Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Leonora clenched her teeth for an instant as her body yielded to his with a fleeting moment of pain , then she relaxed as they lay still for an instant in the very eye of the storm . |
| 32 | Notably , she reserves her criticism for Lombroso — not by any means , at the time she was writing , the only person to have made the connection — remarking that his method was merely one of ‘ heaping up instances which support his thesis ’ . |
| 33 | She also attended a kindergarten school where she first demonstrated her talent for modelling with clay . |
| 34 | Now she had stopped denying her love for Tyler . |
| 35 | Brooke-Rose used her facility for light , clever story-telling as a sort of sugar-coating with which to induce readers to swallow her less palatable conceptual material , but in most cases the pill was never digested because readers were accustomed to ‘ serious ’ novels being concerned with morality . |
| 36 | Helen believed that their acquaintance would ripen into a warm friendship , equalling her affection for Jane Aldis , but did not believe that she and Edward could ever fall in love , so convinced was she of her own ‘ ordinariness ’ . |
| 37 | In the middle of this pother of boots , brothers , and boisterous behaviour , Leonora Hussey came in from the hall , greeting her daughter and chiding her husband for being so late back . |
| 38 | This Jessica woman — he assumed it must be Jessica , he 'd never heard her name for sure until tonight — had been in danger of getting her face poked down her throat , was all . |
| 39 | I had heard her cry for them in the night . |
| 40 | She now remembered how she had criticized her mother for bringing babies into the world without being able to look after them . |
| 41 | Charity actually lowered her voice for effect , in spite of the surrounding racket . |
| 42 | She raised a skinny , but powerful arm , and Dulcie , sensing joyous combat , lowered her head for action . |
| 43 | Why was she telling him this , reliving her humiliation for his vicarious enjoyment ? |
| 44 | He knew he must treat her affection for him seriously . |
| 45 | The pain had made her lose her breath for a few seconds . |
| 46 | A jury has been told that a woman accused of trying to kill her ex-boyfriend for the insurance money had no motive . |
| 47 | An aunt lent her house for the occasion , my mother did most of the cooking helped by my sister , and my mother-in-law baked the cake . |
| 48 | Maud salvaged him as usual by noticing nothing , and he mistakenly respected her instinct for dealing with his doldrums . |
| 49 | Devastated , Charles was determined not to lose her love for good . |
| 50 | Trish voiced her support for the vice-presidential campaign of Gerlandine Ferraro . |
| 51 | The more she heard , the greater became her respect for his views , and the lower her spirits sank . |
| 52 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 53 | I 'll make her pay for that later . |
| 54 | She had broken the law unwittingly , but still she had broken it , and if Jake was really determined he could make her pay for it . |
| 55 | Might there be a chance that if he went back to England , he could make her care for him ? |
| 56 | Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day . |
| 57 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 58 | Later , Jacqui met her kiss for kiss in their lovemaking ; even taking the initiative as they drank of each other 's bodies . |
| 59 | ‘ The new owner of the Enderley estate is a hard man , or he 'd never have the heart to turn her out , even if he does want her cottage for a gamekeeper . |
| 60 | She wondered whether Philippa had really outgrown her passion for partially disabled men but she seemed oblivious of all this and sat like a springtime sprig in a bed of roses , contemplating her coincidental twin . |