Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MOTHER is living in a nightmare from which her only possible escape is that her tiny daughter may win her fight for life . |
| 2 | He knew he must treat her affection for him seriously . |
| 3 | ( II.iv.42 ) — but proceeds to proposition her with a debased contract , that she should exchange her chastity for her brother 's life . |
| 4 | It is also argued that it is inconsistent with human dignity that a woman should use her uterus for financial profit and treat it as an incubator for someone else 's child . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She should lose her scholarship for that . ’ |
| 6 | She should save her pity for herself . |
| 7 | I 'll make her pay for that later . |
| 8 | In a very short space of time , she had demolished two more such beef sandwiches supplied by Mr Beckenham , with the addition of a large slice of pie , the whole washed down with gulps of water in between , only so that she might clear her mouth for more food . |
| 9 | The mother of a six-year-old boy who suffered brain damage when he fell from scaffolding says she 'll continue her fight for compensation — despite a court clearing the contractor of blame . |
| 10 | She had broken the law unwittingly , but still she had broken it , and if Jake was really determined he could make her pay for it . |
| 11 | Might there be a chance that if he went back to England , he could make her care for him ? |
| 12 | Although Bernice could understand her wish for peace and quiet , Ell must be joking saying that she would prefer to be back home . |
| 13 | Mrs Fort , of Dagenham , Essex , died last year , five days after being punched and kicked by a boy who knocked on her door asking if he could search her garden for a lost football . |
| 14 | Fred could see her hatred for the man showing plainly on her face , and he thought of Nellie 's closing words which kept running around inside his head . |
| 15 | I could follow her drift for seconds at a time , until the half-gratified sense of effort — or my awareness of watching myself — intervened , and scattered my thoughts . |
| 16 | She could contain her dislike for this character for a few days , could n't she ? |
| 17 | To dance with him again was a prize she 'd sell her soul for , and tonight , here at the party , would be her only chance ever . |
| 18 | She wished she could fulfil her search for this singular man from her bed , by the power of her mind alone . |
| 19 | Do you think you could change her nappy for me ? |
| 20 | However , in the context of the fragile family economy of the very poor in the years before World War I , it should be remembered that if a wife earned only 1/6d a week it meant that she could feed her family for two days . |
| 21 | He had n't been thinking anything of the sort and last night he had only suggested he could settle her business for her with a phone call to the manager , whom he knew well , because he wanted to take her out today instead of waiting outside hotels for her . |
| 22 | Mrs Hamilton was n't confident that the agency nurses she interviewed would respect her desire for confidentiality on the subject . |
| 23 | and yet you see these days they would give her treatment for that |
| 24 | John-William Dallam would give her credit for no more sense than that . |
| 25 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 26 | Tonight , she would begin her search for Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 27 | If a slab of stone fell on her head now and flattened her , it would serve her right for prying , she thought wryly , as the door opened slowly and reluctantly with a grudging squeal of rusty hinges . |
| 28 | For the next four years her relatives reportedly tried to find a country that would receive her body for burial , but were turned away until they reached Peru . |
| 29 | Georgina kept quiet about her because she had the wit to see that knowledge of the affair would strengthen her motive for killing her husband , at least in the eyes of the jury . |
| 30 | She may put her reputation for unreliability on the line at Ayr on Friday . |