Example sentences of "[verb] her for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 2 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 3 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 4 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
| 5 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 6 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 7 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 8 | I did n't want Mary to go because I thought I would n't see her for a long time , and I ran over to her and pleaded . |
| 9 | ‘ From what you 've told me , I do n't think we 'll see her for a long time unless your Mr Wyatt finds them , and while he thinks you are Dana he wo n't be looking very hard , will he ? ’ |
| 10 | Yes , said Sister , Mrs Downes had been remarkably lucky , really ; and , yes , Sergeant Lewis could see her for a short while . |
| 11 | Your wife 's very tired — she 's bound to be weak , after losing so much blood — but you can see her for a few minutes . ’ |
| 12 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 13 | It may surprise readers but , since I wrote about her recently , Barbara and I have become good friends , so I rang her up to tell her that I would join her for a good gloat . |
| 14 | A DOCTOR groped a woman patient 's breast while examining her for a stiff neck , a court heard yesterday . |
| 15 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 16 | He said to Mariana , ‘ I 'll take her for a few minutes . |
| 17 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 18 | Anne watched her for a few moments in stunned silence , trying to decide if she meant what she had said . |
| 19 | Elaine watched her for a few minutes before paddling further into the shore , lying on the soft , creamy sand , letting the shallow water caress her feet and legs . |
| 20 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 21 | Confuse a waitress by asking her for a Big Mac and chips ? |
| 22 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |
| 23 | Precisely because Stars & Stripes can not match the speed of Kanza and America , Conner 's designers have optimised her for a narrow light air band of 5–8 knots . |
| 24 | She , Clarissa , was not looking forward to telephoning Lady Southdown , as she was bound to do , to thank her for a lovely evening . |
| 25 | It is clear , moreover , from facts which later became public , that her father King Malcolm had never intended her for a monastic vocation . |
| 26 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 27 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 28 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |
| 29 | That stumped her for a few seconds , then she opened the door to the hallway for me . |
| 30 | No , no , I said to Richard is , is , Debbie not feeling well enough to come here , no I took her for a little ride round the . |