Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Janice , from her vantage point , managed to catch the eye of a boy to whom she had spoken on the boat , and terrorized , fascinated , he responded to her insinuations and oglings and came over to ask her for the pleasure of her hand . |
| 3 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 4 | Lydia had barely set foot beyond the ashram in three years when Lorne turned up to kidnap her for a reconnaissance mission with him to Celebes island , eight hundred miles away to the north-east . |
| 5 | There were enough provisions here to feed her for a week — and in far more luxury than she would have dreamt of buying for herself . |
| 6 | Bathed in the bright sun of Italy and glittering with social and commercial success , it seemed to her that it had always been menaced by dark shadows , many of which , Constance sometimes thought , had sprung up almost to punish her for leaving this remote area so early in her adult life . |