Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She blinked and tried to hide her longing for him . |
| 2 | Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea . |
| 3 | John had been moved to Norfolk and promoted to Corporal and he wrote to Anne nearly every day , loving letters which helped to make her grief for her mother more bearable . |
| 4 | She noted the breadth of his shoulders , the long legs and dark good looks , and decided Kate had better taste than she 'd given her credit for . |
| 5 | This favourite phrase of hers , meaning uninformed opinion , seemed to underline her contempt for the situation in which I had placed myself : the young , married woman , abdicating intellectual effort , doing nothing but washing and cleaning and caring for her baby . |
| 6 | But the girl seemed to leave her hanging for ages . |
| 7 | The teddy-boy seemed to take her listlessness for acquiescence . |
| 8 | So I started changing her nappy for her and she decided she was going to take off . |
| 9 | ‘ After all , Alice did sacrifice her virtue for you and that grubby brat of a brother — Edward , was it ? ’ |
| 10 | I had heard her cry for them in the night . |
| 11 | She now remembered how she had criticized her mother for bringing babies into the world without being able to look after them . |
| 12 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 13 | Scarlet had just thrown away a bunch of dried Proveņcal flowers which had adorned her sideboard for over a year and was already feeling slightly better : she thought that if only she could rearrange all the furniture , she might be cured , but it seemed too drastic a step to take . |
| 14 | All his life he had sought her pardon for the failure which she either could not or would not spell out for him . |
| 15 | Karen had done her bit for me and I would have been more than happy to reciprocate . |
| 16 | I thought she might add , ‘ And she 's bloody well going to wear it ’ , but my mother had said her piece for the moment . |
| 17 | But it was starting to worry her that he could so openly refer to her running away from him , and since she had no intention of going into the ‘ whys ’ and ‘ wherefores ’ of that , and since she had made her apology for deceiving him — and had got off rather lightly , she had to admit — Fabia got to her feet . |
| 18 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 19 | ‘ That particular group do , ’ said Rachel , and found herself wondering if that was what David had visited her family for — to discuss the possibility of Jennifer going to Conway House . |
| 20 | In fact , if Matilda 's messenger had n't carried a letter to the Queen explaining the ‘ unfortunate misunderstanding ’ that had resulted in Isabel 's ‘ ill-considered ’ flight from Gloucester with fitzAlan 's assistance , she was quite sure William of Ypres would have clapped her into prison until he had verified her story for himself . |
| 21 | After paying for her younger sister 's lavish wedding last autumn he had begun saving for the world cruise he had promised her mother for their thirtieth wedding anniversary . |
| 22 | It was reported on Aug. 3 that the Supreme Court of New South Wales had awarded damages of A$2,850,000 ( US$2,224,500 ) to a teenage girl who had sued her mother for negligence committed whilst the girl was still a foetus . |
| 23 | Then , Bert and Jasper — but not Jack , a fact which had to give her food for thought — met a certain comrade in a certain private house in a suburb . |
| 24 | She had timed her arrival for half an hour after the party was due to commence , calculating that this would find the host and hostess busy with other guests , leaving her free to mingle and , with any luck , to slip away early . |
| 25 | The one , two , three and then four hours since she had acknowledged her love for Ven alternately dawdled and then flew for Fabia . |
| 26 | She had asked her mother for something to eat over and over again , until finally she had decided to get it herself . |
| 27 | Firstly , although Isabelle had kindled her love for foreign languages by teaching her their own native tongue , at the same time she 'd been strangely reticent about her own life . |
| 28 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
| 29 | Kelly shook her head incredulously ; Ibn Fayoud had taken her acceptance for granted . |
| 30 | Luke had taken her silence for assent . |