Example sentences of "[verb] her for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't recognise her for some time . |
| 2 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 3 | He realized with a stab of regret he had never once seen her face clearly , and if he went back to seek her out he would n't know her for sure among the many daughters of the chief . |
| 4 | Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed . |
| 5 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 6 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 7 | After tea she unpacked her shabby and much-mended clothes ( no chance of getting stockings for Christmas now , unless Felicity had a practical fit and sent her some ! ) and wrote two letters : a polite little note to Miss Henry , thanking her for past kindness , and a lengthy epistle to Gay , telling her the gloomy news . |
| 8 | The Clerk was to send a letter of apology to Mrs thanking her for twenty years of service and ask if she 'd reconsider the job . |
| 9 | I 'm sure you 'll value her for that . ’ |
| 10 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 11 | For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’ |
| 12 | Jane believes that her mother was often stressed to the point of despair at this time , ‘ … that she suffered all the torments and tribulations of every working mother without anything in her background , education or make-up having prepared her for such an emotional wrenching . ’ |
| 13 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 14 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 15 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 16 | Nothing in Australian society nor in the easy commerce between don and undergraduate which she had witnessed and occasionally shared with Michael at Cambridge , had prepared her for this . |
| 17 | Nothing in her life had prepared her for this wanton fire , burning and aching inside her . |
| 18 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |
| 19 | That pleased her for some unknown reason . |
| 20 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 21 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 22 | Never before has a member of the Royal Family stepped so far out of line and the Queen is not the only one who blames her for many of the misfortunes which have befallen the House of Windsor this year . |
| 23 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 24 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 25 | I have n't seen her for two weeks now . |
| 26 | He has seen her for all of 30 seconds . |
| 27 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 28 | But he declared that he would be unable to recognize Roksanda , after having seen her for such a short time , and that only by the light of his master 's ring . |
| 29 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 30 | I have n't seen her for bloody ages . |