Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] her [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Judges have occasionally commented on her melanomas but it has never affected her placing in the show ring .
2 He might not love Didi , but he intended to marry her as soon as he had the ring , and he 'd only persuaded her to return to New York to facilitate matters and save a possible clash …
3 He 'd never seen her look like that before , and when he thought of why she looked like that he wanted to throttle her .
4 I 'd never heard her speak like this before .
5 I must have just left her standing on the steps .
6 None of the thoughts that had so oppressed her came into her mind .
7 As for Felipe , he had not asked her to stay in Spain with him .
8 She was charming and gentle and life had not fitted her to cope with the forty assorted females now in her care .
9 Left penniless when her husband dropped dead suddenly one Monday morning as he was putting his horse between the shafts to go to the country on his weekly door-to-door round , her pride had not allowed her to accept for long the charity of the community 's Board of Guardians .
10 What Guido had just told her coincided with Jeff 's story .
11 By handing in her notice , Celia had somehow increased her standing at NCPR .
12 I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her .
13 She recalled with surprise the energy which had yesterday enabled her to race about the house .
14 John 's mother , Maria , who had often earned her living as a seamstress , made the lavish costumes ; the cream-coloured dresses made up in a pinafore smock style reaching just below the knee .
15 His absence had n't prevented her thinking about him , but perhaps she had allowed herself to believe that it would continue indefinitely , hence her shock at seeing him now and the panicky sensation of a shadow falling over her once more , its darkness an almost tangible threat .
16 I had n't seen her sitting on a bench not far from the spot .
17 It had n't stopped her putting on make-up , though , just a touch of eyeshadow and mascara , and a tiny puff of perfume at the base of her throat .
18 And the worst part of it all was that having him there all the time had n't lessened her longing for him by one tiny jot .
19 He had almost made her feel at ease , but her embarrassment was not something she could laugh about .
20 Giovanna had recently taken her shopping among some of the newly reopened antique shops in the city and had persuaded her to buy a pair of small tortoiseshell combs .
21 At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her .
22 The children had never heard her speak to him sharply before .
23 Rhoda had to give up work , and no sickness benefit was available since Ken had never let her succumb to the system and pay national insurance .
24 I have often heard her crying at night .
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