Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one to stop them keeping her here for as long as they wanted . |
| 2 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 3 | So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage . |
| 4 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 5 | Was this his way of paying her back for trying to sneak Kirsty down to London ? |
| 6 | For him it would simply have been a matter of bringing the girl along , telling my mother she was coming with them and paying her handsomely for the hardship occasioned . ’ |
| 7 | In the ensuing pandemonium the young musicians played on , but Matron came and took Anna away , scolding her gently for bad behaviour which would not be tolerated once she was settled in . |
| 8 | Maybe Ace would stop blaming her personally for all his problems with the car . |
| 9 | This was n't just about poison pen letters , and bringing her here for her own safety . |
| 10 | With this last push Penguin is building her up for HarperCollins to take over , for she is on the move . |
| 11 | In the final Arnaud was too strong , and threw Hughes twice , taking her backwards for a koka ( three points ) and then with a shoulder throw for yuko . |
| 12 | I thought he was taking her away for ever . |
| 13 | At Hunstead Park from May nineteen eighty nine until May nineteen ninety , both parents stayed for the first week and thereafter supported the plaintiff in taking her back for home visits , every weekend plus a week at Christmas and Easter . |
| 14 | He 's taking her out for meals and they 're having a good time together you know . |
| 15 | Yes , well there is another man and she 's told Paul frankly she 's lapping up the attention , he 's taking her out for meals and their having a good time together you know , why its great , but as soon as he 's paid for , for the goods and got , got the goods , the chaps going to go off looking for another . |
| 16 | If your child does something you do not like , such as losing her temper too easily , you may increase her ability to think first and hold her temper by penalizing her consistently for failing to do so ; in this way you are providing an ‘ incentive ’ for her efforts to keep her cool . |
| 17 | She expected Urquhart but found first a message from her brother inviting her down for the weekend . |
| 18 | He broke off , regarding her warily for a moment before laughing , a hard , hollow sound accompanied by a shrug that could have been of acceptance , or resignation . |
| 19 | He stopped , studying her consideringly for a moment . |
| 20 | A nest , of course , that had a huge , probably wholly malevolent , black-browed spider at the centre of it , King Spider himself warming her up for his dinner she supposed . |
| 21 | Men had been assessing her hungrily for years , ever since she 'd turned sixteen and changed from an awkward , gangly teenager to a tall , curvaceous young woman . |
| 22 | Her parents were always telling her off for going on about things being boring . |
| 23 | What they telling her off for ? |
| 24 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 25 | She was n't quite sure what he was summing her up for but he was certainly doing that . |
| 26 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |