Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] her the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now at last the successful bowel and liver transplant carried out in America has given her the chance of a normal future . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dinah 's father has forbidden her the stage , and I — ’ |
| 4 | Since he has offered her the role of Claudia Cohn-Casson , she has introduced him to journalists , script writers and directors . |
| 5 | And Peregrine Worsthorne has left her the word ‘ embonpoint ’ , which he used in court , among other circumlocutions , to describe her appeal . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 9 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |
| 10 | And she went away and produced that document after we 'd given her the brief . |
| 11 | He reminded her of the day he 'd given her the locket and ring . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd taught her the tricks of his trade until by her own account she was better at it than he was . |
| 13 | Mrs Westaway is usually very good at keeping him under control , but he must have given her the slip somehow . |
| 14 | If she 'd said Carolyn had borrowed a book from Clare and wanted to return it , they 'd have given her the address . |
| 15 | I think that he may have given her the choice . |
| 16 | Even without the simple affirmation his face would have given her the answer ; he looked pale and drawn , as if he had slept even less than she had . |
| 17 | It was gratifying to have people shake her hand who once would n't have given her the time of day , and when she walked through the dreary rooms where evidence of the late Adelaide Morey still abounded she had trouble convincing herself that she was now the mistress here . |
| 18 | Benny knew that they must have got her the velvet dress with the lacy collar and the pumps to go with it . |
| 19 | Isabelle might have left her the case , but she 'd hidden these things away , making sure they would n't be discovered at least while her husband was alive . |
| 20 | Somebody must have undressed her the night before . |
| 21 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 22 | ‘ Seb , you 've given her the opportunity to live , not once but twice . |
| 23 | When she had finished , she sat down at the kitchen table with the envelope Tracey had given her the night before . |
| 24 | He looked at her and understood why her parents had given her the name . |
| 25 | Her instructor had given her the name of a boy who was selling a sailboard and who would be here in time for the afternoon race . |
| 26 | When he had given her the keys and the egg , and had left her , she first put the egg away with great care , and then examined the house , and at last went into the forbidden room . |
| 27 | She remembered how he had given her the creeps . |
| 28 | He had given her the capital for the first one on their twentieth wedding anniversary , when he had already bought a Georgian pendant that he dearly wished her to have , but before he chanced giving it to her he had asked her what she would like , and she told him . |
| 29 | Her mother , anxious to get to work , had given her the day off school . |
| 30 | She was so near to tears that her only outlet was to tell the whole sorry tale , including the news that Joanna had given her the day before . |