Example sentences of "[vb past] her for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 2 | Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed . |
| 3 | That pleased her for some unknown reason . |
| 4 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 5 | I taught her for several hours every day in the library , although it was not easy to make her concentrate on anything for long , as she was clearly not used to the discipline of lessons . |
| 6 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 7 | I think Simon blamed her for this . ’ |
| 8 | Roman observed her for another few moments . |
| 9 | Former model Carol Lawson , 42 , from Park Gate , Hants , refused to hang up on her relationship with neighbour Michael Hughes after he dumped her for another woman . |
| 10 | Richard sat on a bed and watched her for several dances before claiming her again . |
| 11 | He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith . |
| 12 | She kinda thought of him as a poet , and I think he loved her for that . |
| 13 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 14 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 15 | He then asked her for another £46,500 , claiming he needed the money to secure the bonds , and paid that , too , into his account . |
| 16 | read her , read her for new signs , |
| 17 | He showed her over the nearby castle , took her for long drives , and on the last day of his — as he called it — ‘ snatched holiday ’ , seemingly relaxed and happy to be playing truant from the demands of his busy life , he drove to Bettystown . |
| 18 | But actually I had her for half an hour to the commands and everything . |
| 19 | Erm and she 's had seven youngsters and she 's brought them up and she a , on her own she 's had to bring them up cos he left her for another , another woman and erm she had the seven and she 's worked and fought hard cos she would n't ask for a darn thing and er they 're , they 're great those kids , they are , they 're a credit to her , you know , but it 's taken it out of her , she 's |
| 20 | ‘ He left her for dead . |
| 21 | And from the crown of the final bend it was murder in the Montjuic stadium as Gunnell first eased alongside the American , then left her for dead down the home straight . |
| 22 | And from the crown of the final bend it was murder in the Montjuic stadium as Gunnell first eased alongside the American , then left her for dead down the home straight . |
| 23 | Late forties , husband left her for younger woman most likely . |
| 24 | The tug refloated the vessel , towed her to a sheltered anchorage where she was made fit for the tow to Hong Kong , and thereafter towed her for four days to docks in Hong Kong . |
| 25 | At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years . |
| 26 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |
| 27 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |