Example sentences of "[verb] her [verb] for [art] " 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 | Now in receipt of government support ( and offering particular help for people under 30 ) , the Trust helped her apply for a Westminster Enterprise grant . |
| 6 | " Let her loose for a minute , will you ? " |
| 7 | I sat with her , gave her my drink bottle , stuffed her with glucose and encouraged her to rest for a while . |
| 8 | That 'll keep her going for a wee while . |
| 9 | Mrs Bracken 's varicose veins were playing her up and the doctor had told her to rest for a week . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So she begged Jack to let her go for a swim , as it was so hot that day , out to the reef , where she could find the weed she needed in fresh , young supply . |
| 12 | When Moran pressed her to come for the Christmas dinner , she refused . |
| 13 | Clare watched her eating for a moment . |
| 14 | He made her wait for an answer as he topped the teapot up with hot water and Ruth 's imagination went off on its own . |
| 15 | He saw it made her think for a moment , about him . |
| 16 | Her contract with the company was temporary , allowing her to cover for the emergency created by Bob Nichols ' illness . |
| 17 | This led her to search for a continuous tradition which had been activated by occult means and linked the French and Russian Revolutions . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She dealt with them , then attended to various other tasks which kept her occupied for the remainder of the afternoon . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree . |
| 23 | Some part of her tried to convince her to make for the door , but she knew they would expect that . |
| 24 | He has a well-paid job but he expects her to pay for the family car |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been trying to get her to look for a living-in job , a hotel receptionist maybe , but she wo n't leave her mother . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | However , I think , to borrow her own phrase and tactics , I 'll let her sweat for a bit . |
| 28 | But she seemed to fidget him ; he would let her stay for a while and then say , ‘ Run along , duckie , ca n't you see I 'm busy ? ’ |
| 29 | She maintains the " only " thing she did on business while in hospital was answer letters , which , given the number she received , must have kept her occupied for a fair portion of the day . |
| 30 | PALACEGATE EPISODE ended her racing for the season on a winning note yesterday . |