Example sentences of "[v-ing] her for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was he just making polite conversation with his uninvited guest , or was he pumping her for information ? |
| 2 | Nina had her hand in the other girl 's handbag , and was begging her for money in exactly the same terms she had used on him while begging for heroin . |
| 3 | But she was gone before I could finish asking her for help , borne away by three identically dressed musketeers , waving her whip in the air , and lost in the crowds again . |
| 4 | Obviously she will often clash with the adults who are grooming her for life . |
| 5 | Police spent three hours persuading her to leave the car before taking her for counselling at a police station . |
| 6 | But doctors decided not to patch up her wounds in casualty for fear of scarring her for life . |
| 7 | But doctors decided not to patch up her wounds in casualty for fear of scarring her for life . |
| 8 | Borrowing her for dissertation research was one thing — she was sure now that this was the reason behind her removal from the hospital — but a release seemed , frankly , unlikely . |