Example sentences of "had [verb] her [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Gerry 's mam , God rest her , had given her that vase . |
| 3 | It was a good thing that Edward Morris had given her another order which he had insisted on paying for in advance . |
| 4 | He had n't said anything that had given her any indication that he actually cared for her . |
| 5 | Swan asked Amaranth if Harvey had given her any information about the new motorway . |
| 6 | Lead technician said the training trip had given her more confidence about how to handle the machines . |
| 7 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She recognised the gun as one her ex-lover had bought her some time before as a form of self-protection , the court heard . |
| 13 | And she told him all that Irene had told her that morning . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry about your father , ’ Ross had told her one morning before leaving for work . |
| 15 | It was the tone of voice , cold , edged , which had reproached her that evening at The Towers , when she had not worn the bracelet . |
| 16 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
| 17 | He had told her that he had wanted her that night at the house , but he needed no words now — his body was evidence enough — and sheets of flame seemed to shoot through her as her arms wound around his neck and she arched against the demanding , hardening muscles . |
| 18 | She remembered Havvie 's last words when he had left her that afternoon , and knew that what he had said was true . |
| 19 | He had been carried along by his wife 's extraordinary power of making decisions , from the time when she had walked into the offices of Glebe and Pargeter , when his old father was alive , and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house . |
| 20 | And although Gramps had left her enough money for just this purpose she 'd been hoping to live cheaply so that she could stay in Ireland for at least a month , see as much of the country as she could . |
| 21 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 22 | He had warned her that desire was all he had to offer her , and he had probably assumed that his warning had hit home . |
| 23 | What she had now was twice what she had suffered before this — a love so very agonising , a love without hope because someone else had the right and the claim to him now and that was why he had kissed her that way — to let her know how hopeless it all was . |
| 24 | Ever since he had spanked her that night in the bungalow at Moascar garrison , she 'd yearned for the cane . |
| 25 | And there , at last , was Alix 's husband Brian : she was glad he had turned up , had not spurned her party , had paid her this respect . |