Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since they certainly would not pay her for the work she had already done on the trousseau , where else could she go ? |
| 2 | Janice , from her vantage point , managed to catch the eye of a boy to whom she had spoken on the boat , and terrorized , fascinated , he responded to her insinuations and oglings and came over to ask her for the pleasure of her hand . |
| 3 | Lucinda accepted her mother 's need for a Bainbridge heir and she understood her feelings of guilt , too , even though no one ever blamed her for the accident . |
| 4 | Though nothing can really compensate her for the pain and shock of what happened . |
| 5 | As she drove back home through the traffic , memories of her father 's authoritarian presence , vigorously admonishing her for the sinfulness of some childlike request , filled her mind with pain and loathing . |
| 6 | I know you could n't hurt her for the world . |
| 7 | I would n't hurt her for the world . ’ |
| 8 | I mean I have n't thanked her for the money she sent . |
| 9 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 10 | Jason tells me you 've often made careless mistakes in your work , and that you 've always resented him correcting you , ’ Mike enquired , and Kate knew from the way he spoke that he too blamed her for the trouble . |
| 11 | He 'll never forgive her for the life she has spent and she wo n't let him see what she 's come to at the end of it ! |