Example sentences of "[pron] for her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Caroline found herself seated at the lunch-table next to Romano de Sciorto , a state of affairs which did nothing for her shaky morale . |
2 | But she was quite ready to assign her nuclear units to a NATO Multinational Force ; indeed , she was , in effect , already doing so through the joint targeting of her V-bombers with the US Strategic Air Command , subject to her right to use them for her own purposes if vital national interests were at stake . |
3 | Whatever you may have read or heard about their relationship still can not prepare you for her own account . |
4 | The enforced retirement from academic life proved valuable in other respects as the next decade became a prolific one for her own work . |
5 | Chiding herself for her reflex reaction of fear , Meryl strode to the window and examined the catch . |
6 | She was trembling all over , holding on to the car door for support , despising herself for her own weakness . |
7 | It would have to be the chapel , Isabel decided , scolding herself for her cowardly hesitation . |
8 | She cast a suspicious glance over the lockers and then shook herself for her wild imaginings . |
9 | The other girls disliked her for her outstanding looks and her haughty ways and made no attempt to be friendly on anything but the most superficial level and the pattern cutters and sewing hands hurried home to their families and boyfriends the moment they finished their long day 's work . |
10 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
11 | But a stray recollection of a golliwog Maurice had given her for her fifth birthday undid the effect in an instant and she reached Swans ' Meadow with her eyes red and face blotchy from tears , only to find to her surprise that Ursula was in a similar condition . |
12 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
13 | Anybody would think she was a promiscuous little tart , the way her family reproached her for her single status … |
14 | Her class members thank her for the years of enjoyment she has given them ; her fellow-teachers thank her for her constant support and friendship . |
15 | She lost pearls that had been given to her for her 21st birthday . |
16 | She remembered that Aycliffe had brought up the matter of clothes , that Benedict himself had scolded her for her nip-cheese ways . |
17 | ‘ But Mr Kronquist , as several of you already know , was assisting Mrs Sheila Williams during most of the afternoon in question with the temperamental kaleidoscope allocated to her for her illustrated talk on ‘ Alice ’ . |
18 | So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon , and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony . |
19 | It was perhaps evidence of some restraint that Elena did not oblige Romanians to praise her for her own inventions , but only those expropriated from others . |
20 | Letterman implies that he had to divorce her for her own good ; he could not bear to see so much life force confined in marriage . |
21 | It did have sentimental value ; her mother had given it to her for her twenty-first birthday . |
22 | I expect Charlotte owed her quite as much as I do and loved her for her undemanding support and affection as I did . |
23 | Just as well she had such guts really , because no one was going to love her for her feminine self . |
24 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
25 | Later he teased her for her character-reading ability . |
26 | No , I trimmed it for her last week |
27 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
28 | I want it for her own good . |
29 | I 'd like Mrs Perks to have it for her little boy . |
30 | He would have given anything for her unadulterated attention and approval . |