Example sentences of "give her the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In addition , she knew that ours was the kind of show which would give her the right sort of outlet .
2 Please could you give her the enclosed PC from me when you visit her ?
3 He used the same line with his mother ; for once he did n't give her the real reason .
4 ‘ I 'll go and give her the good news . ’
5 ‘ Speaking of Aunt Maureen , do n't you think we should give her the good news ? ’
6 ‘ Well , I 'll give her the other half-crown out of my pay . ’
7 I handed over my life 's savings and promised that I would give her the other nineteen and six before the year was up .
8 ‘ There 's always this fear she wo n't be able to cope , so you do n't give her the difficult jobs ’ .
9 It was settled that Branson would give her the signed contract at the Roof Gardens , where all the directors of Virgin were meeting for a Christmas dinner .
10 Now she was dead , give her the honourable name , ‘ Mother . ’
11 To help Cinderella catch midnight , give her the Swiss International Watch Company 's £150,000 Grande Complication timepiece .
12 Tease your Mum this Mother 's Day — give her the new Plénitude Contour Regard from L'Oréal , for her ageing eyes !
13 Frequently they give her the exact day they decided life was not worth living , and sometimes even the time of day the decision was made .
14 Her alarmed personal physician Dr Michael Roth was forced to give her the stark warning when she refused to rest up completely .
15 If you lack confidence in your ability to give her the right kind of help and comfort , but really want to do so , you have nothing to fear , because this probably means that you are much better equipped for the task than you imagine .
16 There was no doctor , no magic seer to give her the golden branch and lead her into the underworld , only yet another pretty young woman , the radiological technician .
17 He was not free to give her the untrammelled life that she deserved .
18 The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Kenneth Clarke tells the programme how she once asked : ‘ Why do I have to do everything in this Government ? ’ and no-one had the nerve to give her the obvious answer — she did n't have to do everything .
19 The district nurse comes to give her the monthly vitamin injections for her anaemia — takes about ten seconds and she 's gone .
20 The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ?
21 He was n't in the sitting-room , so , interested in the house in spite of herself , she started to explore , his absence giving her the perfect right to do so .
22 Unlike many of the top jockeys , he found time to talk to Kelly without giving her the immediate impression that he wanted to sleep with her , although if his reputation was only half true then he did .
23 ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’
24 She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out .
25 Giving her the full length of the halter , he allowed her down to the bank , to drink her fill from the water .
26 She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did .
27 She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn .
28 She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey .
29 It would be typical of Jacqui 's naivety to believe that she was dealing with an honest man who had given her the only copies in existence .
30 Mrs Bradford had given her the complete day off for her father 's funeral and she did n't have to be back at the house in Newcastle Place until six o'clock .
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