Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | But the girl seemed to leave her hanging for ages . |
| 6 | The teddy-boy seemed to take her listlessness for acquiescence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Scared local authorities refused to accept her body for burial . |
| 9 | She wanted to keep her telephone for emergencies , but " the DHSS said it was a luxury " . |