Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] her [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I received a straightforward message recently when I telephoned her flat for a chat : ‘ Elizabeth says she 's busy . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She spent Christmas with me and my wife Pam and I took her dog for a walk . ’ |
| 3 | Outside in the street I took her hand for the first time . |
| 4 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 5 | She asked her aunt for a little money , for the first time , shuffling her feet and keeping her eyes shyly down . |
| 6 | She cracked her face for a while . |
| 7 | One example of how she uses her position for the good of the game , and for others , occurred in October when , suffering from a painful wrist injury and against her doctor 's advice , she played an exhibition , not for personal gain , but to raise money for multiple sclerosis . |
| 8 | As she clambered over the steep Alpine meadows with Portia , she told her friend for the first time about Thomas and how he had helped her when she had nowhere to go . |
| 9 | She rested her head for a moment against his shoulder and then sat up straight , conscious that she must not ruffle her carefully coiffured hair . |
| 10 | She reserved her temper for the horse . |
| 11 | Nicandra burst into tears and , as she opened her mouth for a bellow , the stored spinach and saliva shot out , into her plate , on to the tablecloth , a horrid defilement . |
| 12 | After the Anglo-French reconciliation of 1303 , Edward wrote to Marie of France thanking her for her letters in which she expressed her desire for a meeting and conversation between him and her stepson , Philip the Fair . |
| 13 | Also , perhaps , that sometimes at night , she finds her crying for the starving of Africa or unable to sleep with the terror of the possibility of nuclear war or desperately seeking a denial of the reality of the horror of the Holocaust . |
| 14 | She lost her breath for a moment . |
| 15 | Then , pleading a headache and fatigue , she cancelled her outing for the evening , and went to bed . |
| 16 | ‘ She outlined her regard for the children and made the point that she showed them more attention than the Prince of Wales appeared to . ’ |
| 17 | She searched her handbag for the handkerchief , lipstick and eye pencil that are necessary parts of a woman 's grief . |
| 18 | A T E , A T R at the university and just , the block , the side of the university , she had her apartment for a little time . |
| 19 | She had her introduction for the exhibition and Jay read it like she did n't know who 'd written it . |
| 20 | Well Yvonne went into the private to get er a sister 's post and sh but she knew she was gon na do her midwifery , so she knew she was n't gon na stay there but when she went it 's become when she does her midwifery for the sister 's post , ah but she 's got experience has n't she when she 's |
| 21 | But Pope , now and then at least , deserted his couplets for stanzas with another movement , and so does she ; and when she does her instinct for a completeness of design is notable . |
| 22 | She sipped her brandy for a moment , then touched her lips with a little salt water … |
| 23 | She patted him on the shoulder and he drove off as she plumbed her bag for a ring of keys which would n't have looked out of place at Balmoral . |
| 24 | While Oliver was out of the room she abandoned her chair for the couch , kicked off her shoes and curled up . |
| 25 | She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time . |
| 26 | After a while , sitting in the car , we saw her stand for a few minutes first on one of the Howes , then on another , still and with arms raised . |
| 27 | Dolly hopped back to the bedroom just in time , for a moment later up came Linda and Ella to say that as Sergeant Joe was out , their mum had asked them to keep her company for a bit . |
| 28 | The pain had made her lose her breath for a few seconds . |
| 29 | Even when Hugh Russell 's attitude towards her had begun to change it had never occurred to her to doubt her parentage for a moment . |
| 30 | After they had finished with her , the soldiers stood over her corpse and urinated into her mouth ; then they left her body for the dogs . |