Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 She saw her tutor 's enquiring look and dismissed her benefactor for the moment .
2 Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces .
3 Now that she 's vented her spite for the evening , she wo n't even notice you 're missing , but if anyone asks I 'll tell them you 're suffering from toothache . ’
4 Yet it never entered her head for a moment to think that Prince Charles was remotely interested in romance .
5 She cracked her face for a while .
6 Sharpe caught her eye for a second , then turned away as Lucille ran to him .
7 Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea .
8 The pain had made her lose her breath for a few seconds .
9 A jury has been told that a woman accused of trying to kill her ex-boyfriend for the insurance money had no motive .
10 An aunt lent her house for the occasion , my mother did most of the cooking helped by my sister , and my mother-in-law baked the cake .
11 Trish voiced her support for the vice-presidential campaign of Gerlandine Ferraro .
12 Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day .
13 She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her .
14 ‘ The new owner of the Enderley estate is a hard man , or he 'd never have the heart to turn her out , even if he does want her cottage for a gamekeeper .
15 She was gathering her strength for the season of ice that must settle over Munding Rectory .
16 Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse .
17 And I 'm sure she 's long ago forgiven her dad for the pain he unwittingly caused her .
18 ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’
19 Diana asked her sister for a lift to London .
20 She asked her aunt for a little money , for the first time , shuffling her feet and keeping her eyes shyly down .
21 She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart .
22 Mrs Coleridge may have felt that the Blue Coat School would best prepare her son for the clerical career John Coleridge had wished him to follow .
23 ‘ Well , of course , this will affect her availability for the show . ’
24 A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet .
25 Anna checked her stocklist for the shelf allocation for the poppadoms ( plain , spiced , garlic and chilli , ready-cooked ) with all the slick professionalism of three hours ' experience .
26 The local newspaper published a letter from the Queen Mother , as patron of the Georgian Group , expressing her concern for the building .
27 The Duchess of York says her work for the Motor Neurone Disease Association saved her sanity after she was pictured topless on holiday with financial advisor John Bryan .
28 The week of that first production of Luxembourg , Karl had been absolutely beastly to her — really hurtful about her performance as Juliette which , as she was desperately saving her voice for the other productions , she tended to talk her way through .
29 In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military .
30 As she clambered over the steep Alpine meadows with Portia , she told her friend for the first time about Thomas and how he had helped her when she had nowhere to go .
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