Example sentences of "[verb] her for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outspoken Mrs Clinton , an assertive Leftish lawyer , has already become a campaign issue because of a scathing remark she made about women who ‘ stay at home and bake cookies ’ and because Mr Clinton says he will consider her for a job in his Cabinet once he wins the White House . |
| 2 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 3 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 4 | If Duke Egeus did not ask Hermia to choose between Demetrius and life in a nunnery in Act 1 , there would be no point pressing her for an answer four acts later . |
| 5 | When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found . |
| 6 | After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her . |
| 7 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |
| 8 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 9 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 10 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 11 | Amidst the noise of children shouting , women calling across the alley , and dogs barking , Sarah seemed to hear her father condemning her for the way she had behaved these last months , and her misery grew . |
| 12 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 13 | Vass regarded her for a moment . |
| 14 | The blue eyes narrowed as he regarded her for a moment . |
| 15 | He regarded her for a moment as though considering what she 'd told him . |
| 16 | This being a movie , Sandra is recognised , by a young American woman who won her place in the workshop in a competition and who now , shyly , politely , asks if she can trouble her for an autograph . |
| 17 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 18 | ‘ Forget her for a minute if you can , ’ snarled Marc . |
| 19 | What possible reason could a sane man have for thanking her for an evening that had never happened ? |
| 20 | She answered the telephone , thanked the Martellis for thanking her for the party . |
| 21 | She returned Myra 's greeting , thanking her for the card . |
| 22 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 23 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 24 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 25 | Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears . |
| 26 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 27 | Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside . |
| 28 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 29 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 30 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |