Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 2 | She wandered through to the kitchen to get her bag , and checked through her notes for the name and address of the Rose Bowl 's usual wholesaler . |
| 3 | I asked about her Home for Unmarried Mothers . |
| 4 | Huntingtower , a story of exotic intrigue , is Ruritanian in tone if not in geography , with the exiled princess imprisoned in an ugly pseudo-Tudor mansion at the instigation of Paul , who needs the jewels she has guarded for her fellow-exiles for his plots against the Evallonian government . |
| 5 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 6 | As ever , Erika peered through her window for a moment or two . |
| 7 | And the woman respected for her concern for the sick and deprived is told : ‘ Not to love is not to live , or it is to live a living death . |
| 8 | She was torn between her love for dancing and her dreams of family life . |
| 9 | Ellen offered me a poisonous smile , but I had no time to worry about her distaste for the militaristic para-medic . |
| 10 | So the following afternoon , as soon as Mrs Wormwood had departed in her car for another session of bingo , Matilda set out for Fred 's house to investigate . |
| 11 | MOTHER-of-two Wendy Pearce was trapped in her home for two days by a ram in her garden . |
| 12 | It all stemmed from her desire for him to leave UNACO . |
| 13 | She was worried about a pair of wild barn owls : they had been nesting in her barn for years and she knew there were young up there , but had n't seen the parent birds going in and out for several days . |
| 14 | After the break-up with Hugh she had resolved to concentrate on her career for the next few years . |
| 15 | ‘ My Aunt Belle was confined to her bed for many years , ’ Finch said , blowing his nose in his health . |
| 16 | As it was , she went down so badly with flu that she had to be confined to her room for the duration . |
| 17 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 18 | She left him there , and went to have a bath : dressed briskly , went downstairs to inspect the damage , had a coffee , looked at her list for the day . |
| 19 | And the kids , then aged eleven and thirteen , sat by her side for four hours holding her hand and telling her she was going to get better . |
| 20 | She dived towards it , anxious some other would-be caller should not beat her to it and begin on one of those endless conversations the French seemed to have , searching through her pockets for change and trying to recall the International dialling code and the number of the line which connected direct with Nick 's office , bypassing the busy switchboard , all at the same time . |
| 21 | ‘ It sometimes takes one that way , ’ she said obscurely , hunting through her handbag for her cigarettes and lighter . |
| 22 | ‘ And , Herr Busacher , I think something must be done about her costumes for the other productions . |
| 23 | ‘ I was looking after her chickens for her until she came home , ’ Liam had cried in the chapel . |
| 24 | Braniel woman Mrs Alexander Dodds ( centre ) , was presented with her prize for the ‘ Best Garden in the Braniel Estate ’ by judges Mr Albert Crooks and Housing Executive district manager Mrs Lorraine Campbell . |
| 25 | Nell pumped up the air , constricting the blood supply , then bled it out again , listening with her stethoscope for the returning pulse . |
| 26 | Despite living with her mother for the past eight years , she saw her foster parents every other weekend and went on holidays with them . |
| 27 | Over the next ten weeks , the new assistant meets with her supervisor for one hour a week , to go through the induction programme in detail . |
| 28 | Although , in manners bound , he held and played with her hand for the rest of the drive home , he felt that he could have done instead with a nice talk about hunting . |
| 29 | She felt that her heart would burst with the ache of love , and searched in her mind for words that would bind him to her and bring him back . |
| 30 | She walked up the path , her sensible shoes making a crunching sound on the gravel , and searched in her handbag for the key to the front door . |