Example sentences of "and [vb pp] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no evidence of actual impropriety , you see , but Puddephat admitted he 'd been friendly with the girl and given her extra coaching . |
| 2 | When she was rescued by the local authorities and given her present welfare flat , she asked that her address be kept a secret . |
| 3 | The doctor had come and given her two tablets to take , he had said there was n't a thing wrong with he that would n't be wrong with any red-blooded girl who had seen a fatal accident . |
| 4 | Their father had always indulged her every whim , and she was so pretty that all her life she had been admired and given her own way . |
| 5 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 6 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 7 | Travis dumped the firewood he had collected and eyed her dishevelled figure with a vague twist of his lips . |
| 8 | She has dismissed D. [ Dedo ] and transferred her virgin heart to P. , who lives close by [ Alfredo Pina , an Italian sculptor ] . |
| 9 | She should have realised the truth when she had met her mother and seen her wretched home . |
| 10 | His widow Sheila said last night she had hoped and prayed her missing husband would be found alive . |
| 11 | No wonder the girl had stared at her and drawn her own conclusions . |
| 12 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 13 | While the rest of the tribe were sleeping , She-Who-Is-Alone walked quietly to the hill where the Great Spirits had spoken and offered her beloved doll as a sacrifice . |
| 14 | So she had smiled and squashed her own reservations . |
| 15 | And that morning 's takings had trebled and brought her new custom , for he had always seen to it that he was shod well and had good small clothes and shirts . |
| 16 | They had advised her to have the baby adopted , told her she 'd not be able to earn a living for them both , but she 'd been willful and gone her own way . |
| 17 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 18 | It was just above knee-length and fitted her slender curves perfectly . |
| 19 | She had hugged herself tightly then against the nausea she always felt when Rob was flying and begun her desperate bargaining with God . |
| 20 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |