Example sentences of "[vb past] her [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 2 | I helped her prepare for the date , pressing her nicest blouse , lending her my best necklace and polishing her shoes . |
| 3 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 4 | Now in receipt of government support ( and offering particular help for people under 30 ) , the Trust helped her apply for a Westminster Enterprise grant . |
| 5 | Daisy Pettigrew changed her reading for her long distance glasses , so that she could see the vicarage garden more clearly . |
| 6 | I told her I 'd be in the Maple Leaf in Covent Garden until about nine , then down in Fulham and I gave her the address of the party and told her to ask for Louise . |
| 7 | She was very hot and would not eat anything , and Mrs Viney told her to send for Dr Forrest . |
| 8 | I sat with her , gave her my drink bottle , stuffed her with glucose and encouraged her to rest for a while . |
| 9 | She constantly restrained her eating for fear of putting on weight . |
| 10 | When Moran pressed her to come for the Christmas dinner , she refused . |
| 11 | In the early Eighties , she organized a venture which above all else satisfied her craving for rescuing the past with no obvious monetary benefit . |
| 12 | Clare watched her eating for a moment . |
| 13 | Out of all the men who had liked her and wanted her , why did it have to be someone who thought her the most despicable of all cheats who made her yearn for something more ? |
| 14 | He made her wait for an answer as he topped the teapot up with hot water and Ruth 's imagination went off on its own . |
| 15 | He saw it made her think for a moment , about him . |
| 16 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |
| 17 | A few days later before Anne went to work her mother asked her to go for bread . |
| 18 | Whilst Zborowski was still in the south of France Modigliani met Madame Zborowska in the street and asked her to pose for him . |
| 19 | Then she met Woody at a New York exhibition of Luc 's paintings — and he asked her to audition for Husbands and Wives . |
| 20 | She was delighted when I asked her to work for me , ’ Roman said , his voice warm with sympathy . |
| 21 | This led her to search for a continuous tradition which had been activated by occult means and linked the French and Russian Revolutions . |
| 22 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 23 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |
| 24 | She dealt with them , then attended to various other tasks which kept her occupied for the remainder of the afternoon . |
| 25 | When the others saw her heading for home after the latest sports or debating session they would say " Look out . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , she was a handsome woman and very competent and Modi persuaded her to pose for him nude . |
| 27 | Persuaded her to work for him with promises he had no intention of fulfilling ? |
| 28 | Timber was stacked on the gallery floor and the farmer 's wife removed her washing for photographs to be taken — a practical use for a gallery in inclement weather . |
| 29 | But what alarmed and frightened her most and had her leaping for her pen was this talk of ‘ us ’ , of Oreste and Ellen being a pair who were ‘ happy together ’ and would never come to Italy . |
| 30 | In December 1812 one of her creditors had her arrested for debt , as he was entitled to under the still operating Lords ' Act of 1759 . |