Example sentences of "[verb] her [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She earned a Distinction in Art and Design , which along with a conventional A Level in Textiles , helped win her a place at college . |
| 2 | Send her a bunch of flowers . |
| 3 | She was furious with Isobel for preferring God to any man , and thus denying her the status of grandparenthood , and furious with her husband for dying before her . |
| 4 | I visited her a couple of times in the hospital , and then Mr Browne told me she died . |
| 5 | He promised her a sight of Arfur this morning . |
| 6 | When she was thrown out of her digs he found her a room in Randolph Crescent and to get her on to her feet again paid her rent for a month . |
| 7 | The gardener found her a length of binding twine in a shed so that she could learn to skip . |
| 8 | She ignored that and asked him whether he 'd booked her a seat with us on the flight south from Lima . |
| 9 | It was dedication of that order which had won her the reputation of one of the finest young actresses around . |
| 10 | She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester . |
| 11 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 12 | What so you 'll buy her a bar of soap ? |
| 13 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |
| 14 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 15 | After the stridency and aggression of the school , the hate-mail , she was happy to find her temporary asylum in this gentle household where voices were never raised , where no one obsessively analysed her every sentence in the hope of detecting racist , sexist or fascist undertones , where words meant what they had meant for generations , where obscenities were unknown or at least unspoken , where there was the grace of good order symbolized for her in Mr Copley 's reading of the Church 's daily offices , Morning Prayer and Evensong . |
| 16 | Jean 's precocious bubble of confidence , which had earned her the attention of her parents , was replaced by a sense of guilt about what had happened which lasted into later life . |
| 17 | Ranald knelt to pull the hearth stones into place and build her a fire of peat from the fallen roof . |
| 18 | The blast had picked her up and dropped her a couple of metres along the ridge . |
| 19 | Perhaps he was going to try to sell her a story for the column ? |
| 20 | Julia sat down in the chair next to David 's and let him pour her a cup of cooling tea . |
| 21 | The same year ( 1017 ) he married Emma , herself a generous giver to churches , whose previous experience as Æthelred 's wife ought to have made her a fount of good advice on English churches and churchmen and how they were best dealt with . |
| 22 | It was a long walk from the lock , but Harry had made her a box on wheels in which to push the two little girls , Corrie Palmer and her last child , Lily , who was seven months younger . |
| 23 | In the bedroom Caterina and Rosalba shared in the apartment in Rupe , smaller than their room in the farmhouse , Rosa questioned her sister , whispering , the night after Tommaso had made her a gift of the bird in the street in sight of everyone coming out of Mass . |
| 24 | Despite her exclusion from formal power after James V 's death , sheer personality had made her a force in political life in the 1540s . |
| 25 | Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite . |
| 26 | ‘ Invalid and invalid as in having no effect , ’ Fernando grumbled as he went to pour her a drink from a jug on the table . |
| 27 | It 's costing her a lot of money . |
| 28 | But he was a kind man and took the trouble to sit with her and show her the hope in the Bible , the comfort and joy as well as the gloom . |
| 29 | This stimulates the male to lead her to his nest and show her the entrance by pointing his snout into it . |
| 30 | Three putts cost her a stroke at the 18th , which she followed with an eagle three at the 430-yard first when her seven-iron second finished only two feet from the hole . |