Example sentences of "have [verb] her [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the monk does not tell the wife where the hundred francs have come from , and creates potential trouble for her by telling the husband that he has paid her this sum , the wife in the Shipman 's Tale is quite the opposite of the foolish , deceived creature that Margery is in Dame Sirith . |
| 2 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 3 | Feeling unutterably guilty , she saw he 'd brought her another drink and a fresh hot-water bottle . |
| 4 | His voice was deep and soft with memories , so that she felt her heart dip , then beat crazily as she remembered the last time she 'd been involved in his research , when he 'd kissed her that morning . |
| 5 | Folasade felt she had changed in that having a baby had given her more confidence and put her on a more equal footing with her mother . |
| 6 | You might have given her another stroke . ’ |
| 7 | After missing him so desperately over the last six weeks it was more than she had ever dreamed of to find herself suddenly close to him again , and maybe by the time they reached their destination he would have given her some clue about the way he wanted things to be . |
| 8 | She could have had my right arm if it would have given her any pleasure . |
| 9 | Who could ever have told her that love could be this good ? |
| 10 | A young girl , Alice , would have celebrated her seventeenth birthday today . |
| 11 | Should I have grabbed her this morning ? |
| 12 | It was impossible they could have found her this time . |
| 13 | Seeing Rohan , even fleetingly in a crowd , would simply have caused her more pain , especially at a wedding with all its attendant might-have-beens , she told herself forcefully . |
| 14 | A more generous format would have allowed her more scope . |
| 15 | If she spoke , if once there were the least word , the least crack or fissure , upon which tears and screams could follow , she would have lost her one advantage , her source of ordinary viable life , and would be utterly undone and destroyed . |
| 16 | if that 's not her role , but you 've given her that role . |
| 17 | We 've given her enough time to get blasted out of her skull . ’ |
| 18 | He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive . |
| 19 | Gerry 's mam , God rest her , had given her that vase . |
| 20 | It was a good thing that Edward Morris had given her another order which he had insisted on paying for in advance . |
| 21 | He had n't said anything that had given her any indication that he actually cared for her . |
| 22 | Swan asked Amaranth if Harvey had given her any information about the new motorway . |
| 23 | Lead technician said the training trip had given her more confidence about how to handle the machines . |
| 24 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 25 | If Benjamin had given her nothing else in their life together he had given her this child , and for that Sarah would forgive him anything . |
| 26 | She saw her work laid out there in the garden , all the muscled cold wet harshness of it ; all the labour and the ingrained resistance to working , and she thanked her mother , who had given her this thing . |
| 27 | Anyway , he had given her enough money to have the baby comfortably ; and she had already made up her mind that she was n't going to have it adopted . |
| 28 | It was Mark who had persuaded her to approach the bank for a loan , Mark who had suggested her old friend Linda George , who had graduated in business studies at the same time that Theresa had finished her fashion degree , should join forces with her to organise the commercial side , Mark who had given her enough confidence in herself for her to allow her mother to put up her house as security — something Theresa had fought against even whilst realising there was no other way to secure the loan she needed . |
| 29 | She recognised the gun as one her ex-lover had bought her some time before as a form of self-protection , the court heard . |
| 30 | And she told him all that Irene had told her that morning . |