Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 2 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 3 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 4 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 5 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 6 | I offered to go with her for company and safety really , since it was dangerous to go out alone in conditions like that . |
| 7 | On the same day that Bathsheba arrived home , Mr Boldwood went to apologize to her for speaking so violently the last time he had seen her . |
| 8 | I had relied on her for support of every kind , long after I was grown-up . |
| 9 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 10 | Nobody had looked after her for years , he had been quite right about that . |
| 11 | ACTRESS Jean Marsh is not flattered by a description of the rose she had named after her for her role as the maid , Rose , in Upstairs Downstairs . |
| 12 | On coming upstairs , he had turned to her for comfort , desperate to make love , needing to feel the growing swell of her body that was his own flesh and blood and , as always , he was moved to tears by it . |
| 13 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 14 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |
| 15 | Edward had watched over her for hours , even refusing to go down to the lock with his friends for days , though he loved to play there . |
| 16 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 17 | When Tallis rode up this narrow track she sent stones tumbling to the glittering water below her , and at a certain height she stopped to listen to the sound , recognizing it from a time in childhood , from a time when she had summoned images of another world , and Harry had called to her for help . |
| 18 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 19 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
| 20 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |
| 21 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 22 | She watched him hug the child to him , then straighten up , and now he stood glaring at her for a moment . |