Example sentences of "she [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Government lifted red tape restrictions so that a charity here could fly in the eight-month-old girl , and give her the best chance of survival . |
| 2 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 3 | Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win . |
| 4 | Doctors said it would take her the best part of a year to recover . |
| 5 | I gave her the best books |
| 6 | Esther Allan dusted off the music and taught her the best songs from Sugar and Spite . |
| 7 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 8 | He skipped along the corridors and went to see Matron to tell her the good news . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll go and give her the good news . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Speaking of Aunt Maureen , do n't you think we should give her the good news ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But why must you go away , just when Corrie 's leaving me ? ’ her mother had asked when she 'd told her she had fixed up a job as a nanny with a family in the north which would give her a better chance of training as nursery nurse . |
| 12 | Now at that point , when she received the letter and read the policy , erm we could have given her a better cover if it applied to that particular vehicle . |
| 13 | It might well give her a better perspective on things if she could get right away for a short time . |
| 14 | That made her a good decade younger than he was , but she looked it . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't try to give her a good character , Mrs Fairfax , ’ said Mr Rochester sternly . |
| 16 | I offered her a good price but she was n't selling . |
| 17 | And I was with her till I left her somewhere in Southampton , I 'd been in her a good while too . |
| 18 | ‘ Had to give her a good talking to . ’ |
| 19 | I can not quite remember the title of the Ballet , but Miss Margot Fonteyn was on her way up , we were quite sure , and that redhead Moira Shearer was running her a good second . |
| 20 | I get hold of her shoulders and give her a good shake . |
| 21 | One of my sisters got quite hysterical when I did it to her , so Mum had to give her a good shaking ! |
| 22 | I wished her a good rest . |
| 23 | Doubtless he gave her a good dowry when she married another burgess , John Kempe . |
| 24 | ‘ Directly I 've stripped her you can give her a good sanding . |
| 25 | Annie was nursed back to full health by the kind nuns who adopted her and they were able to give her a good education . |
| 26 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 27 | Laura seated herself on the bed and Rex gave her a good sniff . |
| 28 | She looked at Gay , who was an only child too , but who had nobody to give her a good time , and then her glance travelled to Breeze , who had just admitted in her light-hearted fashion that she had no idea of what the future would hold for her . |
| 29 | If you have a really warm relationship with your elderly parent and the two of you communicate well , you may also be able to help her a good deal by occasional discussions on attitudes generally in bereavement and the more positive aspects of what has been such a tragic and painful experience for her ; steering her tenderly towards the realisation that what she now has is not only what Dylan Thomas 's wife described as ‘ left-over life to kill ’ , but left-over love to give , which is a very different thing . |
| 30 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |