Example sentences of "[verb] her for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't recognise her for some time . |
| 2 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 3 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 4 | After tea she unpacked her shabby and much-mended clothes ( no chance of getting stockings for Christmas now , unless Felicity had a practical fit and sent her some ! ) and wrote two letters : a polite little note to Miss Henry , thanking her for past kindness , and a lengthy epistle to Gay , telling her the gloomy news . |
| 5 | The Clerk was to send a letter of apology to Mrs thanking her for twenty years of service and ask if she 'd reconsider the job . |
| 6 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 7 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 8 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 9 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 10 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 11 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 12 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 13 | I have n't seen her for two weeks now . |
| 14 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 15 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 16 | I have n't seen her for bloody ages . |
| 17 | " I have n't seen her for several weeks then she came in about two hours ago — sort of staggered into the kitchen , and she was carrying the kitten in her mouth . |
| 18 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 19 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 20 | I really missed her if I did n't see her for six hours . |
| 21 | We 've had her for eight years . ’ |
| 22 | He says yes , I 've had her for thirteen years , but I 'm building another one , also with a steam engine . |
| 23 | And it was then she finally asked me a question that has bothered her for twenty years . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 25 | I went to my G P , having avoided her for fifteen years , having getting the old story every time you went well you must go on a diet ! |
| 26 | It seems that she had fallen in love with him but she " did n't know where I was at all " with him ; he would be most affectionate towards her and then , for no apparent reason , seemed to avoid her for protracted periods . |
| 27 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 28 | I taught her for several hours every day in the library , although it was not easy to make her concentrate on anything for long , as she was clearly not used to the discipline of lessons . |
| 29 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 30 | So instead , a confident horseperson was engaged to do battle with Honey , but after riding her for two weeks Honey 's behaviour was worse . |