Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 2 | " To-morrow I 've promised to take Lizzie to see her niece the other side of Bridgeborough , " Sara said quickly , glad of the genuine excuse . |
| 3 | Hari knew it was mostly done to help Craig and yet Edward Morris seemed to like her work a great deal . |
| 4 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 5 | She leant across the car and grasped Maura 's hand , forcing herself to give her daughter a little wink . |
| 6 | Yet Elizabeth had been a widow for over ten years , and her children were very nearly off her hands ; it is quite possible that her brief sojourn in the workhouse was part of an attempt to give her life a new direction and meaning — perhaps she was there as a helper , a visitor , a counsellor to those in need , or even as a missionary spreading the gospel of Christianity in general or that of the Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion in particular . |
| 7 | She passed Mr Bumble the tea-cup , and as he took it , he managed to give her hand a little stroke . |
| 8 | Not only does n't she blink at the mess , she does n't sneak into the kitchen to give her mug an extra wash before the coffee 's poured into it . |
| 9 | — I caught her trying to brush her hair the other day . |
| 10 | Lucille Castineau stared gravely at her reflection in the mirror which , because it was only a small broken sliver , was being held by her maid , Jeanette , who was forced to tilt the glass up and down in an effort to show her mistress the whole dress . |