Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Her first professional job was before I was born , and she has taught me a lot . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She very kindly invited me to lunch and she has given me a lot of useful information . ’ |
| 3 | She 'd given me a shot to kill the pain and it was making me drowsy . |
| 4 | Then , if she 'd given him a good time and he was a collaborator , he might not report her . |
| 5 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 6 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 7 | This was a great pose , she 'd practised it a lot with the mirror . |
| 8 | She 'd promised me a recipe . ’ |
| 9 | All right , so she 'd used him a little , but this was all way out of proportion . |
| 10 | No , she 'd left him a reassuring note . |
| 11 | Gabriel had collected Steve from school and brought him home , where she had cooked him a meal . |
| 12 | She thought she had given him a very tricky word , one that he would n't yet have learned , and she was peeved that he had succeeded . |
| 13 | When her mother-in-law got off the tram , Anna , waving to her , felt glad she had given her a bar of Zoya 's soap . |
| 14 | She had given her a tiny dose of medicine just before the explosion , and now Julia closed her eyes . |
| 15 | She had run away with him to London where she had borne him a daughter , naming her Topaz after a jewel her lover had given her . |
| 16 | It did not seem to matter that she had borne him a son . |
| 17 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 18 | For the first time she had met him a flush darkened the back of his neck . |
| 19 | She had made her a cool and sweet-smelling bed of grasses inside a circle of powder to keep away ants and other insects . |
| 20 | She had made it a habit never to leave medicines lying about since the time she found Emma sucking a Panadol , thinking it was a mint , but thankfully then having the sense to spit it out when she found it was n't . |
| 21 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 22 | She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it . |
| 23 | All the same , if it happened that David made her with child , she would bear the child proudly , and be glad that she had brought him a degree of happiness . |
| 24 | But he had not even asked — she had found him a little unnerving . |
| 25 | She had found him a bit too inclined to enthuse , like a tourist visiting some primitive culture , while Polly was ‘ tense ’ . |
| 26 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 27 | Nigel had invited his teacher 's attention and in turn she had offered him a chance to try to tell her what he meant by ‘ balance ’ . |
| 28 | She had thought it a foolproof notion , but had slipped up on detail , like so many . |
| 29 | Acting as his agent , she had got him a commission to score a 15-minute TV documentary about autumn leaves . |
| 30 | She had told him a tale , looking slyly at him while she played with his left hand . |