Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [noun sg] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small shock of surprise disturbed her judgement for a moment , and the awareness of feeling and looking disconcerted inclined her to resent him , and to look for and find impudence in an approach which would have seemed perfectly excusable in a resident scholar . |
| 2 | Timothy was agonising over her , when Honor West would have sold her soul for a single kiss from him . |
| 3 | Her mother ran upstairs , followed closely by a policewoman who had n't left her side for a moment since they 'd arrived . |
| 4 | If she 'd been stopped in a car with this level of alcohol in her , she would have lost her licence for a year at least and got a hefty fine . |
| 5 | So it can only be human failure I E that she was driving and just sort of lost her concentration for a few seconds and that was fatal |
| 6 | Instead , a sleepy purring trill told her that the dozing house cat — it was the long-haired one , named after Bubastis , and almost a pet — had mistaken her clumsiness for a caress ; she had barely disturbed its sleep . |
| 7 | But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter . |