Example sentences of "[to-vb] her the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I , on behalf of all her other fans around the world , would like to wish her the best of luck for 1992 . |
| 6 | Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win . |
| 7 | Her alarmed personal physician Dr Michael Roth was forced to give her the stark warning when she refused to rest up completely . |
| 8 | If you lack confidence in your ability to give her the right kind of help and comfort , but really want to do so , you have nothing to fear , because this probably means that you are much better equipped for the task than you imagine . |
| 9 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 10 | There was no doctor , no magic seer to give her the golden branch and lead her into the underworld , only yet another pretty young woman , the radiological technician . |
| 11 | He was not free to give her the untrammelled life that she deserved . |
| 12 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Kenneth Clarke tells the programme how she once asked : ‘ Why do I have to do everything in this Government ? ’ and no-one had the nerve to give her the obvious answer — she did n't have to do everything . |
| 13 | The district nurse comes to give her the monthly vitamin injections for her anaemia — takes about ten seconds and she 's gone . |
| 14 | The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ? |
| 15 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 16 | Alright , she 'll be expecting she reckons she 's due on the twenty third of March , but the hospital say it 's , it 's the twenty ninth , so it 'll be next week , I 'll have to give a ring , we went to see her the other week , to see how she was , erm we went round er one night , I rung her up to see if she 'd be in , I said right we 'll be round for an hour |
| 17 | He loved her , and wished to save her the frightful inroads of Anglo-Saxon activity , and hated her hat . |
| 18 | He would do anything to save her the slightest inconvenience . |
| 19 | To ring her the following morning seemed , therefore , not just a good , but even a right idea . |
| 20 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 21 | She came out into the starlit night , and beckoned one of the battered taxis to take her the short distance to the Monte Samana complex . |
| 22 | She knocked on his door and asked if he would be kind enough to show her the famous bird . |
| 23 | He took her through to show her the four-roomed suite that was his private living space within Liston Hall . |
| 24 | She 's arguing with the serving woman who 's lifted all the lids from the hot dishes to show her the succulent variety . |
| 25 | However , in the same area , they had added , there were other vignerons , who would be happy to show her the wine-making process , using the most modern and scientific methods , and allow her also to taste their products without obligation . |
| 26 | So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world . |
| 27 | JENNIFER CAPRIATI , the 13-year-old American prodigy , is joining the professional ranks on a contract almost certain to make her the youngest millionairess in the sport . |
| 28 | He skipped along the corridors and went to see Matron to tell her the good news . |
| 29 | She had scarcely seen the Mercedes that had swung into the drive just as she 'd been about to go out , but by sheer instinct she had swerved to miss it , sparing only a glance in the mirror to tell her the other car was safe before speeding on her way again . |
| 30 | He was forced to tell her the heartbreaking news that : ‘ Mummy is n't coming back . ’ |