Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked her that night , when the children were in bed . |
| 2 | I made her some coffee and she sat and watched while Doone picked a piece of paper out of his breast pocket and handed it to Sam . |
| 3 | I met her one day when she was coming out of the hairdresser 's and I 'd been in to make an appointment for Caroline . |
| 4 | And I got her two strips of Elastaplast . |
| 5 | I told you we tal I talked , I , I disturbed her all day long . |
| 6 | Cos I phoned her this morning . |
| 7 | ‘ I phoned her this morning . ’ |
| 8 | I told her that story . |
| 9 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
| 10 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 11 | Why do you think I told her those stories , the other night , about demons getting their comeuppances ? |
| 12 | I told her some Cliff Top stuff , about my sort of overprotective mother and my absent father . |
| 13 | When I told her this afternoon that I was gon na be away till maybe tomorrow morning I do n't know what I expected . |
| 14 | Yeah well I told her this morning . |
| 15 | She were laughing when I showed her that letter I got , cos she got one the same morning , , she said , and it said , and you can go round and talk to him . |
| 16 | I offered her more tequila , leaning across Melanie to do so . |
| 17 | Gabriel went on , ‘ And then I saw her that night , remember ? |
| 18 | Because I saw her predicted grade card |
| 19 | Mind you I saw her two day 's ago and she looked absolutely fit as a fiddle so I said I think it strikes quickly and |
| 20 | I saw her one evening , quite a bit later . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I saw her this morning when she came . ’ |
| 22 | When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills . |
| 23 | I took her some Loukoumi and chocolates , and she said , ‘ Now that is a sensible present . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You know , I gave her that room to herself when she came to us , because I thought it would be better , and she treated me like a servant — well , you saw , did n't you ? — and when she 'd got all the fun and sense of power out of that little game she started coming down with us . |
| 25 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |
| 26 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
| 27 | Next I gave her some lavender essence to put in the bath ( a tin bath in front of the kitchen range ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Apparently , her cat had very bad plaque on its teeth and she was really concerned , so I gave her some advice and Amy has been in touch ever since . |
| 29 | I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard . |
| 30 | Brenda , I adore it , it 's me all over so the bathroom I had endless trouble , as you know , with Shirley I had to buy stuff and Shirley came in and I gave her little presents of this and that and helped her with cooking meals for her she re-grouted practically my bath tiles and my en suite tiles because we thought water was going through the wall , and it was and then I had to replace the where you take the plug out in the bath , I forget what you call that , the trap |