Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Here she would receive such visitors as happened to be staying in the house , and subsequently reverential visitors , who appealed to her for aid or sympathy . |
| 32 | When Thasos , under siege by Kimon , appealed to her for help , she offered ‘ secretly ’ ( but the offer was evidently everybody 's secret at Athens ) to invade Attica and thereby to relieve Thasos indirectly : Thuc. i. 101 . |
| 33 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 34 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 35 | I 've done without her for two months now . ’ |
| 36 | And , perhaps , since he was not blinded by love after all , he might be prepared to listen to her for once ! |
| 37 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 38 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 39 | She said , I think she were gon na wonder what , what they 're gon na do to her for for the copy machine . |
| 40 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 41 | Aquino 's economic cutbacks , imposed on her for all the right reasons , have caused considerable suffering . |
| 42 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 43 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 44 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 45 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
| 46 | Her choice of career had surprised and confused the students competing against her for jobs , but she 'd never allowed the unspoken disapproval that had surrounded her to deter her from her goal . |
| 47 | She had curled up in the deep old window seat , the velvet coverlet from the bed wrapped about her for warmth , and had drifted in and out of an uneasy sleep . |
| 48 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 49 | ‘ Perhaps you can look after her for five minutes while I go and book the rooms ? ’ |
| 50 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 51 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |
| 52 | I have hardly thought of her for at least a week ; I am free of the little stabs of pain and the scudding dark clouds which had a habit of appearing from nowhere , uninvited and unexpected . |
| 53 | Lovely , would n't mind fucking going with her for a night I tell ya . |
| 54 | Edward had watched over her for hours , even refusing to go down to the lock with his friends for days , though he loved to play there . |
| 55 | It did not occur to her for a moment that she might not be right . |
| 56 | He was very upset ; and still , after five years , he turned to her for comfort and advice ; still like a child , her child . |
| 57 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 58 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 59 | I remember in my teens being determined to do something which was not very nice , turning to her for permission and her saying " Well , I would n't do that — but I think you are old enough to decide for yourself , " and suddenly all the joy in the plan faded away and I did n't do it . |
| 60 | St John glanced quickly at her , but dared not look at her for long . |