Example sentences of "[v-ing] her for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found . |
| 2 | Amidst the noise of children shouting , women calling across the alley , and dogs barking , Sarah seemed to hear her father condemning her for the way she had behaved these last months , and her misery grew . |
| 3 | She answered the telephone , thanked the Martellis for thanking her for the party . |
| 4 | She returned Myra 's greeting , thanking her for the card . |
| 5 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 6 | ‘ Meeting her for the first time was nerve-racking to say the least , ’ says one insider at BSkyB . |
| 7 | George , who was to be in charge of the wires , having earlier walked round her as if he were the hangman measuring her for the drop , said Mary Deare would come into her own when she flew . |
| 8 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 9 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 10 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 11 | So I intended to try flying her for the assembly , and carefully got her down to her flying weight . |
| 12 | Victor Sierra 's ‘ rubber band ’ possesses a great ability to frighten the life out of a pilot flying her for the first time , by apparently stopping if and whenever the revs drop below 1800 , when the most horrendous mixture-timing ‘ flat-spot ’ occurs and it all goes quiet up front . |
| 13 | And Carolyn Dalzell , 18 , claims her landlord has thrown her out of the house blaming her for the fire . |
| 14 | He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought . |
| 15 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 16 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 17 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 18 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 19 | As she drove back home through the traffic , memories of her father 's authoritarian presence , vigorously admonishing her for the sinfulness of some childlike request , filled her mind with pain and loathing . |
| 20 | I found him cursing her for the border . |
| 21 | For one wild moment she thought it was Adam fighting her for the cup ; but it was a more powerful arm that pinned her . |
| 22 | No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors . |
| 23 | He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ . |