Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] she [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir , I only met her this weekend . |
| 2 | , I only give her half a one as well . |
| 3 | I just gave her that ! |
| 4 | I overcame this problem quite easily in the end : I just gave her less for supper when she was off my hand , got her weight down , say , half an ounce , and built up her appetite , so that when I had her on my fist she 'd be hungry . |
| 5 | She said she occasionally felt that a job she could have been doing was being done by someone else leaving her less than fully occupied , but as her case load increased this feeling appeared to lessen . |
| 6 | And I 'm sure I never gave her any reason to be so high-and-mighty ! ’ |
| 7 | Or had you already told her that ? ’ |
| 8 | We always buy her that tha , well I mean we we bought her bag wi |
| 9 | Irene still comes to the apartment but we never see her any more except by accident . |
| 10 | But , you see I called her that because everybody else called her that . |
| 11 | In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return . |
| 12 | ‘ It always takes her some time to get ready She 'll be along later . ’ |
| 13 | But it really hit her this year , we felt quite disgruntled |
| 14 | He even gave her this . ’ |
| 15 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 16 | Earthy type , she used to say , but it was all talk with him and he never gave her any trouble that she told me about . ’ |
| 17 | He recently gave her some free advice when she launched her own business . |