Example sentences of "[verb] her for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My regard for your daughter has in no way diminished ; I still want her for my wife . |
| 2 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |
| 3 | Then she turned to the red bitch and thrashed her for her negligence , calling her lazy , useless , good-for-nothing . |
| 4 | Mr MacDuff agreed that the jury should award fair damages to compensate her for what she had gone through . |
| 5 | ‘ We found her for you . ’ |
| 6 | He wants her for himself . |
| 7 | But she is so pretty , they forgive her for it . |
| 8 | With so much specialised knowledge , which would qualify her for nothing much except a pilot 's certificate , with her wellingtons over which the mud of many tides had dried , she had the air of something aquatic , a demon from the depths , perhaps . |
| 9 | After the Anglo-French reconciliation of 1303 , Edward wrote to Marie of France thanking her for her letters in which she expressed her desire for a meeting and conversation between him and her stepson , Philip the Fair . |
| 10 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 11 | ‘ She is , but do n't fall over yourself thanking her for it . |
| 12 | Unlike Napoleon 's mother , Elena Petrescu left no memorable quotation or hint that peasant-wisdom had perhaps already prepared her for her world to be turned downside-up again . |
| 13 | She remembered that Aycliffe had brought up the matter of clothes , that Benedict himself had scolded her for her nip-cheese ways . |
| 14 | He laughed , loving her for it . |
| 15 | She pushed it back , and wiped the same hand on the Beatrix Potter apron Harriet had made her for her birthday . |
| 16 | Then it would be her lunchtime , and probably another feed , and after that they 'd send her for her afternoon rest , and then collect the specimens and the data from him for the next day 's test session . |
| 17 | It tyrannises her for its decoration , care and well-being . |
| 18 | I worship her for her piety . ’ |
| 19 | Someone ought to talk to Lily Bates , yes , that was what he had said and meant , but it might not have been him if he had n't seen her for himself that afternoon between five and six , the period between Hook Road School closing and Rose leaving her office at Belmodes ; the time Steve would have made his own . |
| 20 | She … well , you 've seen her for yourself , have n't you ? |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think all this will sink in properly until we 've seen her for ourselves . ’ |
| 22 | She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side . |
| 23 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 24 | It was perhaps evidence of some restraint that Elena did not oblige Romanians to praise her for her own inventions , but only those expropriated from others . |
| 25 | He would keep her for himself . |
| 26 | I would n't swap her for nothing … nothing . |
| 27 | [ aside ] Sometimes I admired her for her virtue , at other times , impetuous in my temper and unused to control , I could have beat her . |
| 28 | He sat with me and watched Jo Spence 's documentary on her fight against a serious illness and he admired her for her spirit and for using her work to get through her situation . |
| 29 | But it was the correct question , courageous , and he admired her for it . |
| 30 | Peter admired her for it ; he liked the way she stood out from the other wives . |