Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 2 | I stopped to find her a name . |
| 3 | She 'd found her wallet of credit cards and flourished it under his nose , every fibre of her being poised to defy him if he tried to deny her the right to pay . |
| 4 | But as she bent to give her the bowl , she lowered her voice , and whispered in Rosa 's ear , ‘ Be careful , you 're not a child any more , you must n't forget that . |
| 5 | Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness . |
| 6 | Changez , being at heart a traditional Muslim , explained the teachings of the Koran on this subject to her , and then , when words were not sufficient to convince her , he tried to give her a whack . |
| 7 | The man tried to give her a lift and would n't take no for an answer . |
| 8 | Preston stumbled out of bed and tried to give her a hug , but she fought him off as if it was an attack . |
| 9 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 10 | Finally her father stopped belting her every weekend . |
| 11 | A small , thin tabby , she spent her life trying to work out the central dilemmas of her life — how to get in and out of the house , and why the fat man called Henry tried to kick her every time the two other people in the house were out of the way . |
| 12 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
| 13 | He 'd given her a string of cultured pearls as a wedding present . |
| 14 | She was already dutiful and anxious to please him , and she looked so pretty in a dress of sprigged cotton he 'd given her the money to buy for the wedding . |
| 15 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 16 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 17 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |
| 18 | And she went away and produced that document after we 'd given her the brief . |
| 19 | He reminded her of the day he 'd given her the locket and ring . ’ |
| 20 | He 'd taught her the tricks of his trade until by her own account she was better at it than he was . |
| 21 | At one stage in her career , it had seemed you could n't open up a rock paper or one of the tabloids without seeing her tumbling golden mane and her lazy catlike smile captured by one of the many photographers who seemed to dog her every step . |
| 22 | He came to see her every evening and asked her to recount the events of that day . |
| 23 | She ignored that and asked him whether he 'd booked her a seat with us on the flight south from Lima . |
| 24 | Cos I 'd got her a tube of toothpaste . |
| 25 | By the time I 'd had her a fortnight , and she was about five weeks old , her trust in me was growing . |
| 26 | Oddly enough , it even , while it lasted , seemed to give her a sense of purpose in life . |
| 27 | The fact that she and Hugh happened to fit the bill seemed to give her every opportunity for finding out . |
| 28 | He 'd called her a Burrows whore , a soulless hag . |
| 29 | She did not care that he 'd called her a whore . |
| 30 | His ice-blue eyes seemed to touch her every feature , one by one . |