Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 2 | It then took me an hour as she lay there sobbing to find her a bed . |
| 3 | I stopped to find her a name . |
| 4 | But I think we would have tried to find her a job rather more removed from mine , over time . ’ |
| 5 | Still reluctant to abandon her , he placed advertisements in the local paper in an effort to find her a job . |
| 6 | I had to find her a flat , move her in , go to the Electricity Board , and then her husband Monica 's one of those who need a mother , someone who takes her on An idea came into Alice 's head of such beautiful and apt simplicity that she began laughing quietly to herself . |
| 7 | Jotan 's sister was eighteen , and Burun was constantly aware that he would have to find her a husband before the year was out , otherwise she would be entitled to go with any man she chose . |
| 8 | Indeed , they seemed to be leaning over her to catch her every breath , closest by her panting mouth , reaching to her eyes , and the air was thick with poison sap and sharp with vomit . |
| 9 | So I settle down to write her a letter explaining my erratic behaviour . |
| 10 | ‘ So Angy asked him to pass her a knife while she was cooking something . ’ |
| 11 | She put them into the basket and Chola stretched across the fire to pass her a puri . |
| 12 | He put her suitcases down in the driveway and reached into the boot to pass her a carry-case which Belinda recognised as containing a portable monitor , something like an electrically amplified stethoscope , which meant that it was often possible for a pregnant woman to hear her baby 's heartbeat as early as ten weeks into the pregnancy . |
| 13 | Yet , unable to refuse the implied reproach , Celia sat down in the antique rocking chair she had bought and allowed Miss Maynard to pass her the child . |
| 14 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |
| 15 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 16 | Perhaps he was going to try to sell her a story for the column ? |
| 17 | Erm , so you might be able to sell her a monitor . |
| 18 | If she 'd hoped to unnerve her the way she did Letty then she was wrong . |
| 19 | It used to annoy her the way everybody took no notice . |
| 20 | But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp . |
| 21 | ‘ Invalid and invalid as in having no effect , ’ Fernando grumbled as he went to pour her a drink from a jug on the table . |
| 22 | The horse was made to foil her every move , leaping forward as she moved quickly and turning her away . |
| 23 | The shameless bitch openly encouraged her young admirer 's attentions , summoning him to fetch her a drink , move the parasol , even to rub sun cream on her topless back . |
| 24 | Juliet smiled at Gaynor and went to fetch her a bedpan . |
| 25 | The Eldest Son 's wife had gone quickly to fetch her a glass of tepid water , which she drank carefully , tipping her mask back fractionally to accommodate the glass . |
| 26 | The doctor went to fetch her a glass of water . |
| 27 | Her work on the project is strongly tipped to win her a place among the nine finalists of the competition , whose work will be developed at at National Theatre workshops involving members and patrons in July . |
| 28 | Liz Taylor 's courage in playing a woman older and ( then ) fatter than herself in Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? ( 1966 ) was enough in itself to win her an Oscar . |
| 29 | Although experienced on stage and television , she had made only one film , Funny Girl , unreleased then but set to win her an Oscar . |
| 30 | Whoever he was , and he had still not seen fit to explain that little detail , he was making no effort to afford her the awestruck courtesy to which she was accustomed . |