Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] her for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 2 | I think Simon blamed her for this . ’ |
| 3 | She liked Clara because Clara was bright , and for no other reason : she had no need to like her for any other reason , as she was well equipped with a busy social life and a lover . |
| 4 | No , she 's said , she , she ai n't got the courage to ask her for more money , so I said well just give it a few more weeks and then Anne and Brian 's turn up , if it do n't get any better then , I 'm afraid you got Anne and Brian 's . |
| 5 | Late forties , husband left her for younger woman most likely . |
| 6 | She had not been far behind him , and yet had heard no sound to prepare her for this . |
| 7 | Roman observed her for another few moments . |
| 8 | The Clerk was to send a letter of apology to Mrs thanking her for twenty years of service and ask if she 'd reconsider the job . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I am running out of money , ’ she added , and she crossed her fingers beneath the light blanket which Miss Mates had thrown over her earlier and asked God to forgive her for such dreadful lies , and so many of them . |
| 10 | A FATHER who has every justification for being very proud of his daughter nominates her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 11 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 12 | Starved of emotional nourishment from that quarter , the daughter is brittle and neurotic and , when her boyfriend leaves her for another woman , she takes umbrage , haunts the new love-nest night and day , lets down tyres , makes abusive phone calls and eventually throws a stone through a window and gets herself arrested . |