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

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1 She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month .
2 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 .
3 ‘ She has agreed to stop her writing for a while , and become Head Nurse of my hospital . ’
4 She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart .
5 Rosie Barnes 's pretty face , not unlike the young Margaret Thatcher , is etched with disappointment and pain as she hears she has failed to keep her seat for the Liberal Democrats in Greenwich .
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