Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 2 | Nobody had looked after her for years , he had been quite right about that . |
| 3 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
| 4 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 5 | Not only her own people but other people used to come to her for advice … |
| 6 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 7 | He knelt over her for a moment , tough and handsome in the candlelight , his eyes triumphant with the knowledge of desire on the verge of fulfilment , possessing her as only he could , then he was bending , lifting her into his arms , carrying her across the room , and she felt the sudden chill as the door opened and , wedging it awkwardly with his foot , he bundled her through it . |
| 8 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 9 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 10 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 11 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 12 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 13 | He came from Cambridge , and I have n't heard of her for a number of years . |
| 14 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 15 | Those fantasies that had protected her from real life , that beautiful , unpolluted world of the Lock with its seals and its childhood memories of her father and that other glossy , television world that she imagined people like Simon inhabited , had been ruined for her for ever . |
| 16 | Yeah well he 's been looking after her for , for years ai n't he ? |
| 17 | ACTRESS Jean Marsh is not flattered by a description of the rose she had named after her for her role as the maid , Rose , in Upstairs Downstairs . |
| 18 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 19 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |
| 20 | But Pappy , who was always so willing to engage with her for hours and talk about school work or play chess , only patted her on the shoulder and fobbed her off with platitudes when the question of her mother came up . |
| 21 | Last I heard she was living with her for . |
| 22 | Signora ! ’ as a ripe fruit or some trinket or other was thrust before her for her inspection . |
| 23 | Faye broke out rebelliously , with a negativity that Belinda had not seen in her for months . |
| 24 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 25 | On coming upstairs , he had turned to her for comfort , desperate to make love , needing to feel the growing swell of her body that was his own flesh and blood and , as always , he was moved to tears by it . |
| 26 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 27 | I did n't speak to her for the rest of the day , of course , and this made her laugh , I do n't know why . |
| 28 | ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’ |
| 29 | The remark got back to Belinda , who did n't speak to her for years thereafter . |
| 30 | she ca n't write now , I have n't written to her for weeks |