Example sentences of "[vb pp] her for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her .
2 Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting .
3 Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said .
4 But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures .
5 Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears .
6 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 .
7 Have n't seen her for a couple of month , have you ?
8 No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat .
9 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 .
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