Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watch her face for traces of nervousness ; she does not flinch . |
| 2 | I received a straightforward message recently when I telephoned her flat for a chat : ‘ Elizabeth says she 's busy . ’ |
| 3 | I monitor her face for reactions to that familiar and , for us , unlucky surname . |
| 4 | ‘ She spent Christmas with me and my wife Pam and I took her dog for a walk . ’ |
| 5 | Outside in the street I took her hand for the first time . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |
| 7 | I bought her chocolate for her last week . |
| 8 | Suddenly I recognized her attitude for what it was . |
| 9 | And the secular armies which established her hegemony for her on the Continent were in no position to undertake a full-scale military campaign against Ireland . |
| 10 | She is a keen skier and wears a jacket with skiers on the back which gave her inspiration for her design . |
| 11 | Since 1981 she has been feature-writing for the bi-monthly alumni magazine of the University of Massachusetts , which gives her scope for science reporting and reporting on contemporary issues . |
| 12 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 13 | My Mam was a very attractive , passionate , extrovert womon who lived her life for my Dad and for all of us . |
| 14 | The committee had heard she sold her kidney for £3,265 . |
| 15 | Amanda claims she got her eye for good antique furniture from her grandfather . |
| 16 | She asked her aunt for a little money , for the first time , shuffling her feet and keeping her eyes shyly down . |
| 17 | Notably , she reserves her criticism for Lombroso — not by any means , at the time she was writing , the only person to have made the connection — remarking that his method was merely one of ‘ heaping up instances which support his thesis ’ . |
| 18 | At least she has her family for support and company , and losing some of her friends and social outlets might be less damaging to her than to her single sister . |
| 19 | She has never been to the Caribbean in her life , but most of her friends are black British : to their companionship she owes her aptitude for talking Creole . |
| 20 | She cracked her face for a while . |
| 21 | She blames her mother for this and sees it as a sign of inferiority , thus experiencing penis envy and transfers her affections to her father as he has the penis she wants . |
| 22 | One example of how she uses her position for the good of the game , and for others , occurred in October when , suffering from a painful wrist injury and against her doctor 's advice , she played an exhibition , not for personal gain , but to raise money for multiple sclerosis . |
| 23 | She uses her car for company business ( about 2,000 miles a year ) and it is also available for her private use . |
| 24 | He moved towards her , and instinctively she lifted her face for his kiss . |
| 25 | She lifted her face for his kiss , groaning in soft satisfaction as his mouth claimed hers . |
| 26 | As she clambered over the steep Alpine meadows with Portia , she told her friend for the first time about Thomas and how he had helped her when she had nowhere to go . |
| 27 | The questions she had feared earlier seemed to be taking physical shape in the shadowy corners of the room , phantoms waiting to trap her if she dropped her guard for so much as a second . |
| 28 | She rested her head for a moment against his shoulder and then sat up straight , conscious that she must not ruffle her carefully coiffured hair . |
| 29 | A young child brutally killed , a mother in anguish because she turned her back for seconds : it is a reflection of the society we now live in . |
| 30 | Forcing herself to sit down , she racked her imagination for excuses that might explain his absence . |