Example sentences of "give she the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In addition , she knew that ours was the kind of show which would give her the right sort of outlet .
2 Please could you give her the enclosed PC from me when you visit her ?
3 He used the same line with his mother ; for once he did n't give her the real reason .
4 ‘ I 'll go and give her the good news . ’
5 ‘ Speaking of Aunt Maureen , do n't you think we should give her the good news ? ’
6 Though it would be a great personal sadness to have to do it , it would nevertheless give her the greatest satisfaction to see Kirsty settled in a warm and loving family .
7 ‘ Well , I 'll give her the other half-crown out of my pay . ’
8 I it 's she will type it in as two , and then you will give her the next draft and then two and then the next draft and then two , I mean there 's no confusion there for her .
9 ‘ There 's always this fear she wo n't be able to cope , so you do n't give her the difficult jobs ’ .
10 It was settled that Branson would give her the signed contract at the Roof Gardens , where all the directors of Virgin were meeting for a Christmas dinner .
11 The British Government lifted red tape restrictions so that a charity here could fly in the eight-month-old girl , and give her the best chance of survival .
12 Now she was dead , give her the honourable name , ‘ Mother . ’
13 No she bought a second lo a second twenty lot of twenty and I give her the first lot back probably .
14 Tease your Mum this Mother 's Day — give her the new Plénitude Contour Regard from L'Oréal , for her ageing eyes !
15 Frequently they give her the exact day they decided life was not worth living , and sometimes even the time of day the decision was made .
16 Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win .
17 Her alarmed personal physician Dr Michael Roth was forced to give her the stark warning when she refused to rest up completely .
18 If you lack confidence in your ability to give her the right kind of help and comfort , but really want to do so , you have nothing to fear , because this probably means that you are much better equipped for the task than you imagine .
19 The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure .
20 There was no doctor , no magic seer to give her the golden branch and lead her into the underworld , only yet another pretty young woman , the radiological technician .
21 He was not free to give her the untrammelled life that she deserved .
22 The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Kenneth Clarke tells the programme how she once asked : ‘ Why do I have to do everything in this Government ? ’ and no-one had the nerve to give her the obvious answer — she did n't have to do everything .
23 The district nurse comes to give her the monthly vitamin injections for her anaemia — takes about ten seconds and she 's gone .
24 The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ?
25 When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her .
26 He was n't in the sitting-room , so , interested in the house in spite of herself , she started to explore , his absence giving her the perfect right to do so .
27 Unlike many of the top jockeys , he found time to talk to Kelly without giving her the immediate impression that he wanted to sleep with her , although if his reputation was only half true then he did .
28 She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out .
29 ’ One of them once said the only thing that came close to giving her the same thrill she got from shoplifting was having sex in a public place — you know it 's wrong and you might be caught , but it feels great , ’ adds Liz .
30 Both of them were breathing hard , such a hurry and scramble of lips , hands , such a heat inside and between them , he stuffed one small breast into his mouth and then the other , giving her the same churn of astonished guilty pleasure as when she lay on her bed in the afternoons and read the forbidden books she smuggled home from the library .
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