Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Heini 's wife , Tita , a former Miss Spain , has her way the final home of the picture will be Madrid . |
| 2 | Her flippancy helped her distance the odd reality of the blue that wove through her vision . |
| 3 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 4 | " To-morrow I 've promised to take Lizzie to see her niece the other side of Bridgeborough , " Sara said quickly , glad of the genuine excuse . |
| 5 | The fewer people who knew where she got her information the better . |
| 6 | She told her parents the next day . |
| 7 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 8 | She learnt her lesson the hard way . |
| 9 | The next time the girl opened her eyes the young officer was staring straight into them , his face strained and anxious . |
| 10 | ‘ Yell if this is really painful , ’ he said , and slowly turned her foot the other way . |
| 11 | That 's what Ann said ooh if we ever owe her rent the dear old soul will say oh well next week 'll do |
| 12 | Melody expressed her admiration the following morning as she stood watching Seb currying one of the horses . |
| 13 | Millions of babies have grown up happy and healthy on formula milks and your baby will thrive if he has a mum who 's relaxed at feeds , not anxious that she 's not giving her baby the best start in life . |
| 14 | but she liv I saw her Nan the other day and like her Nan , I do n't cos her Nan always invites me round . |
| 15 | And she learned her skills the hard way — working the clubs and pubs of the North of England . |
| 16 | Once she 'd downed some of the extra-strong brew she gave her sister the bare bones of the story , then turned dull eyes on Elise 's horrified face . |
| 17 | Shaking her head the old woman proffered a calloused palm , into which he deposited a shilling . ’ |
| 18 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 19 | — I caught her trying to brush her hair the other day . |
| 20 | Lucille Castineau stared gravely at her reflection in the mirror which , because it was only a small broken sliver , was being held by her maid , Jeanette , who was forced to tilt the glass up and down in an effort to show her mistress the whole dress . |
| 21 | Abandoned her father the black wind in his beard of stars |
| 22 | She pairs with him assuming that he will help her rear the young . |