Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] her [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her course teacher has given her a reading list , and the library staff are good at helping students with all sorts of interests . |
| 2 | ‘ It has given her a head start over everyone else and trained her in the art of being able to look after herself . |
| 3 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 4 | However , her position as Treasury spokesperson has given her an excuse to stick doggedly to her brief . |
| 5 | The gentleman who was impressed by Leapor 's poems has given her an occasion to debunk any notion that intellectual or personal worth can be judged from physical appearance . |
| 6 | Now at last the successful bowel and liver transplant carried out in America has given her the chance of a normal future . |
| 7 | For Coun. Mrs Kay Kirkham , Liberal Democrat , the election has given her the chance to experience the action from the other side of the fence . |
| 8 | Dinah 's father has forbidden her the stage , and I — ’ |
| 9 | She seems to thrive on heretical statements and swimming against the tide : ‘ I look at what the cosmetic trade is doing and walk in the opposite direction , ’ she declares with the kind of outspoken defiance that has made her a retailing legend in the decade it took her to turn The Body Shop into a worldwide phenomenon . |
| 10 | Since he has offered her the role of Claudia Cohn-Casson , she has introduced him to journalists , script writers and directors . |
| 11 | And Peregrine Worsthorne has left her the word ‘ embonpoint ’ , which he used in court , among other circumlocutions , to describe her appeal . |
| 12 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
| 13 | He 'd given her a string of cultured pearls as a wedding present . |
| 14 | She was already dutiful and anxious to please him , and she looked so pretty in a dress of sprigged cotton he 'd given her the money to buy for the wedding . |
| 15 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 16 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 17 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |
| 18 | And she went away and produced that document after we 'd given her the brief . |
| 19 | He reminded her of the day he 'd given her the locket and ring . ’ |
| 20 | She ignored that and asked him whether he 'd booked her a seat with us on the flight south from Lima . |
| 21 | Cos I 'd got her a tube of toothpaste . |
| 22 | By the time I 'd had her a fortnight , and she was about five weeks old , her trust in me was growing . |
| 23 | She did not care that he 'd called her a whore . |
| 24 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd had spun her a fanny . ’ |
| 26 | We should have given her a call . ’ |
| 27 | You would n't have given her a second glance that evening , amid the florid , the fancy and the flash . |
| 28 | The matron of a residential home , talking about a doctor who she felt was reluctant to visit said it would have been helpful if the person who died had been visited more often : ‘ It would have given her a lot more comfort and the staff a lot more confidence . ’ |
| 29 | If your wife had answered I would have given her a load of old cods . |
| 30 | ‘ I may indeed have given her a guinea or two in a moment of late night extravagance . |