Example sentences of "give her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her Uncle Wong , her grandmother 's friend , who was now under a shadow so deep that without being told , Maggie knew she must not mention his name , her beloved Uncle Wong had given her Fenna . |
| 2 | For he had given her gifts beyond dreaming . |
| 3 | Fenna had given her freedom and power and joy ; she would not call those things illusions , because without them there was nothing worth having in her life . |
| 4 | Still , Angie can fix the Treasury on this one , given her boyfriend , ca n't she ? |
| 5 | Helen , having once given her word , was uneasy about their infrequent meetings and pleaded with him to support her resolve : |
| 6 | Tonight she was smiling as she stared up at the screen , and Buddie had given her money . |
| 7 | Dannii has already given her name to a range of clothes . |
| 8 | Books about Mary the Woman — almost , one feels , Mary the little woman ( if only metaphorically , given her physical size ) ; books about her marriages , at the level of personal relationships ; books about her Italian secretary Rizzio , Darnley and the Casket Letters ; all these make her personality , whether good or evil , an end in itself . |
| 9 | She had given her kisses to a clown , he wrote , and was much gratified when MacBride turned out to be a drunken bully . |
| 10 | After that , Anne became a novelist , won the Booker and the Whitbread in the same year with different books , and was given her own television show . |
| 11 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 12 | The dry clothes had given her strength . |
| 13 | I sent her Nit Ac LM1 and did n't hear anything for a year when she rang up with a headache — it turned out that the anal fissure had cleared quickly and she felt she had been miraculously well given her sister had been murdered 12mths previously and she 'd had 4 months leave of absence from work to deal with the aftermath which had involved her nephew joining the family . |
| 14 | The baby , a girl , was given her mother 's name : Jeanne Hébuterne . |
| 15 | Her great good fortune has been an electoral system that has given her power on a minority vote . |
| 16 | And she had asked him what would have happened to her if she had not had these good friends who had come to her aid and given her shelter , and when , in the form of an excuse , his answer had been , did n't she realize that he was distracted ? she had come back with , did n't he realize he had almost killed a man , that he was lucky he was n't in gaol now answering a charge of murder ? |
| 17 | They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon . |
| 18 | When she was rescued by the local authorities and given her present welfare flat , she asked that her address be kept a secret . |
| 19 | Her unique status had given her unusual confidence for a Tiller . |
| 20 | The greatest unfairness , she thought , was that the women who could afford to buy the beautiful clothes simply did not do them justice , while she , who showed them off so well , had to save for weeks , even given her staff discount , for the most modestly priced item . |
| 21 | It was all reasonably clean , and a smell of cooking reminded Sarah that she had n't eaten since early morning when Daniel 's landlady had given her breakfast . |
| 22 | So Nahum Morey had given her children . |
| 23 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 24 | Red and Bibi have given her hell . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ She 's given her notice to leave , taken a living-in job in Skipton . |
| 26 | She was paid four shillings a week and given her midday meal . |
| 27 | The Lord has given her Psalm 91 and Psalm 121 to hold on to and she knows that He is in control of the situation . |
| 28 | Benny was glad that her father would be there for the cake , because that was when she might be given her present . |
| 29 | The doctor had come and given her two tablets to take , he had said there was n't a thing wrong with he that would n't be wrong with any red-blooded girl who had seen a fatal accident . |
| 30 | After a consultation , colour is applied and the client is given her own clock to time the development . |