Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [noun sg] the [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 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 4 | — I caught her trying to brush her hair the other day . |
| 5 | 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 . |