Example sentences of "[vb past] she a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They found 'er a place near 'er daughter in Kent somewhere . ’
2 I visited her a couple of times in the hospital , and then Mr Browne told me she died .
3 George asked , and drew her a step deeper into the darkness of the hedge .
4 ‘ David did n't like them at all and promised her a clothing allowance , ’ said her friend .
5 He promised her a sight of Arfur this morning .
6 Then husband Simon promised her an action replay if she could lose weight .
7 ' He cast her a look which , she guessed , was calculated to suggest a combination of nostalgia and affection .
8 He cast her a look .
9 Then her original mentor found her a machine to buy .
10 When she was thrown out of her digs he found her a room in Randolph Crescent and to get her on to her feet again paid her rent for a month .
11 She was made to heave the hostel and the SSD found her a flat .
12 At the same time , Michelle also wanted to return to singing and Dennis found her a job backing Leonard Cohen .
13 You know , as she had no family or friends , he was kind enough to pay for her to go to school , and found her a job here with your uncle .
14 The gardener found her a length of binding twine in a shed so that she could learn to skip .
15 I do n't think the boys ever found her an embarrassment .
16 ‘ I phoned her an hour ago , and Grandfather .
17 She said you 'd be the I mean , and family when Wendy and that go and er she they had to with a la carte , oh it cost her a bomb !
18 Cancer cost her an eye when she was a baby and it could reoccur .
19 It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her .
20 The blast had picked her up and dropped her a couple of metres along the ridge .
21 But Guy dropped her a note the next day , inviting her to a reception at the mess .
22 Tsu Ma studied her a moment , then nodded .
23 He studied her a moment , then reached down , shaking her until she woke and turned , looking up at him .
24 He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul .
25 She clearly felt that Joe and I caused her a lot of trouble , and she frequently complained about it .
26 Early in her first premiership it caused her a moment of acute embarrassment .
27 And because her bag was light , with only Miss Gemma Dallam 's brown Chinese satin in it , and her hopes as high as she ever allowed them to be , she smiled at everybody else who came her way , the fishmonger , the old-clothes dealer pushing his cart with its flea-ridden bundles ; the organ-grinder whose emaciated monkey , cowering sadly on his shoulder , always caused her a stab of pain :
28 Once , when I told her a lie about what I was doing , in order to evade hostile questioning , she said , severely , ‘ You 're growing too like your father . ’
29 Er but anyway er an and the address , full address was you see so a about a week I , I , I wrote , you know , to her and told her a bit about myself and er , you know , about , about seeing the programme etcetera and erm I got a letter did I get a letter back ?
30 I told her a cut-down ( but not a Bowdlerized ) version of the story , omitting Toby .
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