Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 2 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |
| 3 | Mrs Hancock , the girl from the other side of the tracks , had always professed her love for the rough , tough ex-miner who made a fortune and espoused the most outlandish ideas . |
| 4 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 5 | Anyway we 've only got her word for the whole story . |
| 6 | She just hoped he had n't recognised her start for the violent sexual reaction it had been — a totally ridiculous reaction , she told herself , since she was n't in the least attracted to Fenton Marshall . |
| 7 | His wife , Sonia Gandhi , was an Italian-born Christian who had made known her distaste for the political life imposed on her husband ; their son Rahul , 21 , and daughter Priyanka , 19 , were too young even to enter the Lok Sabha . |
| 8 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |