Example sentences of "[verb] her [verb] for the " in BNC.
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1 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
2 | Rachel cheers me up by saying she was leaving anyhow , and if he wants her to pay for the night then she will and to hell with it . |
3 | I helped her prepare for the date , pressing her nicest blouse , lending her my best necklace and polishing her shoes . |
4 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
5 | I found I had to get Dawn 's weight down much more than I 'd expected , or would have wished , just to persuade her to come for the food on my fist . |
6 | When Moran pressed her to come for the Christmas dinner , she refused . |
7 | Her contract with the company was temporary , allowing her to cover for the emergency created by Bob Nichols ' illness . |
8 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
9 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |
10 | She dealt with them , then attended to various other tasks which kept her occupied for the remainder of the afternoon . |
11 | In Eliza 's fourth letter home to her mother ( the third was lost ) in which she again expresses her yearning for the children , she also describes her developing attachment to the Franklins , and her husband 's first significant expedition under their auspices : |
12 | Some part of her tried to convince her to make for the door , but she knew they would expect that . |
13 | He has a well-paid job but he expects her to pay for the family car |
14 | It would save her waiting for the rain to stop , and the way the rain was pelting down it looked as if it never would stop . |
15 | PALACEGATE EPISODE ended her racing for the season on a winning note yesterday . |
16 | ‘ I shall ask her to stay for the wedding , ’ said my mother . |