Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] her [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her appetite for life , boundless energy and numerous gifts and graces made her an all-round person . |
| 2 | She knew it was ridiculous , but his words gave her a strange little tingle deep inside , and she was forced to smother the smile that kept trying to push its way to her lips . |
| 3 | His words gave her a slight shock as they sent tingles of pleasure through her , but she knew she must not allow them to go to her head , so she pushed them aside as she uttered a light laugh and said , ‘ Me — an angel ? |
| 4 | Passers-by gave her a wide berth . |
| 5 | Piers gave her a long , cool look and she turned away . |
| 6 | Piers gave her a cursory glance , and the blood rushed to her hairline . |
| 7 | Piers shot her a puzzled look . |
| 8 | To her relief , she was back to full fitness in time for the British Stroke-Play at Southerness where a 78 and 77 carved out of near gale-force winds gave her the half-way lead . |
| 9 | The panic attacks gave her the perfect excuse , as no blame could possibly be attributed to her . |
| 10 | Du Maurier 's atmospheric and often sinister novels and stories made her a worldwide bestseller , while she herself remained reclusive and deeply private . |
| 11 | Two window-cleaners threw her a cheerful obscenity , but she took no notice . |
| 12 | Once she had been attractive , with a good figure : now she was painfully thin and her sharp features gave her a pinched look . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Jonas gave her an old-fashioned look . |
| 15 | Family connections gave her an inside view of Oxford 's local government , and hers is the best account of it in all the surveys . |
| 16 | Her black suede-look high-heels put her a good three inches taller than me and a grey checked suit and crisp white shirt offset with a thin red bow tie , and the fake leather document wallet she clutched , gave her a professional air . |
| 17 | From slang to puns to points of conflict , the end result is something like homeboy fashion meets voodoo charm and , back in ‘ 88 , the LA Times gave her a fitting nickname , ‘ East LA 's Ambassador Of Culture ’ . |
| 18 | But she won at their game , splitting the party in 1969 to assert her supremacy over the bosses — and she was vindicated when voters gave her a huge majority . |
| 19 | Dorcas gave her a long , blank look . |
| 20 | Apart from her father and her brother Niall who had come down from the watchtower , she was the tallest person present , and her fine clothes lent her a new self-confidence . |