Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support . |
| 2 | Oddly , thoughts of the stranger haunted her for the rest of that day . |
| 3 | It followed radiotherapy to treat her for cancer . |
| 4 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 5 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 6 | She let the stranger touch her for a minute , and then the woman bent and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 7 | The rock thanked her for helping it . |
| 8 | Its cries of distress saddened her for years . |
| 9 | They 'll say I took advantage of a widow 's grief to marry her for her money , then cold-bloodedly ditched her as soon as I had a chance . |
| 10 | Neil 's origins made his presence in the East End even stranger — and he had the impertinence to quiz her for her presence , when his own was just as odd . |
| 11 | Mada Joyce expected Nana to trust her for goods from the store , but never expected to pay . |
| 12 | The girls at work admired her for living with a man and not being married to him , but she could forgo that pleasure , she thought , for the baby 's sake . |
| 13 | For this reason above all others she had come very close to declining Philip Swallow 's proposal to nominate her for the Shadow Scheme . |
| 14 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 15 | She flounced out of the kitchen , her normal poise and learned elegance deserting her for a moment , and quickly changed into her bikini in the bedroom , her mind buzzing with thoughts of Piers Morrison , and none of them very pleasant . |
| 16 | She liked Clara because Clara was bright , and for no other reason : she had no need to like her for any other reason , as she was well equipped with a busy social life and a lover . |
| 17 | If Duke Egeus did not ask Hermia to choose between Demetrius and life in a nunnery in Act 1 , there would be no point pressing her for an answer four acts later . |
| 18 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 19 | No , she 's said , she , she ai n't got the courage to ask her for more money , so I said well just give it a few more weeks and then Anne and Brian 's turn up , if it do n't get any better then , I 'm afraid you got Anne and Brian 's . |
| 20 | Late forties , husband left her for younger woman most likely . |
| 21 | Her husband left her for a job in the Arabian Gulf one year ago , and apart from regular maintenance , neither she nor the children have heard from him since . |
| 22 | A stunning young woman whose husband left her for a woman twenty years older than himself , never forgave him for it . |
| 23 | She had not been far behind him , and yet had heard no sound to prepare her for this . |
| 24 | The sister watched her for a while , then sent the nurse on an errand . |
| 25 | If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence . |
| 26 | Her husband , John Pennington , of Southport , Merseyside , was jailed for 15 years in June for hiring a hitman to kill her for the £300,000 insurance . |
| 27 | The fishmonger blessed her for calling and wished her a continued pleasant time in their beautiful city . |
| 28 | Amidst the noise of children shouting , women calling across the alley , and dogs barking , Sarah seemed to hear her father condemning her for the way she had behaved these last months , and her misery grew . |
| 29 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 30 | In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then … |