Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its cries of distress saddened her for years . |
| 2 | After the Anglo-French reconciliation of 1303 , Edward wrote to Marie of France thanking her for her letters in which she expressed her desire for a meeting and conversation between him and her stepson , Philip the Fair . |
| 3 | And when the bridal party came out into the church porch and stood blinking and smiling in the winter daylight , Sir Felix Lark , his wild eyes excessively unstable , was instantly at Linnet 's elbow , topping the suave invitations of Mr Adolphus Moon to meet his artistic friends with offers to mount her for the Far Flatley hunt . |
| 4 | A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea . |
| 5 | Thus it is that the Tamar , beautiful as the nymph whose name she bears , winds her way from the rugged north coast between the hills , to be joined by the Tavy , flowing from Dartmoor to join her for the last few miles to the sea , while the luckless Torridge flows ever northward in vain pursuit of Tamara 's beauty . |
| 6 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The girls at work admired her for living with a man and not being married to him , but she could forgo that pleasure , she thought , for the baby 's sake . |