Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tales from Lavender Shoes ( TS405 — two cassettes ; 1 hour 50 minutes ) read by Jill Shilling is from the pen of Alison Uttley , a favourite writer for several generations of children , who enjoy her stories from the age of five or even younger and go on enjoying her for years . |
| 2 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |
| 3 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |
| 4 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She 'll do , I only want her for breeding , ’ the nasty woman said . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 7 | Sarah Anne Burke was critically ill last night after being found lying in her bed covered in blood by a care assistant who went in to wake her for breakfast . |
| 8 | I only saw her for a day or two . ’ |
| 9 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 10 | He only married her for her money too . |
| 11 | His arms he folded round her , and so held her for a moment passive ; then with a sudden sharp sigh she embraced him again , quivering , and lifted her mouth to him ravenously . |
| 12 | She had vowed to fight for Roman 's love , but how could she when he only wanted her for a stopgap while Dana was away ? |
| 13 | Her eyes could not have bulged further if Werewolf had told her he only wanted her for her mind . |
| 14 | And if her head warned her that he only wanted her for sex , her heart ignored the warning and opened itself joyfully to his tender passion . |
| 15 | She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers . |
| 16 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This , Emecheta explains , is a very strong goddess of the Ibos , so strong that Hausa soldiers dare not attack her for fear of being made impotent . |
| 19 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 20 | For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’ |
| 21 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 22 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 23 | I 've not seen her for ages . ’ |
| 24 | I have not seen her for days . ’ |
| 25 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 26 | I 'd not seen her for quite some time , you know . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ When she started staying with friends I would not see her for about a week or so , but I was not concerned . |
| 29 | At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple . |
| 30 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |