Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She 'll do , I only want her for breeding , ’ the nasty woman said . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 6 | I only saw her for a day or two . ’ |
| 7 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 8 | He only married her for her money too . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Her eyes could not have bulged further if Werewolf had told her he only wanted her for her mind . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers . |
| 14 | ( 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 . ) |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 17 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I have already paid her for tonight . ’ |
| 20 | He has just photographed her for the latest Dolce e Gabbana campaign in New York . |
| 21 | Well I 'll just ask her for your videos first |
| 22 | Of course , more fool her for having succumbed to the moment , but it was over and done with , and that was the end of it . |
| 23 | My regard for your daughter has in no way diminished ; I still want her for my wife . |
| 24 | The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced . |
| 25 | IT ALWAYS COMES as a surprise to Nancy Kominsky that so many people still remember her for her television series in the late 1970s . |
| 26 | Deep down , he still blamed her for taking his mammy from him . |
| 27 | Lucinda accepted her mother 's need for a Bainbridge heir and she understood her feelings of guilt , too , even though no one ever blamed her for the accident . |
| 28 | With a figure like that one would hardly take her for a chips and stodge consumer . |
| 29 | Sometimes Scarlet had a brief insight into her own attitudes to other people and would realize that she had suffered far more pain on their behalf than was necessary and that no one would ever thank her for it : this made her feel useless and extremely tired . |
| 30 | He was usually decrying her for displaying that vice . |