Example sentences of "her by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SONIA SUTCLIFFE , who was awarded £600,000 in libel damages against Private Eye , gave a ‘ misleading ’ answer in court when she was questioned about a £25,000 loan given to her by a friend , it was alleged in the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 2 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 3 | ( And that was another thing — fancy being told to call her by a name which meant in French not only ‘ stepmother ’ and ‘ mother-in-law ’ , but ‘ beautiful Mama ’ too … . |
| 4 | She had changed into some clothes brought for her by a clerk who had been sent out with a handful of roubles to a nearby shop . |
| 5 | I wondered if , in view of the physical demands being placed on her by a tour on such a large scale , it was necessary to ‘ work out ’ . |
| 6 | The decision to ban Suu Kyi was taken by the Yangon ( Rangoon ) division elections commission after a complaint had been filed against her by a member of the National Unity Party ( NUP ) , the majority of whose members had links with the former ruling Burma Socialist Programme Party . |
| 7 | The brevity forced on her by a pay telephone might possibly be quite useful . |
| 8 | A Kent social worker wishes to consult solicitors about an assault on her by a client two years ago . |
| 9 | Cassie knew that Johnny was now separated from her by a gulf of fifty years . |
| 10 | Maybe , if she could squeeze a mink coat out of Maxie , it would help her towards the membership which always seemed to elude her by a vote or two , a vote strongly influenced , she feared , by Olga Stych . |
| 11 | Madame Bovary has a dog , given to her by a game-keeper whose chest infection has been cured by her husband . |
| 12 | It was snatched from her by a woman without heart or conscience , a woman driven by greed . |
| 13 | The celebrations passed off peacefully amid an unprecedented level of security , although the Queen 's speech was disrupted by Maori hecklers , and a wet T-shirt was thrown at her by a woman who was later charged with disorderly conduct . |
| 14 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |