Example sentences of "[to-vb] she [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Laura asked the farm manager , Dai Davies , to find her a good Jersey milker and taught herself how to milk the cow .
2 ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’
3 With that she saw me off with an invitation to visit her the next day after school but that I was to tell my parents in case they were worried where I was .
4 Hastily she sat down , and was relieved when the tall doctor took a seat safely distant from her own and reached to the table that separated them to pour her a long drink of the invitingly iced fruit juice .
5 ‘ Something has happened to cause her a great deal of distress .
6 She was very much as she had expected to be , having found in her marriage nothing to surprise her nor to cause her the least distress .
7 Luke Calder turned to shoot her a quick glance , and Fran did her best to paste a suitable expression to her face .
8 She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences .
9 If you have a really warm relationship with your elderly parent and the two of you communicate well , you may also be able to help her a good deal by occasional discussions on attitudes generally in bereavement and the more positive aspects of what has been such a tragic and painful experience for her ; steering her tenderly towards the realisation that what she now has is not only what Dylan Thomas 's wife described as ‘ left-over life to kill ’ , but left-over love to give , which is a very different thing .
10 The woman has turned down the offer of a caravan , and an attempt to buy her a seventy thousand pound house has been stopped by a public outcry .
11 In fact she felt that Jennie positively disliked her , particularly when none of the shoes in stock fitted her and Jennie refused to buy her a new pair .
12 ‘ He 's going to buy her a new typewriter ; that old thing she practises on makes a noise like a candyman 's trumpet .
13 In the rush of their departure , there had been no time to buy her a new one .
14 She 's looking for a decent second-hand one , and I actually want to buy her a new one , and she does n't know about it .
15 He offered that evening to buy her a little dog .
16 Many of Hazel 's friends gathered at Yew Lodge to wish her a long and happy retirement , and regional managing director Graham Foote presented her with a microwave oven , a transistor radio , and numerous other gifts on behalf of her many friends and colleagues .
17 Jay descended from the heights of near madness to wish her a warm good evening .
18 Among the many friends who came to wish her a happy birthday were , he read a piece written for Miss Laye by the Hon.
19 And it was wonderful to have heard from Liz today , when her cousin had rung to wish her a happy birthday , that she was expected to be discharged from hospital in about a week 's time .
20 On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so .
21 I , on behalf of all her other fans around the world , would like to wish her the best of luck for 1992 .
22 Even a turn of phrase could affect her , however worn and faded in its application , and one of her mother 's favourite sayings " What ca n't be cured must be endured , " never failed to give her a certain thrill , partly because of the grim inevitability of the rhyme , and partly because it almost managed to lend a little spare dignity to her mother 's stoic outlook .
23 Ace turned to give her a strange look .
24 Anne raised her hands in a placatory gesture and came across to give her a comforting hug .
25 Eventually , in what would then have been interpreted as a generous gesture on the part of the Poor Law authorities , the wife was freed in order to give her a second chance to build up a home .
26 Luckily she appeared so insignificant with all the bags that no one bothered to give her a second glance .
27 If you have children , it will be sensible to tell them how lucky they are to have Granny coming to live with them , and they should be encouraged to give her a warm welcome .
28 Wycliffe wanted her to talk , not merely to answer questions , and he tried to give her a new lead .
29 Tonight Rebekah Ashford should be in hospital in London preparing for an operation to give her a new lease of life .
30 They confirmed that Laura 's best hope of life would be to give her a new bowel , stomach , pancreas , liver and kidneys .
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