Example sentences of "[vb infin] her [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The new owner of the Enderley estate is a hard man , or he 'd never have the heart to turn her out , even if he does want her cottage for a gamekeeper . |
| 2 | Mrs Coleridge may have felt that the Blue Coat School would best prepare her son for the clerical career John Coleridge had wished him to follow . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , of course , this will affect her availability for the show . ’ |
| 4 | John-William Dallam would give her credit for no more sense than that . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It appeared Mary would give her eye-teeth for a cup of tea with two sugars . |
| 7 | Sister was off duty , but the staff nurse , a big , auburn-haired girl with freckles , agreed to let Juliet see her mother for a few minutes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thomas Carlyle had suggested to Elizabeth Gaskell that she should ‘ use her pen for the public good ’ and this both husband and wife tried to do in their way . |
| 11 | Sally-Anne Tunstall , beloved daughter of Senator Jared Tunstall , arguably the richest man in the USA , and his dear wife Mary , niece of Orrin Tunstall , the American ambassador , society beauty , heiress , spoiled child of fortune , who had once thought that the world was her ball to play with , sat on her bed in an East End attic , dressed in her skivvy 's clothing , grieving because she could not consummate her love for a poor doctor who had renounced the world over which she had once reigned . |
| 12 | This time the chasm yawned in front of her , and she knew that she might close her eyes for the moment , but she was already taking little steps towards the edge . |