Example sentences of "for her [adj] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want it for her own good . |
| 2 | For Cecilia , however — a young black girl placed in care at 13 because her mother could n't cope — the fact that she could express anger and upset with her sister , whom she dearly loved , resulted in social workers suggesting a move , ‘ for her own good ’ , to a smaller family-style establishment in the country , miles from the inner city community in which she had grown up . |
| 3 | A writer should suffer and all that — it would be for her own good in the long run . |
| 4 | She made little money from journalism , having criticized too many auras for her own good . |
| 5 | If the lad was a bit stern with her at times , it was only for her own good . ’ |
| 6 | For her own good and everyone elses she must be restrained . ’ |
| 7 | Too determined for her own good really , which was why he had had to agree to last night in the first place . |
| 8 | For separatists to impose their solution on all women , even if it was viewed as being ‘ for her own good ’ , you can not escape the fact that you are simply replacing male domination with female . |
| 9 | To beautiful for her own good . |
| 10 | Oh , yes , from what Father Dolan had said and through information he had got from Constable Fenwick , much too beautiful for her own good . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But melded with the annoyance was a certain satisfaction that the model graduate chief inspector , whom he thought much too clever and ambitious for her own good , had made a grave error . |
| 13 | There is never the feeling that in any way she is exploiting her position for her own good . |
| 14 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 15 | A deep sense of another 's ingratitude invaded her — she found this foolish light-minded bird quite detestable in her desertion , in her stupidity and folly , in her lack of recognition of the comfort and safety arranged for her own good , contrived and given with heartfelt care and love . |
| 16 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 17 | It reminded her too strongly for her own good that he had been doled out far too much fatal charm . |
| 18 | Clare was a true Breakspearean. too subtle for her own good . |
| 19 | Lou and I have always presented a good public face : we make a happily married couple , a busy professional pair ; she in the media — seen as a little suspect , a little too clever for her own good — he in the interpretive arts : sensitive , hard-working , dedicated : often away . |
| 20 | She was too well acquainted with Gothic literature for her own good . |
| 21 | Doreen Banks though , she was just too nosey for her own good ! |