Example sentences of "[adv] for her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Countess was known locally for her frequent visits to the sick and the infirm and never at a loss for a generous word or gesture . |
| 2 | MALE dunnocks ( Prunella modularis ) may be willing to share a single female , but they compete intensely for her reproductive favours . |
| 3 | Not the one who wanted , for goodness sake , to have a different matching shopping trolly for her different outfits But how much I agree with the lady who wanted the cost of High Street Christmas lights spent on something more practical . |
| 4 | But what she forgot as she jogged on the spot was that even though time might have stood still for her , it has moved on for her 31-year-old husband Slim Jim McDonald . |
| 5 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 6 | HALEMA STAYED FOR three days , just long enough for her round figure bobbing up and down the beach to become familiar , long enough for the affection she exuded to be returned tenfold . |
| 7 | Burma is fortunate in that she has enough for her own needs , though she was only just able to ensure this during the last harvest . |
| 8 | ‘ Seven o'clock for her next dose . |
| 9 | So much for her rash assumptions of compassion ! |
| 10 | She had thought , wrongly , that she could allow the love which she had begun to feel for Dr Neil to express itself , only for her deepest instincts to take over when in beginning to make love to her he had unwittingly reminded her so strongly of what … he had done to her . |
| 11 | ALL THE PAIN THAT MONEY CAN BUY : The Life of Christina Onassis by William Wright Gollancz , £5.99 MANY MIGHT think that Christina Onassis 's 37 years of life , notable only for her four marriages and succession of lovers , is not worth a full-scale biography , certainly not one of almost 400 pages . |
| 12 | BEVERLEY Allitt attended a local school in Lincolnshire and was noticed only for her constant attempts to be at the centre of attention . |
| 13 | If the lad was a bit stern with her at times , it was only for her own good . ’ |
| 14 | Mrs Toop had eleven other children and did not cry too long for her lost son . |
| 15 | ALIEN star Sigourney Weaver , 43 , above , is letting her hair down for her latest role as America 's first lady in a comedy called Dave . |
| 16 | The gardener they had taken on also came in for her unspoken dissatisfaction . |
| 17 | Feeling on the close-knit estate was running so high that officers took the grandmother away for her own safety . |
| 18 | Phoebe smiled , and allowed herself an unusual and agreeable start of gratitude to Rachel , not just for her consistent kindness to Maggie , but also , freshly , for her generosity and understanding towards herself . |
| 19 | Just for her own satisfaction she pulled the very worst one she could think of — worse than any of Oz 's — with her cheeks blown out , her eyes crossed and the tip of her tongue protruding . |
| 20 | Sinead O'Connor should be congratulated for her stand ( what the hell does Bob Dylan do these days ? ) against church hypocrisy but not for her recent album which is , to be frank , boring . |
| 21 | Though we threaten her with a headline reading ‘ Real Labour candidates do n't eat muesli ’ she insists that it 's not for her own consumption . |
| 22 | Hawkins is a busy authorial presence in this Bildungsroman , which she dedicated to Henrietta Maria Bowdler [ q.v. ] , not for her own writings but as friend and editor of the scholar Elizabeth Smith [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | She would have to exert her will and fight against the pain-consuming darkness , if not for her own sake , then for theirs . |
| 24 | While she waited for the water to come to the boil she put on her boudoir cap to conceal the steel haircurlers ( dragon 's teeth through the night but never mind that ) , and her Jaeger dressing-gown ( which cost the awful sum of £5 ) , and set forth for her regular deliverance on the lavatory . |
| 25 | Thus the Decorator collection , into which she plunged more and more of her energies , was not only a useful device for slicing through hidebound public taste , but gave Laura a focus once more for her creative effervescence . |
| 26 | Alternating between wide-eyed bewilderment and shaking grief , she endeavours to put her past behind her , and set up home for her new love . |
| 27 | It felt too much as if she was shunting him off for her own convenience , even though she knew that it was the only sane and sensible thing to do . |
| 28 | Tears stung her eyes a moment at the thought of her sister losing her identity ; Jezrael asked herself if the grief was for Ches or selfishly for her own loss . |
| 29 | As she was seven months pregnant at the time , Geraldine feared not only for herself but also for her unborn child . |
| 30 | All the gentlemen admired her , not only for her beauty but also for her musical skills . |