Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy Ashcroft duly got her gong for playing Lilian , 50 years in the bin , but She 's Been Away was considerably more than a kind of Rain Woman ; a vehicle for acting technique . |
| 2 | it is an artists ' book of the first order , the making of which has been managed from beginning to end by the artist herself , thereby satisfying her desire for creative control over every aspect of its production . |
| 3 | Anyway we 've only got her word for the whole story . |
| 4 | Choosing to turn a blind eye to the unlikely drama that was unfolding a few feet in front of her , she merely expressed her gratitude for the imitation topaz bangle that she 'd just unwrapped , before turning on her heels and heading downstairs to catch the special seasonal episode of Crossroads . |
| 5 | When she was fully dressed and made-up , she called Jenny in to do her hair for her . |
| 6 | Obviously taking her silence for agreement , he gave a little snort of disgust . |
| 7 | At first the Jones said that there was nothing Olwyn liked enough to change her behaviour for and that punishment meant absolutely nothing to her . |
| 8 | Wanda from New Jersey phoned in to say her need for the taste of blood was a clinical necessity without which the withdrawal symptoms were ‘ just awful , ya wouldn ’ wan na go through it Jerry , ’ she told her host . |
| 9 | Mrs Coleridge may have felt that the Blue Coat School would best prepare her son for the clerical career John Coleridge had wished him to follow . |
| 10 | He would persuade her that he loved her , ask her to promise to run away with him if her father refused his consent to their marriage , and , when he finally asked her father for her hand , threaten him with the prospect of his daughter 's elopement — he and Jared Tunstall both knew how self-willed his daughter was , and that any threat from her would not be idle . |
| 11 | He suggested she develop an interest of her own , generously allowing her space for something else , when all her heart and mind was his forever and ever , amen . |
| 12 | Devastated , Charles was determined not to lose her love for good . |
| 13 | Hyacinth , who could not catch her breath for excitement , found herself in the arms of the Prime Minister . |
| 14 | From a traditional Labour background , my mother rejected the politics of solidarity and communality , always voted Conservative , for the left could not embody her desire for things to be really fair , for a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth , for a half-timbered cottage in the country , for the prince who did not come . |
| 15 | What woman , in fact , however firm her beliefs , would not sacrifice her religion for her children ? |
| 16 | He had no doubt that it was something devious , and her tone indicated she had already made her choice for him . |
| 17 | The week of that first production of Luxembourg , Karl had been absolutely beastly to her — really hurtful about her performance as Juliette which , as she was desperately saving her voice for the other productions , she tended to talk her way through . |
| 18 | Apart from the fact that she believed her teeth to be on the point of falling out , she had not had her period for several weeks and was afraid that she was barren . |
| 19 | In a postscript Eliza somewhat enigmatically mentions her pregnancy for the first time : |
| 20 | Sally-Anne Tunstall , beloved daughter of Senator Jared Tunstall , arguably the richest man in the USA , and his dear wife Mary , niece of Orrin Tunstall , the American ambassador , society beauty , heiress , spoiled child of fortune , who had once thought that the world was her ball to play with , sat on her bed in an East End attic , dressed in her skivvy 's clothing , grieving because she could not consummate her love for a poor doctor who had renounced the world over which she had once reigned . |
| 21 | They did not share her enthusiasm for peace and space and wide skies . |
| 22 | She wanted somehow to have her mother for herself , but only so that she could reject her herself . |
| 23 | Nigel rather admired her talent for symbolism . |
| 24 | Maud salvaged him as usual by noticing nothing , and he mistakenly respected her instinct for dealing with his doldrums . |
| 25 | Mrs Hancock , the girl from the other side of the tracks , had always professed her love for the rough , tough ex-miner who made a fortune and espoused the most outlandish ideas . |
| 26 | This seemed a suitable area on which to work , and we proceeded in precisely the same way as before , with Sylvia imagining the situation under hypnosis and then going off to do her homework for however long was necessary . |
| 27 | She broke off to berate her son for a few minutes . |
| 28 | She 'd already phoned home to check her answering-machine for messages , now she was free to head north . |
| 29 | I also checked her urine for sugar as she now had vaginal thrush although this was probably due to the antibiotics . |
| 30 | Meticulously , she sucked him dry , and stood up to open her mouth for him to see his seed swimming over her pink tongue and gums . |