Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Nathan Bryce had only to look at her for her heart to skip a beat , then race out of control . |
| 2 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 3 | Still half asleep he smiled indulgently , scenting a victory , since he had wanted to be generous all day and had been feeling mildly irritated with her for not giving him the opportunity . |
| 4 | Lovely , would n't mind fucking going with her for a night I tell ya . |
| 5 | I have hardly thought of her for at least a week ; I am free of the little stabs of pain and the scudding dark clouds which had a habit of appearing from nowhere , uninvited and unexpected . |
| 6 | ‘ We have made Ygelda the new Steward , and she says it will be nothing new to her for Gwion was always running to her for help . ’ |
| 7 | Faye could not paint or draw while lying in bed , but in the mornings Belinda usually read to her for an hour while she rested her eyes , then left her alone for the remainder of the morning to rest or scribble ideas for future painting projects . |
| 8 | Neva 's heart nearly burst within her for pride and joy at being chosen by such a noble knight . |
| 9 | She often laughed at her for her staidness , for her virtue , for her faithfulness to stodgy Tony — who was very sweet , for all that — but they rubbed along on it OK . |
| 10 | Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement . |
| 11 | We kissed goodnight , and I again apologised to her for the fright she had . |
| 12 | Yet Mrs Thatcher 's unassailable , inaccessible image was explicitly fashioned by her for the media . |
| 13 | People had actually laughed at her for asking for a chemistry set instead of a Barbie doll or a set of Nancy Drew books . |
| 14 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 15 | And we had to laugh , he said , well can you be ill a bit longer because he , er , he cooked her something to eat and he feeds her and so when I rang up I never got her on th , I never spoke to her for a week ! |