Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] her for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 2 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 3 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 4 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 5 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 6 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 7 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 8 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |
| 9 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 10 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
| 11 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 12 | She watched him hug the child to him , then straighten up , and now he stood glaring at her for a moment . |