Example sentences of "[prep] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 2 | ACTRESS Jean Marsh is not flattered by a description of the rose she had named after her for her role as the maid , Rose , in Upstairs Downstairs . |
| 3 | Maurice stared after her for a moment . |
| 4 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 5 | Presumably she bolted the door after her for that was how the police had found it in the morning . |
| 6 | The safety of knowing that at least he was n't after her for her father 's wealth ? |
| 7 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 8 | Nobody had looked after her for years , he had been quite right about that . |
| 9 | That this particular dybbuk has fallen in love — not with Lil , the magnificent , many-talented , shape-shifting demon queen who has lusted after her for millenia — but with one ordinary , down-to-earth , mortal dyke . |
| 10 | Snappy bounded after her for a few yards , then scampered away to follow his mistress . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps you can look after her for five minutes while I go and book the rooms ? ’ |
| 12 | Yeah well he 's been looking after her for , for years ai n't he ? |
| 13 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |
| 14 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 15 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 16 | Maybe her arms , then her legs , her hair , her arms , her fingers , her thumbs till there would be nothing left of her for Gloria to find . |
| 17 | Apart from joining us for the evening meal and when she ran short of pesetas , we saw little of her for the rest of the holiday . |
| 18 | She always did bring the water eventually , and to her cronies Mairi sometimes admitted she was glad to see the back of her for a few hours ; but that never weakened her tongue . |
| 19 | He came from Cambridge , and I have n't heard of her for a number of years . |
| 20 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 21 | I 'd fetch her home , clean her up , straighten her out and take care of her for as long as she 'd let me , but the call of the wild was strong and after a few days of sleeping on the couch , she 'd vanish again . |
| 22 | ‘ Lesley was seriously assaulted facing those dangers in December 1991 but this did not deter her from bravely facing them again and we are very proud of her for that . |
| 23 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 24 | He lay prone on top of her for a few moments then he rolled to one side , panting loudly , his breath slowly returning to normal . |
| 25 | I have hardly thought of her for at least a week ; I am free of the little stabs of pain and the scudding dark clouds which had a habit of appearing from nowhere , uninvited and unexpected . |
| 26 | Shall I get rid of her for you ? ’ |
| 27 | I had the advantage of her for that much unobtrusive study . |
| 28 | Since nothing seemed to be required of her for the present , Robbie thought , it would do no harm to lean back , just for a moment , and allow her heavy eyelids to have their own way . |
| 29 | She just heard footsteps behind her , looked around , and there he was , standing behind her for all the world as though nothing between them had changed . |
| 30 | But the light that filtered through the curtains as she sat up in bed soon convinced her that , unlikely though it seemed , she really had left the discomforts of her hotel behind her for good . |