Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] her for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 2 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 3 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 4 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 5 | Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside . |
| 6 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 7 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
| 8 | One thing she had to say about Dad , at least he had prepped her for the world she was going to have to live in . |
| 9 | Some years later , Hellen and I met her again in Hong Kong , where the impresario , Harry Odell , had brought her for a concert . |
| 10 | She rose , tripping round the table as if Benjamin had asked her for a dance . |
| 11 | The pause had steadied her for a while but then it enabled the gnawing to chew on her once more . |
| 12 | To make his point , he had taken her for a burger , nothing more , and defied her to come on too strong about it . |
| 13 | Delia had taken her for a walk in the park and Mrs Miniver — always an inquisitive ‘ person ’ by nature — had squeezed through railings alongside the river and promptly slid down the bank into the water . |
| 14 | He had begged her for a doctor . |
| 15 | She had the money Mrs Dallam had paid her for the petticoats and chemises . |