Example sentences of "[be] [verb] her [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 3 | I take it you 'll be staying her a few days ? ’ |
| 4 | Cuddling Flossie close , Robert said : ‘ I 'm feeding her a little bit at a time and she is looking much better already . ’ |
| 5 | They confirmed that Laura 's best hope of life would be to give her a new bowel , stomach , pancreas , liver and kidneys . |
| 6 | Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win . |
| 7 | She 's given her a cultural background for life . |
| 8 | A niece of Miss Vine 's bought her a new budgerigar . |
| 9 | Having denied that she is incompetent , I am certainly not going to concede that the only alternative is to make her a degenerate ; there must be another choice available . |
| 10 | This time I left it up to my patient to decide which area of her life was causing her the most distress . |
| 11 | The doctor was paying her the ten shillings , she could afford to be friendly . |
| 12 | His reply was to give her a sharp pull forward and then a shove in the back , which knocked her to her knees . |
| 13 | I can not quite remember the title of the Ballet , but Miss Margot Fonteyn was on her way up , we were quite sure , and that redhead Moira Shearer was running her a good second . |
| 14 | Somewhere at the back of her mind , it occurred to Bernice that Bishop was giving her an awful lot of rope . |
| 15 | And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares . |
| 16 | In showing this place to her and wanting to see her walking in it , he was making her a deep gesture of friendship ; she was sorry that she did not care more . |
| 17 | She knew he was leaving her the next day , perhaps for ever . |
| 18 | And he was offering her a derelict conservatory . |
| 19 | He was offering her a few days of physical pleasure which would only leave her thirsty for more . |