check himself from an involuntary lunge forward to comfort her . |
| 9 | Would you object to my paying her a visit ? ’ |
| 10 | He was n't paying her a compliment . |
| 11 | Now his fingers were pressuring over the skin inside her wrist again and she wanted to snatch her hand away , but , as if guessing her intention , he tightened his grip , pulling her a centimetre — no , more — towards him . |
| 12 | Meantime Berndt gushed with the oil of social graces , pouring her a glass of wine she had no intention of drinking , ( she remembered the Tjerssens as Friend had shown her them , smiling as they gave you ruby venom ) , pouting when she refused his macaroons . |
| 13 | Just over five minutes later she had taken the tablet and Felipe was pouring her a cup of tea , and Maggie looked at him in amusement . |
| 14 | Charity 's mind , that formidable intellect that had been governing her every action for years , reminded her of the crush of student loans she had to pay . |
| 15 | A federal district court in Washington D.C. ruled on May 14 that the large accounting practice of Price Waterhouse should compensate for its earlier discrimination against Ann Hopkins , a former employee , by awarding her a partnership in the firm . |
| 16 | She was only sorry that the brief formal note which had arrived from the Palazzo granting her an interview of no more than ninety minutes ' duration had stipulated that photographs would not be permitted . |
| 17 | ‘ Who was selling her the stuff , this same man ? ’ |
| 18 | I know what you want , and as sure as hell , ’ he said savagely , his merciless hands holding her a prisoner , ‘ I 'll stop you from getting it . ’ |
| 19 | She told them about her house and that the managers were calling her a thief . |
| 20 | His apologies to Rain were hasty and then he was gone , leaving her with her coffee and the Italian with instructions about calling her a cab . |
| 21 | He found her solicitude touching but Modigliani dismissed her , calling her a milksop . |
| 22 | They keep calling her a liar cos she hangs about with me . |
| 23 | The waitress — ( God preserve you if she catches you calling her a waitress ) : ‘ Hi , my name is Peggy Sue and I am your server this morning . |
| 24 | ‘ Adamus is teaching her the piano , Rachaela . ’ |
| 25 | Charles took on the job of improving Diana 's geography and also of teaching her the tricks of the trade — how to handle the different sorts of engagements , how to remember names and avoid missing or offending anyone , how to pace herself , how to address people , what sort of questions to ask and how to steer clear of banana skins . |
| 26 | I 'm not buying her a present , I mean I 'll chip in with a present for you for her and Mark if it comes , but we 'll have to go to , but erm , you know , she , . |
| 27 | He was careful to exchange addresses and telephone numbers and , if he had not been so short of funds , would have suggested buying her a drink at the Ritz , outside which they were both standing . |
| 28 | I thought I ai n't buying her a pump toothpaste cos all the others will you know , if they see a pump toothpaste |
| 29 | Mrs O'Neill had the sweetest tooth in Adam 's Creek , and Jed won a place in her affections on his very first day by buying her a Rocky Road on his way back from work . |
| 30 | He tried to patch things up by buying her a ten-thousand-dollar light-blue 1984 Cadillac — the colour of her eyes . |