Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The gardener they had taken on also came in for her unspoken dissatisfaction .
4 Even in her grief she could still look out for her remaining children .
5 It was to salve her conscience , she thought , and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer .
6 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 .
7 Had she got him marked out for her vicious games for life ?
8 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 .
9 Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk .
10 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 .
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