Example sentences of "[vb past] her for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 2 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 3 | Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening . |
| 4 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 5 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 6 | I paid her for the call , and stayed chatting for a while , answering her queries about the cottage and then telling her of my brother 's expected arrival , and the possibility that he might telephone with a message . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A consultant visiting her sick child at home , blamed her for the terrible housing conditions where she lived . |
| 9 | The following evening , when Kathy came to check on her , it was obvious that Clare blamed her for the shape she was in . |
| 10 | Jason tells me you 've often made careless mistakes in your work , and that you 've always resented him correcting you , ’ Mike enquired , and Kate knew from the way he spoke that he too blamed her for the trouble . |
| 11 | He blamed her for the death of his sister . |
| 12 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 13 | As we left I thanked her for the ‘ nice tea ’ and off we went . |
| 14 | Mahoney thanked her for the meal and left , stepping out onto the pavement . |
| 15 | Betty thanked her for the bucket and smiled at her , and Lydia , who , if Betty went on like this , might turn out to be quite human , decided that she would take her her breakfast in bed in the morning : thin crispy toast with a scraping of butter and golden clear jasmine tea , and an egg-cupful of harebells to remind her of the sky . |
| 16 | I thanked her for the dance and Werewolf bowed deeply to her ‘ girlfriend ’ ( Oxnard , California ) , which made her day , as they say in those parts . |
| 17 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 18 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 19 | And the teachers who selected her for the post make it very clear that it was Emily 's ability not her sex that made her first choice . |
| 20 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 22 | A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea . |
| 23 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
| 24 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 25 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 26 | Oddly , thoughts of the stranger haunted her for the rest of that day . |
| 27 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 28 | ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time . |
| 29 | Even when Guy left her for the few seconds it took him to remove his own clothes , his murmured words of love and praise still warmed and reassured her . |
| 30 | Hitchcock wanted her for The Birds but she turned him down . |