Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hyacinth , who could not catch her breath for excitement , found herself in the arms of the Prime Minister . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What woman , in fact , however firm her beliefs , would not sacrifice her religion for her children ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They did not share her enthusiasm for peace and space and wide skies . |
| 7 | But his lack of affection for her did n't lessen her love for him , nor did she give up hope that she would one day be able to make him feel genuinely fond of her . |
| 8 | Either she was a Madonna and people did n't give her credit for being one , or else she was trying to be one and people were trying to stop her or possibly she was being forced to be one against her better judgement . |
| 9 | She might be in for a long wait : Bella did n't break her routine for anyone . |
| 10 | If she were rich , that would n't stop her caring for children , but she could charge only a nominal fee to the mothers who badly needed to work . |
| 11 | ‘ Your mother does n't operate her career for your amusement , Princess , ’ her father admonished , pinching Tina 's cheek . |
| 12 | ‘ And she ca n't forgive her husband for it . ’ |
| 13 | she probably would n't become a manager , because usually you think you can change and develop but I think she 'll be then be able to become a manager and she 'll sort of learn , but she 'd have to actually change her personality for it . |