Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] her [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When Lyddy had gone , Alexandra went to one of her huge wardrobes and from beneath a pile of linen drew out the little morocco volume Aunt Emily had given her the evening of her arrival . |
| 32 | Jack had left her a shamefaced note with no explanation , a humble note . |
| 33 | Beador had lent her a magnificent five-year-old mealy bay gelding , called Fontana . |
| 34 | Anne had given her the parcel to post two days ago and she had completely forgotten all about it . |
| 35 | Juliet had given her a few pointers , but indream Susan found her experience as Vanessa Vail somehow more confidence-building . |
| 36 | Juliet had told her a little about her own adoption , and her search for Elaine , but nothing about her talk to Celia and her great-aunt . |
| 37 | Baptiste Taillé had given her the signal . |
| 38 | I was surprised , but she said Bill had given her a list to be a help with messages . |
| 39 | She moved her limbs away from the valley in the middle of the bed and remembered , with pleasure , that Mr Sargent had promised her a swimming lesson . |
| 40 | When she had finished , she sat down at the kitchen table with the envelope Tracey had given her the night before . |
| 41 | She was so near to tears that her only outlet was to tell the whole sorry tale , including the news that Joanna had given her the day before . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Clive had told her the boat could sleep six quite comfortably when the settees on either side of the drop-leaf dining table were converted into sea-bunks . |
| 44 | Antonietta had given her a blouse which , she noticed with interest , was of superior quality to her own . |
| 45 | Hotspur had promised her a fair deliverance , vouching for the prince no less than for himself , and in his promise she believed as in the mass . |
| 46 | Rufus had called her a waif and Adam had immediately ridiculed this word , said it was a romantic novelist 's word , so they had looked it up in Hilbert 's Shorter Oxford Dictionary and found illuminating things . |
| 47 | Often there would be some drama : Razia , the loudest and most ebullient of Chaman 's chelas would be wringing her hands and weeping because her new boyfriend had gone off to Ajmer or because Chaman had called her a tart or because her pet goat had gone missing ; she always suspected her neighbours were planning to slaughter it . |
| 48 | Fernando had beaten her every time they played so a practice session on her own might be a good idea . |
| 49 | Now at last the successful bowel and liver transplant carried out in America has given her the chance of a normal future . |
| 50 | The Wisharts kept giving her a look but her eyes were closed and she looked very serene and still . |
| 51 | Joyce had made her a mauve embroidered organza frock salvaged as usual from the poor box . |
| 52 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to seeing your brother again , ’ Donna said , sipping the dry martini Alex had given her a few minutes earlier . |
| 53 | Mrs Burrows had made her a red coat with fur on the collar and cuffs and it suited her dark hair and huge brown eyes perfectly . |
| 54 | But if she told them Nina had given her the go-ahead , and Nina discovered the lie , she would be out . |
| 55 | Rory suspected she looked so good because she did n't live here any more ; she lived in London , and Aunt Ilsa had got her a job working for a television company . |
| 56 | No well Sheila 's got her a bottle of gin . |
| 57 | A small , thin tabby , she spent her life trying to work out the central dilemmas of her life — how to get in and out of the house , and why the fat man called Henry tried to kick her every time the two other people in the house were out of the way . |
| 58 | Telling Luke had given her no satisfaction ; there was no feeling of well-being or sweet revenge , just a cold , forlorn emptiness , where once there had been hope . |
| 59 | The temptation to put aside the bitterness and suspicion was great , but , after all , she was here for only one purpose , and now Luke had given her the ideal opportunity to pursue it . |
| 60 | Keeping her voice as detached as possible , she gave her mother a brief — and heavily expurgated — resumé of what Luke had told her the day of their sightseeing trip . |