Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knelt over her for a moment , tough and handsome in the candlelight , his eyes triumphant with the knowledge of desire on the verge of fulfilment , possessing her as only he could , then he was bending , lifting her into his arms , carrying her across the room , and she felt the sudden chill as the door opened and , wedging it awkwardly with his foot , he bundled her through it . |
| 2 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 3 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 4 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 5 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 6 | Here she would receive such visitors as happened to be staying in the house , and subsequently reverential visitors , who appealed to her for aid or sympathy . |
| 7 | When Thasos , under siege by Kimon , appealed to her for help , she offered ‘ secretly ’ ( but the offer was evidently everybody 's secret at Athens ) to invade Attica and thereby to relieve Thasos indirectly : Thuc. i. 101 . |
| 8 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 9 | He was very upset ; and still , after five years , he turned to her for comfort and advice ; still like a child , her child . |
| 10 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 11 | Having met Hermione Farthingale , David lived with her for a year . |
| 12 | I lived with her for four years . |
| 13 | The surface above her bulged out into a number of large teardrop shapes which hung above her for a moment , trembling slightly , before depositing the Doctor , Miles , Cheryl and Bishop beside her . |
| 14 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 15 | She glanced at her for signs of irony and saw none . |
| 16 | We talked about her for a long time , and I think our Chairman was impressed . |
| 17 | She worked for her for eighteen years . |
| 18 | I sympathised with her for , after all , Notts County was the oldest league club in the world , and this was the season when Tom Keetley scored a record thirty-nine goals and we came top of Third Division South . |
| 19 | He chatted with her for a few minutes , then placed the bag of clothes into the boot of his car , and headed for home . |
| 20 | An officer who worked alongside her for many years interpreted the fact that he had seen her kneeling at the mercy seat more than any other officer as a sign of her close relationship with God and the constant need for the kind of realignment which requires a certain humbling of oneself . |
| 21 | A deep lump seemed to fill Laura'a throat as the little blonde girls clung to her for some minutes . |
| 22 | Maurice stared after her for a moment . |
| 23 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 24 | When she reached it , she felt behind her for the handle . |
| 25 | He lay with her for a little while as if all had been for the best and when , with a sudden , slithering movement , she was off the bed and into her dress , he thanked her , wished her good night . |
| 26 | What does she feel about the media mayhem that whirled round her for months last year ? |
| 27 | She had to salvage her pride , forsake forever the tenderness that ached within her for this man … |
| 28 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |
| 29 | Those which her husband offered to her for signature she signed without question ; those offered by others she would ask for the document to be explained . |
| 30 | When people apologized to her for breaking a glass or making a remark which , upon sober reflection , they found themselves regretting she would smile the vague smile of the hostess who is at once too preoccupied and too superior to notice the faux pas of those around her . |