Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] her for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 2 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 3 | So I intended to try flying her for the assembly , and carefully got her down to her flying weight . |
| 4 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 5 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 6 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 7 | She had not merely been a housekeeper but her qualities of efficiency , cheerfulness and gastronomic expertise seemed to fit her for the task of looking after this unusual pair . |
| 8 | His eyes seemed to study her for a moment . |
| 9 | Luke 's kiss , withheld to torment her for a moment while he stared into her darkened eyes , was an insult when it came , and yet insufficient to her hunger , because his mouth was torn away from hers again almost at once , plunging to suckle hard at one exposed breast for several agonising seconds , the message blatant — she was desired , and despised . |
| 10 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 11 | That ‘ little grey home in the west ’ idea was n't going to fool her for a minute ; it was easy to see that the man sitting next to her loved every minute of his fast-living , action-packed life . |
| 12 | And erm they were going to send her for an interview straight away . |
| 13 | Then one day , when she came out of school there was a car waiting to take her for a screen test , and something magical happened as soon as she stood in front of a camera , and she became an actress , a real actress not a washed-up joke like her mother , and everyone admired her . |
| 14 | At the war 's end , charity assembled to comfort her for a brief moment and whilst wishing her long life , nevertheless dispersed and never reassembled . |
| 15 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 16 | Shiona felt her control desert her for a moment . |
| 17 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 18 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 19 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 20 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 21 | The policewoman decided to believe her for the moment . |
| 22 | The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address . |
| 23 | And she was hoping that they would have sent her for an interview down there . |
| 24 | The daughter no longer had to provide care but said ‘ I merely go to see her for a chat and the company nowadays ’ . |
| 25 | Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears . |
| 26 | No doubt about it , he meant to corner her for the evening . |
| 27 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 28 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 29 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 30 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |