Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he offered to buy her a house in Blackpool , her request was for a simple terrace house , similar to the one in which they had spent their early life together . |
| 2 | When a kind and affluent sister-in-law offered to buy her a house in the suburbs of London , she asked , " What will my boys do there ? " |
| 3 | On the days when he used to leave her a note in the morning she knew well enough that there was no good to be hoped for in replying to it . |
| 4 | I must mention one member — Angela ( nee Feetenby ) — for her help to me has been second to none — not only do I congratulate her for that but on your behalf I want to wish her every happiness in her new life — she was married last July to Harry Bell . |
| 5 | Moscow was also offended by the refusal of the Anglo-Americans to give her a share in controlling the German industrial heartland , the Ruhr , which lay in the British zone . |
| 6 | ‘ Any damages are not going to give her a holiday in the Caribbean . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Once a week , Aunt Margaret defied the banging , popping , gangrenous , gas-flaring monster of the bathroom geyser all for Victoria 's sake , to give her a bath in three inches of snot-green , brackish , warmish water , which took ten minutes to trickle from the geyser 's brutish snout into the tub . |
| 9 | My father had managed to get her a job in a friend 's office just off Hatton Garden . |
| 10 | He had invented the idea of the comedy at that moment , and to prove it he had to offer her a joke in evidence . |
| 11 | Suddenly she realized that her phobia was beginning to make her a prisoner in her own home , and that it was about time she sought help in overcoming it . |
| 12 | He hesitated to spoil the mood by being inquisitive , though he wanted so much to gain her confidence ; to make her an ally in the search for the truth — if there was a truth . |