Example sentences of "i [verb] her [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could I spare her a bob or two to the end of the week ? |
| 2 | ‘ One day I asked her a question as I was getting on , and she just smacked my face … |
| 3 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 4 | she was smoking like that so I made her a cup of tea took it in and put it on the stool . |
| 5 | I made her a cup of coffee , she went to sleep . |
| 6 | ‘ I met her a couple of times after shows , ’ said one . |
| 7 | I passed her a cup and then perched on the bed with mine . |
| 8 | I passed her the tissues as I always do . |
| 9 | DAYFLOWER a strong finishing fifth in the Newmarket 1000 gns , may find conditions more to her liking at the Curragh tomorrow and I make her the selection for the Irish ‘ 1000 ’ . |
| 10 | I got her a nightdress . |
| 11 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 12 | Erm I got her a couple of games . |
| 13 | I got her a couple of Cindy things and that . |
| 14 | Oh I got her a chocolate factory game . |
| 15 | And I got her a box of Black Magic so that 's her birthday present sorted out so she can eat and drink then ca n't she ! |
| 16 | Oh I got her a card , yeah . |
| 17 | I visited her a couple of times in the hospital , and then Mr Browne told me she died . |
| 18 | ‘ I phoned her an hour ago , and Grandfather . |
| 19 | I told her no messages had been sent and suggested that if Uncle was a businessman — I thought it better not to mention that we already knew he was a multi-millionaire businessman — he might naturally tend to be secretive and that he might also be reluctant to broadcast the fact that he had lost his yacht through what might have been his own fault . |
| 20 | Once , when I told her a lie about what I was doing , in order to evade hostile questioning , she said , severely , ‘ You 're growing too like your father . ’ |
| 21 | I told her a cut-down ( but not a Bowdlerized ) version of the story , omitting Toby . |
| 22 | I told her the story . |
| 23 | I told her the story . |
| 24 | I told her the story . |
| 25 | I told her the story about the wine , that 's all . |
| 26 | That 's when I told her the rest . |
| 27 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 28 | I told her the flat was in too disgusting a state for her to come and visit . |
| 29 | I told her the number straight off . |
| 30 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |