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

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1 I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while .
2 He came from Cambridge , and I have n't heard of her for a number of years .
3 Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick .
4 Yet Mrs Thatcher 's unassailable , inaccessible image was explicitly fashioned by her for the media .
5 It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body .
6 Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress .
7 The county court judge gave judgment for the mother in an action brought by her for the £1 per week based upon the father 's undertaking .
8 He should have remained with her for the hunting , devil take it , instead of going to his friend Woolacombe !
9 His hands tightened on her for an instant , and then he let her go .
10 Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement .
11 Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline .
12 She clung to him while he held himself hard and poised over her for a moment , and then he parted her qivering thighs , slipping himself high inside her as naturally as a silver shoehorn easing on a silk slipper .
13 Since nothing seemed to be required of her for the present , Robbie thought , it would do no harm to lean back , just for a moment , and allow her heavy eyelids to have their own way .
14 Faye could not paint or draw while lying in bed , but in the mornings Belinda usually read to her for an hour while she rested her eyes , then left her alone for the remainder of the morning to rest or scribble ideas for future painting projects .
15 Unusually , no blame is attached to her for the outcome .
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