Example sentences of "[vb past] her [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 2 | I helped her prepare for the date , pressing her nicest blouse , lending her my best necklace and polishing her shoes . |
| 3 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 4 | Now in receipt of government support ( and offering particular help for people under 30 ) , the Trust helped her apply for a Westminster Enterprise grant . |
| 5 | I sat with her , gave her my drink bottle , stuffed her with glucose and encouraged her to rest for a while . |
| 6 | When Moran pressed her to come for the Christmas dinner , she refused . |
| 7 | Clare watched her eating for a moment . |
| 8 | He made her wait for an answer as he topped the teapot up with hot water and Ruth 's imagination went off on its own . |
| 9 | He saw it made her think for a moment , about him . |
| 10 | This led her to search for a continuous tradition which had been activated by occult means and linked the French and Russian Revolutions . |
| 11 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 12 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |
| 13 | She dealt with them , then attended to various other tasks which kept her occupied for the remainder of the afternoon . |
| 14 | PALACEGATE EPISODE ended her racing for the season on a winning note yesterday . |