Example sentences of "[vb past] her for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 2 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 3 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 4 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
| 5 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 6 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 7 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 8 | A consultant visiting her sick child at home , blamed her for the terrible housing conditions where she lived . |
| 9 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 10 | Anne watched her for a few moments in stunned silence , trying to decide if she meant what she had said . |
| 11 | Elaine watched her for a few minutes before paddling further into the shore , lying on the soft , creamy sand , letting the shallow water caress her feet and legs . |
| 12 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 15 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 16 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
| 17 | I do n't know what it was , but I instantly fingered her for an obvious goer , sack-artist , dick-idolator , and so on . |
| 18 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |
| 19 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 20 | That stumped her for a few seconds , then she opened the door to the hallway for me . |
| 21 | No , no , I said to Richard is , is , Debbie not feeling well enough to come here , no I took her for a little ride round the . |
| 22 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |
| 23 | ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time . |
| 24 | The sweaty exertions of the players , the movement of their pale , hairy legs , their breathless staccato shouts of ‘ Oh , well played ! ’ and ‘ Just out ! ’ occupied her for a few minutes . |
| 25 | And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason . |
| 26 | Even when Guy left her for the few seconds it took him to remove his own clothes , his murmured words of love and praise still warmed and reassured her . |
| 27 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 28 | Though sometimes , the gentlemen chucked her beneath the chin absently , or gave her a sixpence , and one , even , pushed her for a whole quarter-hour on the swing . |