Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane believes that her mother was often stressed to the point of despair at this time , ‘ … that she suffered all the torments and tribulations of every working mother without anything in her background , education or make-up having prepared her for such an emotional wrenching . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ This business has knocked her for six . ’ |
| 3 | She could find only her chequebook and the small , leather-bound directory Jasper had given her for Christmas and into which , to gratify the child , she had painstakingly copied the addresses and phone numbers of friends accumulated throughout a lifetime . |
| 4 | She took one last look at herself in the wardrobe mirror before she pulled on the sheepskin that her father had bought her for Christmas . |
| 5 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 6 | Nothing in her life had prepared her for this wanton fire , burning and aching inside her . |
| 7 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 8 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 9 | The pause had steadied her for a while but then it enabled the gnawing to chew on her once more . |
| 10 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 11 | Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside . |
| 12 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 13 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 14 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |