Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] her for " in BNC.

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1 He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time .
2 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 .
3 Barbara Newington from Connecticut remembered shaking hands effusively with Reagan at the beginning and end of her audience , and each of them saying thank you to the other ; but precisely what she was thanking him for , and what he was thanking her for , neither said .
4 Privately , Robbie considered he was over-reacting , that he was blaming her for his own inability to work today .
5 She slept badly , with what sleep she did get punctuated with dreams where Barney was driving away in her car , and where Cara was blaming her for letting him take it .
6 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 .
7 There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station .
8 John was taking her for granted , so were the children .
9 If I 'm caught , I 'll say I was lifting her for myself . ’
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