Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll want to see her for sure . ’ |
| 2 | It was all Wilson could do to thank her for her concern . |
| 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 | The rest of the team is going to miss her and and we 'd like to thank her for all her hard work ( including proof-reading ! ) and now we need a volunteer to join us ! |
| 5 | Martina has delighted me with her form for 14 years which I 'd like to thank her for . |
| 6 | This particular issue of Women 's Art is the last to be produced under the editorship of Genevieve Fox and we would like to thank her for her contribution to the magazine over the last year . |
| 7 | But I enjoyed your tte — tte with Naomi in that choochy little patisserie , although I 'd like to smack her for one or two of her remarks . ’ |
| 8 | I knew you would n't mind having her for just a fortnight . ’ |
| 9 | I had to get one bag I did n't like to ask her for two . |
| 10 | How can I begin to tell her for what reason , in what capacity I live there , the Matron thought . |
| 11 | He wondered how much it would cost to buy her for half an hour . |
| 12 | Shiona felt her control desert her for a moment . |
| 13 | ‘ Had Diana been within 10 miles of Windsor Castle on the day of the fire , they would have blamed her for starting it , ’ admitted a senior royal source last night . |
| 14 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 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 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Oh , what a fool Fernando must have thought her for finding anything suspicious in a locked door . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | No event , however unpleasant , could have marked her for ever . |
| 21 | She is a cold , unfeeling and unresponsive woman : she must be , or Hugo would not have left her for me . |
| 22 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |
| 23 | He blamed it all on business , but could not resist taunting her for expecting him to be at h-er beck and call , while disapproving that he was rich . |
| 24 | And she was hoping that they would have sent her for an interview down there . |
| 25 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |
| 26 | Here she was , imagining that the last half-hour had been a sort of truce — telling Marc all those things about her life on the stage , all those silly , funny , self-mocking stories of disaster and mayhem that were part of the business , and he 'd been sitting there in judgement all that time , working out how much Peter might or might not have paid her for playing the part of his fiancée … |
| 27 | How dared he try to blame her for what had happened ? |
| 28 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 29 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 30 | ‘ He 's your picture , Jake , ’ she used to say over the laddie 's cot , laughing like a witch ; and I could 've killed her for it . ’ |