Example sentences of "[verb] her for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 32 | The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced . |
| 33 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 34 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 35 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 36 | Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening . |
| 37 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 38 | He studied her for a moment . |
| 39 | He studied her for a moment , noting how she had aged . |
| 40 | He studied her for a moment , and she took in his steel-grey , twill-weave trousers and ivory shirt of raw silk . |
| 41 | Frowning , he studied her for a moment , then , with an impatient curse , yanked the ribbon away and unwound her braid . |
| 42 | Adam studied her for a moment in silence . |
| 43 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 44 | Vitor studied her for a moment . |
| 45 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
| 46 | He studied her for a second , eyes narrowed . |
| 47 | He studied her for a moment , then said slowly , ‘ Of course . |
| 48 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 49 | There were enough provisions here to feed her for a week — and in far more luxury than she would have dreamt of buying for herself . |
| 50 | I interviewed her for a nature programme . |
| 51 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 52 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 53 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 54 | ‘ Meeting her for the first time was nerve-racking to say the least , ’ says one insider at BSkyB . |
| 55 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 56 | He surveyed her for a moment and then switched on , as though it had been a light , the very considerable charm of his smile . |
| 57 | He leaned back in his chair and surveyed her for a moment . |
| 58 | His eyes surveyed her for a moment . |
| 59 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 60 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |