Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
| 2 | Now she had stopped denying her love for Tyler . |
| 3 | Helen Harvey of the Lord Todd has received her presentation for ten years with CCG . |
| 4 | She blinked and tried to hide her longing for him . |
| 5 | Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea . |
| 6 | PREMATURE baby Leah Roberts has won her fight for life . |
| 7 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 8 | A solicitor who was confined to a wheelchair after a routine operation has taken her claim for compensation to the High Court . |
| 9 | A sculptor with a sweet tooth has combined her passion for art and chocolate by making a sculpture out of Mars bars . |
| 10 | In the English translation from the French of her book entitled The Secret of Life and Youth Danièl Ryman — ex-pupil of Mme Maury who has continued her work for over 20 years — writes , ‘ Marguerite Maury possessed some of the eccentricities of genius … she was a veritable whirlwind of energy and enthusiasm , working ceaselessly until , quite literally , she died of sheer overwork , of a stroke during the night of 25 September , 1968 ’ . |
| 11 | She is waiting for you , and look , she has sent her litter for you . ’ |
| 12 | A nurse , who claims her life has been ruined after her knee-cap was shattered in a fall at a superstore , has lost her fight for compensation . |
| 13 | A solicitor who became paralysed after a routine jaw operation has lost her fight for compensation . |
| 14 | I 'm afraid she has lost her ear for baby-talk , though . |
| 15 | In other galleries in Dering Street , Annely Juda has reinforced her floor for an exhibition of three large steel sculptures , with a selection of smaller works and drawings , collages and gravitations , by Eduardo Chillida ( 1 October-14 November ) . |
| 16 | A NURSE who died of cancer has bequeathed her pony for the use of the terminally ill children she devoted her life to . |
| 17 | A NURSE who died of cancer has bequeathed her pony for the use of the terminally ill children she devoted her life to . |
| 18 | From her days as a newsreader on ITN through to Breakfast Time with Frank Bough and more recently The Clothes Show and BSkyB News , Selina 's cool aloofness has tantalised her audience for more than a decade . |
| 19 | John had been moved to Norfolk and promoted to Corporal and he wrote to Anne nearly every day , loving letters which helped to make her grief for her mother more bearable . |
| 20 | She noted the breadth of his shoulders , the long legs and dark good looks , and decided Kate had better taste than she 'd given her credit for . |
| 21 | This favourite phrase of hers , meaning uninformed opinion , seemed to underline her contempt for the situation in which I had placed myself : the young , married woman , abdicating intellectual effort , doing nothing but washing and cleaning and caring for her baby . |
| 22 | But the girl seemed to leave her hanging for ages . |
| 23 | His wife , Sonia Gandhi , was an Italian-born Christian who had made known her distaste for the political life imposed on her husband ; their son Rahul , 21 , and daughter Priyanka , 19 , were too young even to enter the Lok Sabha . |
| 24 | Therefore , as soon as Isabelle was old enough , it was decided to exploit her aptitude for art by sending her to Paris — out of harm 's way . ’ |
| 25 | The teddy-boy seemed to take her listlessness for acquiescence . |
| 26 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 27 | What makes Gatsby 's action even more splendid is that he knows by this time that Daisy is not going to leave her husband for him . |
| 28 | Her new secretary was arriving and was going to share her flat for a while . |
| 29 | After quenching her desire to see and experience new things , she was going to ask her boss for a transfer and move to the nearest city , where the office had its headquarters . |
| 30 | ‘ She has agreed to stop her writing for a while , and become Head Nurse of my hospital . ’ |