Example sentences of "[be] [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 2 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 4 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 5 | Obviously she will often clash with the adults who are grooming her for life . |
| 6 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 7 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 8 | No , because right has a tummy bug this week and she did n't phone or nothing like to say I do n't wan na phone Margaret she do n't wan na know so I do n't know why you 're bugging her for ! |
| 9 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
| 10 | Not that she 'll recognize ye , her sight 's none too good , but we 've been tellin' her for days ye 'd be coming . ’ |
| 11 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 12 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 13 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 14 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 15 | That had been to strengthen her for all the troubles and problems she 'd had to deal with . |
| 16 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 17 | She has n't heard Alina walking across the terrace , and has n't even been expecting her for another half-hour . |
| 18 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 19 | Something tells me I wo n't be seeing her for a while either . |
| 20 | He would not have reckoned on their single liaison having such an outcome , and he would be blaming her for failing to have taken precautions . |
| 21 | " Since you do not want the maiden , I am taking her for myself , gracious princess ! " he called . |
| 22 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |
| 23 | Well Derek 's been telling her for ages you see , to join the |
| 24 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 25 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |
| 26 | ‘ Nobody 's seen her for a week , and she 's not taken any of her stuff . ’ |
| 27 | He 's punishing her for her beauty and what he thought of as her wickedness . ’ |
| 28 | No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors . |
| 29 | He 's congratulated her for being so perceptive … but says the errors were actually made on purpose . |
| 30 | Last night , she had taken one of the wolfdogs that had been following her for weeks . |