Example sentences of "for the [adj] [noun] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | AIBS considers Son-hee to be a prisoner of conscience , detained for the peaceful exercise of her rights to freedom of expression and association . |
| 2 | She leaned against him comfortably , and he began to wonder about the possibilities in aiming for the wide sleeve of her dress . |
| 3 | Her projects for the second half of her six-year term of office include activities at Nuremberg 's large Schlachthof , a children 's art centre and a book programme for TV . |
| 4 | The following morning , after dropping Iris at Les Châtaigniers for the second day of her course , Melissa returned to the auberge and telephoned Antoinette Gebrec . |
| 5 | For the second time in her life , she says , he had appeared out of the blue as it were and too charge . |
| 6 | If it had n't been for the capricious whim of her younger sister she would have been hard at work in London at this moment . |
| 7 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |
| 8 | She was also deeply concerned for the spiritual needs of her relatives and household servants . |
| 9 | If there is a marked resistance on the part of a lonely , but fit and mobile elderly person to consider any ideas for the possible improvement of her social life , and if gentle persuasion is of no avail , you may be justified in suspecting a condition of hidden depression . |
| 10 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 11 | Had it not been for the critical response to her work at the time , she might now be recorded differently in our history books . |
| 12 | ‘ Please help me out of my problems , Mr Croydon , ’ she said softly , despising herself for the wheedling tone in her voice . |
| 13 | She was grateful for the small privacy of her sunglasses . |
| 14 | Although she had pronounced likes and dislikes for the various members of her class she was perhaps the best teacher in the school , and at the end of four years she had hardly any failures in the final examinations . |
| 15 | Hardly able to move at all for the blissful heaviness of her limbs , Julia tried to make her mind work enough to answer him . |
| 16 | Margaret came to Scottish Amicable in February 1948 after being with Cadbury 's Scottish depot for the first part of her career . |
| 17 | For the first month of her life Mrs MacDonagh had taken the baby into her own house , along with Eleanor 's eighteen-month-old brother Patrick , and she had bottle fed the baby and kept an eye on her brother amidst the debris of her own life and the squalor of her enormous family . |
| 18 | Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday ! |
| 19 | Here she speaks for the first time about her ordeal to Margaret Hall . |
| 20 | Joanna 's ex-boyfriend , Frank Tadgell , spoke for the first time about her disappearance last night . |
| 21 | Sheila Silcock has spoken for the first time about her anger when her son Ben was banned from a MIND drop-in centre in Roehampton , south-west London . |
| 22 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 23 | The words and their phrasing left no doubt that the princess had been placed under considerable pressure to speak out publicly for the first time since her marriage to Prince Charles . |
| 24 | For the first time since her escape she was very conscious of the fact that she had given birth only a month before and could even fancy she felt a pulling sensation where the fundament stitches had been . |
| 25 | The chancellor who had long been an admirer of the queen , was affected not for the first time by her beauty and appeal — attributes which , it seemed to him , were in no way impaired by adversity . |
| 26 | While her unpleasant husband shut himself in his room and wrote letters , she explored the island with Paul Masson and for the first time in her life ‘ tasted and touched the salt , the sand , the seaweed , the odorous soft bed of the receding sea , the dripping fish ’ . |
| 27 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 28 | For the first time in her premiership she had won a knock-out victory . |
| 29 | finally , a new political awareness was making Colonial populations more than ever critical of their relationship with the metropolis , Britain , for the first time in her modern Imperial history , was literally unable to deliver the goods . |
| 30 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |