Example sentences of "[verb] to her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only her own people but other people used to come to her for advice … |
| 2 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 3 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 4 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 5 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 6 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’ |
| 11 | The remark got back to Belinda , who did n't speak to her for years thereafter . |
| 12 | she ca n't write now , I have n't written to her for weeks |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And , perhaps , since he was not blinded by love after all , he might be prepared to listen to her for once ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She said , I think she were gon na wonder what , what they 're gon na do to her for for the copy machine . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It did not occur to her for a moment that she might not be right . |
| 23 | He was very upset ; and still , after five years , he turned to her for comfort and advice ; still like a child , her child . |
| 24 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | When Tallis rode up this narrow track she sent stones tumbling to the glittering water below her , and at a certain height she stopped to listen to the sound , recognizing it from a time in childhood , from a time when she had summoned images of another world , and Harry had called to her for help . |
| 27 | oh yeah , and end up not speaking to her for a month |
| 28 | Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't |
| 29 | Dizzy shook his head and put a finger to his lips , calling to her for silence ; so Alina waited , and after a while the young woman gave up and went away . |
| 30 | What was he going to do to her for running away ? |