Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | I thought she might add , ‘ And she 's bloody well going to wear it ’ , but my mother had said her piece for the moment . |
| 33 | Mrs Hancock , the girl from the other side of the tracks , had always professed her love for the rough , tough ex-miner who made a fortune and espoused the most outlandish ideas . |
| 34 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 35 | On his way to the restaurant he passed a man and a woman arm in arm , a man walking purposefully , as if late for an appointment , a woman standing next to her car and searching her bag for the key . |
| 36 | Fred could see her hatred for the man showing plainly on her face , and he thought of Nellie 's closing words which kept running around inside his head . |
| 37 | It was too dear to her to take on ‘ the degraded position of a woman who had forsaken husband and child and formed a union with her lover … she would always be a guilty woman continually threatened with exposure , deceiving her husband for the sake of a shameful union with a man who was a stranger and independent of her , and with whom she could not live a united life . |
| 38 | In what must rank as one of the most ingenious ruses in the history of Hampden Babylon , Patsy Gallacher struck up a relationship with the hotel chambermaid and borrowed her clothes for the night . |
| 39 | A woman shows her support for the South West Africa People 's Organisation ( Swapo ) at an election rally in Windhoek . |
| 40 | Putting aside his choice of partner , the lady who publicly declared her support for the barbaric practice of ‘ necklacing ’ those who step out of line , there is his friendship with Col Gaddafi , who is said to have paid the bill for the ANC leader 's recent tour of North Africa , as well as contributing $135,000 to Mrs Mandela 's defence . |
| 41 | She had recently changed her mind and in a moving and closely argued speech declared her support for the combined system . |
| 42 | Anyway we 've only got her word for the whole story . |
| 43 | He undid her nightgown and admired her body for the first time . |
| 44 | Thomas Carlyle had suggested to Elizabeth Gaskell that she should ‘ use her pen for the public good ’ and this both husband and wife tried to do in their way . |
| 45 | She reserved her temper for the horse . |
| 46 | Nicci Gerrard in the Observer reckoned Conran had cribbed the plot from King Lear and indicated her preference for the original , which was hardly biting , but Ruth Dudley Edwards in The Independent ( ’ bilge ’ ) and Moira Shearer in this paper ( ’ high-flown twaddle ’ ) did n't mess about and Julie Burchill in The Spectator ( ’ truly appalling book … ) was predictably excoriating . |
| 47 | Arriving after a gruelling 13 hour flight , appeared bright and full of energy , almost immediately giving a press conference where she expressed her fears for the future of peace and democracy in her country . |
| 48 | Choosing to turn a blind eye to the unlikely drama that was unfolding a few feet in front of her , she merely expressed her gratitude for the imitation topaz bangle that she 'd just unwrapped , before turning on her heels and heading downstairs to catch the special seasonal episode of Crossroads . |
| 49 | Study her grammalogues in the shorthand , take a sharp interest in the book-keeping , flex her fingers for the typing , practising over and over . |
| 50 | We did not miss your father , ’ she said in a hard voice that betrayed her contempt for the man . |
| 51 | In 1894 she was in a position to build her own home at Munstead Wood and it was Lutyens , sharing her feelings for the Surrey vernacular and the arts and crafts lifestyle , who designed it for her . |
| 52 | Dinah thanked her salary for the latter 's white-painted existence , and the fact that she had thrashed Lilian enough to ensure silence among the rest . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | She just hoped he had n't recognised her start for the violent sexual reaction it had been — a totally ridiculous reaction , she told herself , since she was n't in the least attracted to Fenton Marshall . |
| 55 | Marina then blamed her husband for the act and this revived interest in the sudden death of Bacon 's mother , Ann , at Stamford in May 1855 . |
| 56 | Also , perhaps , that sometimes at night , she finds her crying for the starving of Africa or unable to sleep with the terror of the possibility of nuclear war or desperately seeking a denial of the reality of the horror of the Holocaust . |
| 57 | In a postscript Eliza somewhat enigmatically mentions her pregnancy for the first time : |
| 58 | She 'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half . |
| 59 | Rosie Barnes 's pretty face , not unlike the young Margaret Thatcher , is etched with disappointment and pain as she hears she has failed to keep her seat for the Liberal Democrats in Greenwich . |
| 60 | He saw her as he called her name for the third time . |