Example sentences of "[noun] her [noun] [verb] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the money her father had given her , Ellie , with the necessary help of Madame Gautier , had chosen and bought for herself her very first evening gown , a simply stunning and practically backless dress fashioned out of moire in the new fashionable colour of rose-opaline . |
| 2 | On the day when Katherine came home to find the easel her father had given her collapsed on the floor and the careful copy she had been making of Vermeer 's ‘ Girl with a Mandolin' splattered with red paint , she made her decision . |
| 3 | Harriet pushed back the cuff of her ski jacket and glanced at her watch — the clear faced leather-strapped Patek Philippe man 's watch that she always wore in preference to the elegant Cartier her father had given her , unless of course circumstances forced her into an evening gown . |
| 4 | He was their only guest and of course her father had given him the ‘ big room ’ — used by the landlord himself in the winter . |
| 5 | She had run away with him to London where she had borne him a daughter , naming her Topaz after a jewel her lover had given her . |
| 6 | As they drove out of town , along the quiet roads to the country , it became clear to Juliet that the brandy and soda her father had given him had n't been Nigel 's first drink of the evening . |
| 7 | He told Mrs Edwards her son had given his life in the service of humanity and his sacrifice had not been in vain . |
| 8 | She gave me the names of all her friends and said how proud she was of the life her father had given her . |
| 9 | It had been just after Christmas ; she had worn a new pair of fur mittens her sister had given her . |
| 10 | The large oval locket that had been an eighteenth-birthday present from her aunt , a gold bracelet , a pair of drop earrings and — she breathed a sigh of relief — her mother 's clip were still in the sandalwood box her parents had given her . |
| 11 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 12 | She dialled the number her husband had given her , which belonged to one of his old school friends , a television producer . |
| 13 | Then her eyes fell briefly on the painting her grandmother had given her . |
| 14 | Alexandra stole a look at her grandmother , beautiful celebrated Charlotte Bewick with her wine-red hair full of the diamonds her husband had given her , dressed in a flowing thing of cream silk and wrapped in furs . |