Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MOTHER is living in a nightmare from which her only possible escape is that her tiny daughter may win her fight for life . |
| 2 | She saw her tutor 's enquiring look and dismissed her benefactor for the moment . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid what he has to say will cause considerable distress , ’ she said , after explaining her reason for telephoning . |
| 4 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 5 | Mr Waldron has told the jury that McLean , who was a heavy drinker and took medication for angina , asthma and rheumatism , suffered from a mental abnormality which severely impaired her responsibility for her actions . |
| 6 | Mrs Hamilton was n't confident that the agency nurses she interviewed would respect her desire for confidentiality on the subject . |
| 7 | But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August . |
| 8 | She has never been to the Caribbean in her life , but most of her friends are black British : to their companionship she owes her aptitude for talking Creole . |
| 9 | Scared local authorities refused to accept her body for burial . |
| 10 | Now that she 's vented her spite for the evening , she wo n't even notice you 're missing , but if anyone asks I 'll tell them you 're suffering from toothache . ’ |
| 11 | banging her spoon for her wonderful brother and sister , |
| 12 | At least she has her family for support and company , and losing some of her friends and social outlets might be less damaging to her than to her single sister . |
| 13 | Yet it never entered her head for a moment to think that Prince Charles was remotely interested in romance . |
| 14 | Was n't she used by now to disguising her love for him ? |
| 15 | it is an artists ' book of the first order , the making of which has been managed from beginning to end by the artist herself , thereby satisfying her desire for creative control over every aspect of its production . |
| 16 | Anne listened quietly , her expression revealing her sympathy for Robyn . |
| 17 | She cracked her face for a while . |
| 18 | Foster qualified for the Telford finals having won her division for ‘ middle club ’ rated tennis players in a LTA Volkswagen Nationals county qualifying tournament during the summer and then a regional final in September . |
| 19 | PREMATURE baby Leah Roberts has won her fight for life . |
| 20 | Hyacinth , who could not catch her breath for excitement , found herself in the arms of the Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Sharpe caught her eye for a second , then turned away as Lucille ran to him . |
| 22 | She blinked and tried to hide her longing for him . |
| 23 | Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea . |
| 24 | After a delicious dinner , Lady Thorneycroft proposed the Loyal Toast , then the Chairman Lady Walters made a speech thanking her team for all their hard work in making the evening such a tremendous success . |
| 25 | But his lack of affection for her did n't lessen her love for him , nor did she give up hope that she would one day be able to make him feel genuinely fond of her . |
| 26 | It seemed to Kelly that she was trying to catch her eye for some reason . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | She also attended a kindergarten school where she first demonstrated her talent for modelling with clay . |
| 29 | Now she had stopped denying her love for Tyler . |
| 30 | 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 . |