Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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1 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
2 | Therefore , as soon as Isabelle was old enough , it was decided to exploit her aptitude for art by sending her to Paris — out of harm 's way . ’ |
3 | ‘ She has agreed to stop her writing for a while , and become Head Nurse of my hospital . ’ |
4 | He had offered to tell her fortune for nothing if she went there with him . |
5 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
6 | The head of the Bureau said the pressure had become so intense by the end of the afternoon , and Blanche had proved so elusive , he had been forced to phone her boss for advice . |
7 | Rosie Barnes 's pretty face , not unlike the young Margaret Thatcher , is etched with disappointment and pain as she hears she has failed to keep her seat for the Liberal Democrats in Greenwich . |