Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She had not the spirit to stand up for her own mother . |
| 2 | One wonders just how furious : last week , back in Moscow to see her three-year-old son between performances , Semenyaka was having difficulties getting a visa to come back for her next role here , Cinderella , in only three weeks ' time . |
| 3 | When it dawned on her that she would have to earn her own living , she made up her mind to work for a diploma and then teach , and do some book-illustrating while she cast about for her real métier . |
| 4 | But what she forgot as she jogged on the spot was that even though time might have stood still for her , it has moved on for her 31-year-old husband Slim Jim McDonald . |
| 5 | The gardener they had taken on also came in for her unspoken dissatisfaction . |
| 6 | Even in her grief she could still look out for her remaining children . |
| 7 | It was to salve her conscience , she thought , and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer . |
| 8 | On Tuesday , the Queen was wheeled out for her first-ever appearance at the European Parliament to give what the Guardian wittily described as the ‘ royal oui ’ to the EC . |
| 9 | Had she got him marked out for her vicious games for life ? |
| 10 | Even if she fails to turn up for her next set of lectures there is nothing we can do but not pay her . |
| 11 | Standing awkwardly on one leg , she looked round for her other shoe and could only watch in helpless despair as she saw it slowly sink . |
| 12 | SCREEN beauty Daryl Hannah has signed up for her biggest role yet . |
| 13 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 14 | And Mike ; always so good to her , teasing her , making her feel special , as though he had tried to make up for her real father 's dying when she was a baby ; not wanting her to feel left out when Martin had been born . |
| 15 | Comfort 's anguished determination to make up for her earlier coldness made her far more interfering than Annunziata , whose calm gentleness provided the only moments of real respite for Julia . |