Example sentences of "her a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It might well give her a better perspective on things if she could get right away for a short time . |
| 4 | That made her a good decade younger than he was , but she looked it . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't try to give her a good character , Mrs Fairfax , ’ said Mr Rochester sternly . |
| 6 | I offered her a good price but she was n't selling . |
| 7 | And I was with her till I left her somewhere in Southampton , I 'd been in her a good while too . |
| 8 | ‘ Had to give her a good talking to . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I get hold of her shoulders and give her a good shake . |
| 11 | One of my sisters got quite hysterical when I did it to her , so Mum had to give her a good shaking ! |
| 12 | I wished her a good rest . |
| 13 | Doubtless he gave her a good dowry when she married another burgess , John Kempe . |
| 14 | ‘ Directly I 've stripped her you can give her a good sanding . |
| 15 | Annie was nursed back to full health by the kind nuns who adopted her and they were able to give her a good education . |
| 16 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 17 | Laura seated herself on the bed and Rex gave her a good sniff . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Sally-Anne had never before understood the necessity to be absolutely precise in everything she did , and Matey 's training , designed to make her a good maid , was beginning to affect her habits in every other part of her life . |
| 22 | In short , they became friends , and as time passed Diana thought her a good match for her errant brother-in-law . |
| 23 | Laura asked the farm manager , Dai Davies , to find her a good Jersey milker and taught herself how to milk the cow . |