Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he 'd given her two fivers first . |
| 2 | Ven would love it if , though he 'd given her ample time , she kept him waiting . |
| 3 | The orphanage was where she 'd developed her pert tongue , no doubt about it . |
| 4 | She 'd stripped her senile aunt Lady Illingworth of a fortune . |
| 5 | She 'd hidden her stolen relic at the back of the bedroom cupboard in the pocket of this dress that she hardly ever wore . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm to stay with my friend , you remember , I told you I 'd met her last week ? |
| 7 | The awful discovery that she 'd missed her last period and that , following their night of love and passion she was now probably expecting his baby was making Ross 's silence almost unbearably hard to accept . |
| 8 | She had genuinely meant to facilitate my exit from Dili ; at the time she 'd made her little speech to me she 'd been perfectly sincere . |
| 9 | We played dominoes with an old boy and his wife ; she was eighty , and if you 'd seen her puffing cigarettes and drinking strong ale , you 'd have been as dumbfounded as I was . |
| 10 | She 'd noticed her last night . |
| 11 | She allowed herself a small smile , mostly because he 'd accepted her medical opinion but still had n't guessed she was a doctor . |
| 12 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 13 | I 'd wiped her snotty nose and covered her lewd , spreadeagled indecency . |
| 14 | She 'd had her first transfusions and was preparing to go to the hospital for her next one when world events took over . |
| 15 | Caroline claimed she 'd bathed him , massaged him and that he 'd had her several times dressed in school uniform . |
| 16 | Loops of wiring and cable ran overhead , loosely tacked at intervals to the unpainted ceiling ; it was the kind of Who cares , no-one 'll see it protocol that had applied behind the scenes in the shopping mall where she 'd landed her first Saturday job . |
| 17 | Before she had time to think , she 'd raised her own glass in response and it was only after she 'd sipped her drink that she realised what she 'd done . |
| 18 | The autumn evenings had started to draw in , there was a slight chill in the air , and as Rachel stepped from her car she was glad she 'd worn her thick navy fisherman 's sweater over her jeans . |
| 19 | Still , she had a sneaking hope that as she 'd reached her lowest ebb , the tide might turn . |
| 20 | A voice told her she 'd reached her chosen number . |
| 21 | ‘ It was our agreement , ’ he 'd said , thrusting the cheque at her , and finally she 'd swallowed her stupid pride and admitted to herself that he was right . |
| 22 | He 'd known her eight months — met her , in fact , at a dinner party hosted by Vanessa 's elder brother William — and they had only argued once , but it had been a telling exchange . |
| 23 | She 'd spent her free morning on board the Kestrel , with Penny and Devlin , saying goodbye before they left . |
| 24 | Avril , 49 , who 'd divorced her first husband in 1987 after 20 years of marriage , first met Peter through their local church in Saltburn , near Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | By taking seat 1F on Flight BA4733 she 'd abandoned her regal bearing . |
| 26 | That was a stupid analogy , Masha said , at the same time as Surkov was pointing out that Katya had always glowed when he 'd praised her nice bottom and tits . |
| 27 | Everybody needed to be needed , but she 'd magnified her own need . |
| 28 | She thought it was from her father that she 'd inherited her logical mind and a way with figures . |
| 29 | She 'd imagined herself deeply in love with a man who 'd spun her impossible yarns of riches and position , only to abandon her in the end to shame and ridicule . |
| 30 | She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage . |