Example sentences of "[verb] her for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 2 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 3 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 4 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 5 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 6 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 7 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 8 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 9 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 10 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 11 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 12 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 13 | I did n't want Mary to go because I thought I would n't see her for a long time , and I ran over to her and pleaded . |
| 14 | ‘ From what you 've told me , I do n't think we 'll see her for a long time unless your Mr Wyatt finds them , and while he thinks you are Dana he wo n't be looking very hard , will he ? ’ |
| 15 | Yes , said Sister , Mrs Downes had been remarkably lucky , really ; and , yes , Sergeant Lewis could see her for a short while . |
| 16 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 17 | A consultant visiting her sick child at home , blamed her for the terrible housing conditions where she lived . |
| 18 | It may surprise readers but , since I wrote about her recently , Barbara and I have become good friends , so I rang her up to tell her that I would join her for a good gloat . |
| 19 | A DOCTOR groped a woman patient 's breast while examining her for a stiff neck , a court heard yesterday . |
| 20 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 21 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 22 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 23 | Confuse a waitress by asking her for a Big Mac and chips ? |
| 24 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |
| 25 | She , Clarissa , was not looking forward to telephoning Lady Southdown , as she was bound to do , to thank her for a lovely evening . |
| 26 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 27 | It is clear , moreover , from facts which later became public , that her father King Malcolm had never intended her for a monastic vocation . |
| 28 | And when the bridal party came out into the church porch and stood blinking and smiling in the winter daylight , Sir Felix Lark , his wild eyes excessively unstable , was instantly at Linnet 's elbow , topping the suave invitations of Mr Adolphus Moon to meet his artistic friends with offers to mount her for the Far Flatley hunt . |
| 29 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 30 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |