Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that she 's vented her spite for the evening , she wo n't even notice you 're missing , but if anyone asks I 'll tell them you 're suffering from toothache . ’ |
| 2 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 3 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 4 | And I 'm sure she 's long ago forgiven her dad for the pain he unwittingly caused her . |
| 5 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |
| 6 | All his life he had sought her pardon for the failure which she either could not or would not spell out for him . |
| 7 | I thought she might add , ‘ And she 's bloody well going to wear it ’ , but my mother had said her piece for the moment . |
| 8 | Mrs Hancock , the girl from the other side of the tracks , had always professed her love for the rough , tough ex-miner who made a fortune and espoused the most outlandish ideas . |
| 9 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 10 | Anyway we 've only got her word for the whole story . |
| 11 | She just hoped he had n't recognised her start for the violent sexual reaction it had been — a totally ridiculous reaction , she told herself , since she was n't in the least attracted to Fenton Marshall . |
| 12 | His wife , Sonia Gandhi , was an Italian-born Christian who had made known her distaste for the political life imposed on her husband ; their son Rahul , 21 , and daughter Priyanka , 19 , were too young even to enter the Lok Sabha . |
| 13 | She explained how she had continued her search for the murder weapon that afternoon . |
| 14 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
| 15 | ’ Occasionally I look at my daughter , ’ Irina would say , ’ and wonder where she 's put her intelligence for the time being . |
| 16 | A NURSE who died of cancer has bequeathed her pony for the use of the terminally ill children she devoted her life to . |
| 17 | A NURSE who died of cancer has bequeathed her pony for the use of the terminally ill children she devoted her life to . |
| 18 | There was no initial prospect of romance between her and Ian , but it was suggested her admiration for the man would sometimes lead to under-currents of antagonism between her and Susan . |
| 19 | The two girls stayed up for hours , and by the end of the evening a date had been arranged for the Paris adventure , and Clarissa had confided her plan for the Saturday afternoon of the visit . |
| 20 | The princess , above , is said to have changed her mind for the sake of her father , Prince Rainier . |