Example sentences of "[vb pp] her for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
2 | After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her . |
3 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
4 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
5 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
6 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
7 | Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears . |
8 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
9 | Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside . |
10 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
11 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
12 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
13 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
14 | The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced . |
15 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
16 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
17 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
18 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
19 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
20 | ‘ Nobody 's seen her for a week , and she 's not taken any of her stuff . ’ |
21 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
22 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
23 | Have n't seen her for a while . |
24 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
25 | Have n't seen her for a couple of month , have you ? |
26 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
27 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
28 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
29 | I mean I have n't thanked her for the money she sent . |
30 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |