Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] her for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 2 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 3 | I interviewed her for a nature programme . |
| 4 | I paid her for the call , and stayed chatting for a while , answering her queries about the cottage and then telling her of my brother 's expected arrival , and the possibility that he might telephone with a message . |
| 5 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 6 | As we left I thanked her for the ‘ nice tea ’ and off we went . |
| 7 | I thanked her for the dance and Werewolf bowed deeply to her ‘ girlfriend ’ ( Oxnard , California ) , which made her day , as they say in those parts . |
| 8 | Can I have her for a minute ? |
| 9 | Can I have her for a minute ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A few days after the Argentinian surrender , I saw her for a meeting on health service pay . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The next time I take her for a walk , I 'm not going to let her out of my sight , ’ he said . |
| 14 | No I 'm not , erm if I , if I take her for a long run . |
| 15 | And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason . |
| 16 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 17 | Shall we take her for a walk ? |
| 18 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
| 19 | They let me hold her for a few minutes and then they took her away upstairs to Special Care . |
| 20 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 21 | I found him cursing her for the border . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've seen the looks people give Jenny when they see her for the first time , ’ says her mother , Helen . |
| 23 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
| 24 | Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . |
| 25 | When he failed to persuade her to cancel it , he asked her for a date — and romance blossomed . |
| 26 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
| 27 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 28 | The blue eyes narrowed as he regarded her for a moment . |
| 29 | He regarded her for a moment as though considering what she 'd told him . |
| 30 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |