Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] her for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oddly , thoughts of the stranger haunted her for the rest of that day . |
| 2 | For this reason above all others she had come very close to declining Philip Swallow 's proposal to nominate her for the Shadow Scheme . |
| 3 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 4 | Her husband , John Pennington , of Southport , Merseyside , was jailed for 15 years in June for hiring a hitman to kill her for the £300,000 insurance . |
| 5 | Amidst the noise of children shouting , women calling across the alley , and dogs barking , Sarah seemed to hear her father condemning her for the way she had behaved these last months , and her misery grew . |
| 6 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 7 | In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then … |
| 8 | Victor Sierra 's ‘ rubber band ’ possesses a great ability to frighten the life out of a pilot flying her for the first time , by apparently stopping if and whenever the revs drop below 1800 , when the most horrendous mixture-timing ‘ flat-spot ’ occurs and it all goes quiet up front . |
| 9 | ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time . |
| 10 | George , who was to be in charge of the wires , having earlier walked round her as if he were the hangman measuring her for the drop , said Mary Deare would come into her own when she flew . |
| 11 | And Carolyn Dalzell , 18 , claims her landlord has thrown her out of the house blaming her for the fire . |