Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea . |
| 2 | This favourite phrase of hers , meaning uninformed opinion , seemed to underline her contempt for the situation in which I had placed myself : the young , married woman , abdicating intellectual effort , doing nothing but washing and cleaning and caring for her baby . |
| 3 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 4 | All his life he had sought her pardon for the failure which she either could not or would not spell out for him . |
| 5 | I thought she might add , ‘ And she 's bloody well going to wear it ’ , but my mother had said her piece for the moment . |
| 6 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 7 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
| 8 | She explained how she had continued her search for the murder weapon that afternoon . |
| 9 | Instead , a sleepy purring trill told her that the dozing house cat — it was the long-haired one , named after Bubastis , and almost a pet — had mistaken her clumsiness for a caress ; she had barely disturbed its sleep . |
| 10 | The two girls stayed up for hours , and by the end of the evening a date had been arranged for the Paris adventure , and Clarissa had confided her plan for the Saturday afternoon of the visit . |