Example sentences of "given she a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have given her a helper , and she will need help in keeping Moorlake . |
| 2 | Now she saved her animus largely for the council , which seemed unfair , since it had permitted her to buy for almost nothing the house which her mother had rented and given her a grant for improvements . |
| 3 | Once , she being childishly curious , her father had given her a sip of the tot of rum he had bought to ease her grandfather 's chest . |
| 4 | ‘ It has given her a head start over everyone else and trained her in the art of being able to look after herself . |
| 5 | Her course teacher has given her a reading list , and the library staff are good at helping students with all sorts of interests . |
| 6 | Her mother-in-law had given her a clock similar to one she owned , an old-fashioned clock with a great glass dome over it , that struck the hour with chimes , the quarter hours with little bells . |
| 7 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 8 | He looked drawn now , Ruth thought , and wondered if he had ever given her a thought since Seville . |
| 9 | And then , instead of hiding until the passage was clear , fitzAlan had given her a shove and told her to wait in the last cubicle . |
| 10 | While Elizabeth was in Athens I had given her a proof copy . |
| 11 | There was no danger … he was more frightened of me than I was of him … but that 's not the point … if it had been an old lady … he coulde have given her a heart attack … |
| 12 | for , in her face and in her voice , and in her touch , she gave the assurance that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham 's teachings , and had given her a heart to understand what his heart used to be . |
| 13 | But what she had seen had certainly given her a shock . |
| 14 | She 'd even given her a bed in her own place , brought her in like a waif from the streets in a gesture of stern and unsentimental charity . |
| 15 | Clive had given her a lightning tour of the boat as soon as they arrived , but then he 'd disappeared up on deck to start the engine from the cockpit , leaving her to stow the shopping in the ice-box and cupboards and unpack her bag . |
| 16 | I 've had , I 've had two hundred pounds worth , I 've given her a cheque for two hundred pounds |
| 17 | A list was drawn up of events that had , prior to depression , given her a sense of achievement and pleasure . |
| 18 | She had not before entered the Tower precincts , although its grim-visaged exterior as seen from the river , particularly during the dark days of winter , had frequently given her a sense of foreboding . |
| 19 | It had been an enlightenment , given her a sense of her own power , her own worth … |
| 20 | It had given her a sense of power that was almost ethereal . |
| 21 | You would n't have given her a second glance that evening , amid the florid , the fancy and the flash . |
| 22 | He had just given her a triumph and had got no more reaction than if he had held a door open for her . |
| 23 | She was in fact a magnificent figure of a woman , with no sag or spread ; only , nursing the children had given her a fullness of the breasts which would not lessen , although she turned the little Olivia over to a servant with a feeding-bottle as soon as one could be found . |
| 24 | He had taken her off the streets and given her a home because he was besotted with her ; the home that Sarah 's mother had kept clean and cheerful even when her health was failing . |
| 25 | I 've given her a draught . |
| 26 | So er , he 's given her a sun bed |
| 27 | And , I 'd like to say that er , Diana er er , has been extremely helpful , and I 've given her a bit of he aid , in trying to raise that kind of money . |
| 28 | Said it 's given her a bit more drive again . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Russia 's peaceful acquisition of Georgia in 1801 had given her a foothold south of the Caucasus mountains which seemed to threaten Persian and Turkish interests in the Middle East . |