Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun sg] [adv] for the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He studied her face closely for the effect of this extraordinary proposal . |
| 2 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 3 | Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left . |
| 4 | Kirk finds God in the slightly rubbish STAR TREK V : THE FINAL FRONTIER and Jane Fonda gets her kit off for the evil Duran Duran in groovy pop-art romp BARBARELLA . |
| 5 | Then to stop her crying , anything to stop that , he had to buy her the set of antique-look brass fire-irons she had set her heart on for the lounge , to give an extra touch of authenticity to the rustic stone fireplace and the imitation-log gas fire . |
| 6 | Rose of Lima herself did not write her memoirs , or anything else , so her subjective understanding of this painful phenomenon is not really known ; what is known is that she offered her life explicitly for the conversion and salvation of those suffering people — one of the reasons , obviously , why she later seemed an appropriate patron for the New World . |
| 7 | Now she saved her animus largely for the council , which seemed unfair , since it had permitted her to buy for almost nothing the house which her mother had rented and given her a grant for improvements . |
| 8 | She bought some and took it back for the baby , dipping her finger in for the mite to suck . |