Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] her for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 2 | She remembered that Aycliffe had brought up the matter of clothes , that Benedict himself had scolded her for her nip-cheese ways . |
| 3 | She … well , you 've seen her for yourself , have n't you ? |
| 4 | He was still the hard , ambitious man who had married her for her father 's company , not for love . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think all this will sink in properly until we 've seen her for ourselves . ’ |
| 6 | She thought perhaps he 'd mistaken her for someone else . |
| 7 | Prim and proper had always been her way , and he 'd appreciated her for it . |
| 8 | Trying to pretend he had mistaken her for someone else was obviously not going to work . |
| 9 | Letterman implies that he had to divorce her for her own good ; he could not bear to see so much life force confined in marriage . |
| 10 | He had sworn at her , jeered at her , called her a lump of cold batter , told her to get to the devil , told her that he was sick of the sight of her , that he had married her for her money , that if she gave him any more of her canting preaching he 'd hit her one that she 'd remember . |
| 11 | The absurd fact was that he had married her for her gaiety . |
| 12 | Since the night he kissed her he had woken her for her watch by hammering on the deckhead until she shouted that she was on her way . |