Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] her for [adj] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow .
2	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 .
3	But actually I had her for half an hour to the commands and everything .
4	So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ?
5	You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge .
6	Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed .
7	He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled .
8	Former model Carol Lawson , 42 , from Park Gate , Hants , refused to hang up on her relationship with neighbour Michael Hughes after he dumped her for another woman .
9	She kinda thought of him as a poet , and I think he loved her for that .
10	He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith .
11	Erm and she 's had seven youngsters and she 's brought them up and she a , on her own she 's had to bring them up cos he left her for another , another woman and erm she had the seven and she 's worked and fought hard cos she would n't ask for a darn thing and er they 're , they 're great those kids , they are , they 're a credit to her , you know , but it 's taken it out of her , she 's
12	‘ He left her for dead .
13	At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years .
14	They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham .

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