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Example sentences for "gave her"

  • I gave her none, though I would have given her the King's treasury had she wished for it.

  • It gave her time to collect her thoughts and summon all her fortitude for the coming interview.

  • But I claimed her heart as one authorized to take it, and if I could not marry her myself I claimed the right to give her to whomsoever I pleased, and I gave her to you, Le Gardeur, but you would not accept the sweetest girl in New France!

  • I cursed her silently, but I gave her milk.

  • It was a happy feature in Mrs Gamp's twofold profession, that it gave her an interest in everything that was young as well as in everything that was old.

  • Was this good person paid for the trouble we gave her?

  • If, then, its origin is not that above alleged, what is its origin?

  • He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite a start.

  • She always said that twelve funerals gave her a new dress.

  • He knew she wanted to speak of Griffiths, but he gave her no opportunity.

  • He gave her a rough push, but she, still smiling away and ducking her pretty head as some animal might that is afraid of a beating, held him up with all the strength a little plump blonde can command.

  • But at that very moment a woman who was entering the room gave her a shock of surprise.

  • Thereupon Nana kissed the lady's maid and, wishing to show her she wasn't vexed, gave her a dress she had worn three times.

  • Her broad back and long arms gave her an appearance of great strength.

  • He gave her one of his keen looks, nodded: "I like you.

  • Burlingham remained equable, neither hopeful nor gloomy; he made her feel that he was strong, and it gave her strength.

  • He gave her a brazen look, uttered a laugh that was like the flinging out of a bucket of filth.

  • This, with her tan stockings and tan slippers and the radiant youth of her face, gave her a look of utter cleanness and freshness that was exceedingly good to see.

  • She recalled that as she hurried through the office from the dining-room he had a queer shifting expression, gave her a wheedling, cringing good morning not at all in keeping with the character he had shown the night before.

  • A few days after his latest bereavement, he saw a fine, plump young female; and she so filled his eye that he gave her no rest until she permitted his caresses, and carried the first twig to the wild rose.

  • He alighted beside her, dropped into her beak a morsel of food, gave her a kiss to aid digestion, caressingly ran his beak the length of her wing quills, and flew to the dogwood.

  • Always on leaving he gave her a tender little peck and ran his beak the length of her wing--a characteristic caress that he delighted to bestow on her.

  • She knew Anthony Cardew had never forgiven her and would never like her, but he gave her, now and then, the tribute of a grudging admiration.

  • It gave her a little pang, too; he looked so clean and sane and normal, so much a part of her old life.

  • It gave her a moment to summon her scattered wits, to decide on a plan of action.

  • She had, on turning, a swift picture of Grayson, taking up his stand in the hall, and it gave her a sense of comfort.

  • He gave her a sense of power, over him and over evil.

  • I had always known that she was fond of her cheap little watch, which he gave her, I think, on the day I dropped the letter, but why kiss it in the street?

  • I like to think that I gave her some of the things to carry.

  • I should love to give you a thimble," Peter said gravely, so he gave her one.

  • He gave her quite a number of thimbles, and then a delightful idea came into his head!

  • You take me too literally; I only mean that in your place I would not be at the trouble of keeping any terms with them.

  • The Comité sent someone to listen to her.

  • Without showing himself unfriendly, he gave her no opportunity to determine how far they would go with each other.

  • She made up her mind to punish him, but he gave her no chance.

  • So he gave her an account of his trial and its details, told her how he had been convicted, and how Colonel Onate had fought warily to get the sentence of execution postponed in order to give their friends a chance to rescue them.

  • Poor Catherine was conscious of her freshness; it gave her a feeling about the future which rather added to the weight upon her mind.

  • Whenever he addressed her he gave her pleasure; but she had to cut her pleasure out of the piece, as it were.

  • It gave her pleasure, somehow, to note this fact.

  • But it gave her pleasure--the whole thing.

  • But he gave her none, and she grew nervous.

  • At those rather ominous words Lady Casterley gave her a sharp glance.

  • It gave her a real malicious pleasure to feel the perplexity beneath her father's dignified exterior.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always accompanied; eastern corner; gave away; gave birth; gave chase; gave command; gave evidence; gave expression; gave him; gave himself; gave his; gave notice; gave occasion; gave orders; gave place; gave some; gave thee; gave them; gave vent; gave way; hath brought; light artillery; small rock; warm situation; where their; wished them