Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had twisted and turned , struggling to free herself to no avail , until a well-aimed kick had won her a temporary respite . |
| 2 | And the law of probability seemed , for once , to have slipped up , and to have permitted her a striking piece of good luck . |
| 3 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 4 | The record company prepared her an exhaustive schedule which made it impossible for her to give Fletch the attention he deserved so , reluctantly , she gave him to friends . |
| 5 | Beador had lent her a magnificent five-year-old mealy bay gelding , called Fontana . |
| 6 | Ursula Lane believes her 29-times driving test marathon has made her a safer driver than some of the ‘ young Kings of the Road ’ who pass at the first attempt . |
| 7 | Her ability to capture the humour which is too often missing in children 's material has made her a firm favourite with children 's book publishers alike . |
| 8 | Her ability to capture the humour which is too often missing in children 's material has made her a firm favourite with children 's book publishers alike . |
| 9 | ‘ Is that necessary ? ’ asked his wife , who had all the instincts that would , a century ago , have made her a successful workhouse mistress . |
| 10 | Mrs Burrows had made her a red coat with fur on the collar and cuffs and it suited her dark hair and huge brown eyes perfectly . |
| 11 | Her sophisticated turnout and stylish overdressing had made her a minor legend in this remote northern district . |
| 12 | But her belief that all women , regardless of wealth , should be offered clothes that were artistic and beautiful , not brash , sexually offensive or uncomfortable , would have made her a worthy member of most of the nineteenth-century dress reform movements . |
| 13 | Trying to be positive about her inability so far to have a child , Wendy says she tells herself that the whole experience has made her a stronger person . |
| 14 | No she does n't want any fuss , Con 's made her a big cake I believe a very nice cake Eileen said |
| 15 | He paused , then added dispassionately , ‘ Had she been born a man , those traits would have made her an excellent ruler . ’ |
| 16 | A long , indented coastline , with many harbours on both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , gave her easy access to the oceans and had made her the economic centre of the world . |
| 17 | His wife , blind for many years , was a pianist for the Glasgow Orpheus Choir and William Robb had built her a complete organ which occupied one wall of a room in their home in Singer 's Buildings . |
| 18 | Indeed the London County Council had built her a special unit at Queen Mary 's Hospital Carshalton . |
| 19 | She was a nurse at a hospital on the other side of the village , and Killion had met her the previous evening by simply walking into the hospital and asking the first girl he saw if she would come out with him . |
| 20 | Then Finn had come up , grim , silent and dripping blood , wordlessly shown her the dreadful cut and gone upstairs to his sister for a bandage . |
| 21 | A niece of Miss Vine 's bought her a new budgerigar . |
| 22 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 23 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |
| 24 | Was it love or simply gratitude because he had offered her a safe haven ? |
| 25 | ‘ She agreed eight o'clock when I spoke to her yesterday , after I 'd offered her every other hour of the day . |
| 26 | He had offered her the front seat for the last leg , but she had turned it down . |
| 27 | She had n't become a whore because she wanted to ; it was because the money of perverted old men had offered her an easy way out of poverty — those same old men who would clamour for the investigation to be dropped . |
| 28 | She had refused — even though it would have offered her an easy way out , and then circumstances had intervened and she had ended in the brothels in the notorious Monto . |
| 29 | He had told her the one thing of importance , even if nothing else made any sense . |
| 30 | Lisa felt the cold finger of panic momentarily touch her , just as it had when , over the phone earlier , the girl from the claims department had told her the awful truth . |