Example sentences of "[prep] her for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from joining us for the evening meal and when she ran short of pesetas , we saw little of her for the rest of the holiday . |
| 2 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 3 | Since nothing seemed to be required of her for the present , Robbie thought , it would do no harm to lean back , just for a moment , and allow her heavy eyelids to have their own way . |
| 4 | Luke rolled her back on the bed , their mouths still hungrily joined together , and she could feel his hand search behind her for the zip of her dress . |
| 5 | When she reached it , she felt behind her for the handle . |
| 6 | ‘ You seem to have a rather inflated idea of your own attractions , Mr Sterne , ’ she muttered , scarlet-faced , kicking her suitcase towards the door , and reaching cautiously behind her for the latch . |
| 7 | These sounds and sights of East Anglia , she felt , would remain with her for the rest of her life . |
| 8 | I knew that she now expected me to live with her for the rest of her days . |
| 9 | She knew that was one of many memories which would stay with her for the rest of her life . |
| 10 | Modigliani moved in to be with her for the last few days and at the end of November Jeanne entered the Nice Maternity Hospital . |
| 11 | It was now too much at home with her for the response to be triggered . |
| 12 | She was picturing her daughter , her beloved Angel , and as the pony stepped daintily over the cobbles she was counting the minutes until she was with her for the first time in nearly six months . |
| 13 | Promised her he would be in touch , and to be with her for the birth of their baby . |
| 14 | It would stay with her for the rest of her life . |
| 15 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
| 16 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 17 | Naturally he would assume that Richard was staying with her for the weekend . |
| 18 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 19 | He should have remained with her for the hunting , devil take it , instead of going to his friend Woolacombe ! |
| 20 | If he did , he was in an enviable position to play cat and mouse with her for the duration of their stay . |
| 21 | If only he knew that no man could give her what he had — thirteen frantic days of excitement and sensuality that would be with her for the rest of her life . |
| 22 | At first I was bitterly jealous of Rachel and only wanted Jacob to love me more than her to win something from her for the first time in my miserable life , but by the end of that blissful week , I found that I , unfortunately , had also fallen victim to his charms . |
| 23 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 24 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 25 | She did not understand that he was mocking her , or that he would take such a revenge on her for the pleasure he found in her . |
| 26 | He took it out on Scarlet in the same way as he avenged himself on her for the pressures at work and the demands of his first wife . |
| 27 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 28 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |