Example sentences of "[vb past] her [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw her tutor 's enquiring look and dismissed her benefactor for the moment . |
| 2 | Mr Waldron has told the jury that McLean , who was a heavy drinker and took medication for angina , asthma and rheumatism , suffered from a mental abnormality which severely impaired her responsibility for her actions . |
| 3 | For example , a white mother with two children in my study described her strategies for budgeting on benefit in great detail , ending her account by noting how these strategies floundered : ‘ Because he spends his money and we could do with it . |
| 4 | Yet it never entered her head for a moment to think that Prince Charles was remotely interested in romance . |
| 5 | She cracked her face for a while . |
| 6 | Sharpe caught her eye for a second , then turned away as Lucille ran to him . |
| 7 | Doctor Laura Maingay changed her sandals for driving shoes , pulled on a pair of string-backed driving gloves and wound a silk square over springy brindled hair . |
| 8 | Leonora clenched her teeth for an instant as her body yielded to his with a fleeting moment of pain , then she relaxed as they lay still for an instant in the very eye of the storm . |
| 9 | She also attended a kindergarten school where she first demonstrated her talent for modelling with clay . |
| 10 | Brooke-Rose used her facility for light , clever story-telling as a sort of sugar-coating with which to induce readers to swallow her less palatable conceptual material , but in most cases the pill was never digested because readers were accustomed to ‘ serious ’ novels being concerned with morality . |
| 11 | Charity actually lowered her voice for effect , in spite of the surrounding racket . |
| 12 | She raised a skinny , but powerful arm , and Dulcie , sensing joyous combat , lowered her head for action . |
| 13 | An aunt lent her house for the occasion , my mother did most of the cooking helped by my sister , and my mother-in-law baked the cake . |
| 14 | Maud salvaged him as usual by noticing nothing , and he mistakenly respected her instinct for dealing with his doldrums . |
| 15 | Trish voiced her support for the vice-presidential campaign of Gerlandine Ferraro . |
| 16 | The more she heard , the greater became her respect for his views , and the lower her spirits sank . |
| 17 | Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day . |
| 18 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 19 | Later , Jacqui met her kiss for kiss in their lovemaking ; even taking the initiative as they drank of each other 's bodies . |
| 20 | Diana regularly asked her flatmates for advice on how she should conduct her romance . |
| 21 | Diana asked her sister for a lift to London . |
| 22 | Ms Sultana said that before the registrar 's office wedding Mr Ahmed , of Heather Road , Birmingham , asked her family for her British passport and a copy of it was forwarded to him . |
| 23 | She asked her aunt for a little money , for the first time , shuffling her feet and keeping her eyes shyly down . |
| 24 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 25 | He would persuade her that he loved her , ask her to promise to run away with him if her father refused his consent to their marriage , and , when he finally asked her father for her hand , threaten him with the prospect of his daughter 's elopement — he and Jared Tunstall both knew how self-willed his daughter was , and that any threat from her would not be idle . |
| 26 | Husband Charles , 43 , was upset when Di picked a foreign car and made her pay for it herself . |
| 27 | A second , searing stroke made her gasp for breath , as fire exploded in her backside as if she 'd been hit by a ball of lightning . |
| 28 | She developed in the chief inspector the emotional equivalent of a skin rash , and made her wish for nothing better than to discover Christine was the ‘ friend ’ her father had met on Hampstead Heath . |
| 29 | He laughed , a bitter sound that made her ache for all the pain it conveyed . |
| 30 | As France made her preparations for war , it was relatively simple for her to make an alliance with Austria against Prussia and it also turned out to be surprisingly easy to draw Russia into this alliance . |