Example sentences of "they [verb] her [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now .
2 They made her a slave labourer .
3 They made her a cup of coffee .
4 They accompany her every entrance .
5 They lend her the viability of shared experience , giving her the confidence to shrug her shoulders when she feels like it .
6 As they showed her the house , Rose seemed to enter completely into the terrible awareness of Moran now sitting in the car chair meditatively rotating his thumbs about one another .
7 She had to ring , Yorkshire , they give her the phone number to .
8 They called her a forewoman you see .
9 They sent her a demo tape and a lengthy letter .
10 They offered her a flat in the Stonebridge estate , Wembley , which she refused on health grounds .
11 They offered her a flat in the Stonebridge estate , Wembley , which she refused on health grounds .
12 When Josè , the Portuguese housekeeper whom they had promoted to become a shop manager , had nowhere to live , they bought her a house , oversaw the extensive repairs and stocked it with furniture .
13 When he made one of his rare , shapely jokes , they gave her a flash of great pleasure — a passing reassurance that life was good after all — and then an experience of despair and palsy .
14 They gave her a jug of barley water and a clean glass .
15 Instead they gave her a letter saying that the baby was in perfect health .
16 Then they gave her a battery of psych-tests that plugged straight into her nervous system ; though she fought against it , they strapped her down and there was nothing she could hide , no way to stop the relentless tide of data and attitudes they programmed into her , or the probing of her mental set .
17 When she got to the hospital , they gave her an appointment to see a gynaecologist in six weeks time .
18 Then she was sick , they gave her an injection , they would n't let her-it went to pieces , black fragmented with pain .
19 They gave her the name Sadie because she had such sad eyes .
20 They phone her every day , of course , and I 'm sure it wo n't be long before the whole family is reunited once again . ’
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