Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] her [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
| 2 | Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea . |
| 3 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 4 | A NURSE who died of cancer has bequeathed her pony for the use of the terminally ill children she devoted her life to . |
| 5 | A NURSE who died of cancer has bequeathed her pony for the use of the terminally ill children she devoted her life to . |
| 6 | This favourite phrase of hers , meaning uninformed opinion , seemed to underline her contempt for the situation in which I had placed myself : the young , married woman , abdicating intellectual effort , doing nothing but washing and cleaning and caring for her baby . |
| 7 | His wife , Sonia Gandhi , was an Italian-born Christian who had made known her distaste for the political life imposed on her husband ; their son Rahul , 21 , and daughter Priyanka , 19 , were too young even to enter the Lok Sabha . |
| 8 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 9 | A guest at the Los Angeles hotel where the £30,000 video was shot revealed : ‘ Sade kept on having to hold her breath for the scenes in the pool . |
| 10 | Barely managing to hold her breath for the extra few seconds , she hauled herself to the other side of the object first , before surfacing . |
| 11 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 12 | The princess , above , is said to have changed her mind for the sake of her father , Prince Rainier . |
| 13 | A jury has been told that a woman accused of trying to kill her ex-boyfriend for the insurance money had no motive . |
| 14 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 15 | All his life he had sought her pardon for the failure which she either could not or would not spell out for him . |
| 16 | I thought she might add , ‘ And she 's bloody well going to wear it ’ , but my mother had said her piece for the moment . |
| 17 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 18 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
| 19 | She explained how she had continued her search for the murder weapon that afternoon . |
| 20 | The two girls stayed up for hours , and by the end of the evening a date had been arranged for the Paris adventure , and Clarissa had confided her plan for the Saturday afternoon of the visit . |
| 21 | Rosie Barnes 's pretty face , not unlike the young Margaret Thatcher , is etched with disappointment and pain as she hears she has failed to keep her seat for the Liberal Democrats in Greenwich . |
| 22 | When Sheila Sheffield fails to achieve her quota for the quarter , he helps Sheila discover the reasons . |