Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'm caught , I 'll say I was lifting her for myself . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The examination under anaesthesia without consent is inexplicable ( unless it was to punish her for having refused examination when conscious ) . |
| 5 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Privately , Robbie considered he was over-reacting , that he was blaming her for his own inability to work today . |