Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun sg] for the " 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 | Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea . |
| 5 | A jury has been told that a woman accused of trying to kill her ex-boyfriend for the insurance money had no motive . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Trish voiced her support for the vice-presidential campaign of Gerlandine Ferraro . |
| 8 | Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day . |
| 9 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 10 | She was gathering her strength for the season of ice that must settle over Munding Rectory . |
| 11 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 12 | And I 'm sure she 's long ago forgiven her dad for the pain he unwittingly caused her . |
| 13 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , of course , this will affect her availability for the show . ’ |
| 17 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The local newspaper published a letter from the Queen Mother , as patron of the Georgian Group , expressing her concern for the building . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | All his life he had sought her pardon for the failure which she either could not or would not spell out for him . |
| 25 | One example of how she uses her position for the good of the game , and for others , occurred in October when , suffering from a painful wrist injury and against her doctor 's advice , she played an exhibition , not for personal gain , but to raise money for multiple sclerosis . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I thought she might add , ‘ And she 's bloody well going to wear it ’ , but my mother had said her piece for the moment . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 30 | 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 . |