Example sentences of "and [verb] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle of this pother of boots , brothers , and boisterous behaviour , Leonora Hussey came in from the hall , greeting her daughter and chiding her husband for being so late back . |
| 2 | Husband Charles , 43 , was upset when Di picked a foreign car and made her pay for it herself . |
| 3 | She developed in the chief inspector the emotional equivalent of a skin rash , and made her wish for nothing better than to discover Christine was the ‘ friend ’ her father had met on Hampstead Heath . |
| 4 | She saw her tutor 's enquiring look and dismissed her benefactor for the moment . |
| 5 | On his way to the restaurant he passed a man and a woman arm in arm , a man walking purposefully , as if late for an appointment , a woman standing next to her car and searching her bag for the key . |
| 6 | The girl envies the penis of boys , and blames her mother for not giving her one . |
| 7 | Rory secured her hair with a heavily jewelled clasp and studied her reflection for a moment before giving a little nod . |
| 8 | She used to get someone else to go and do her shopping for her . |
| 9 | Dana could put on a good show ; no one would know she had broken down and confessed her need for Roman 's strength . |
| 10 | Slipping off his dressing-gown , she slid between the sheets and lifted her face for his kiss with the guileless trust of a child . |
| 11 | In 1876 she went to Girton College where she gained third-class honours in the mathematical tripos in 1880 , and showed her flair for experimentation and designing scientific instruments . |
| 12 | This will introduce the student to the speciality of the ward , and give her time for preparation . |
| 13 | He undid her nightgown and admired her body for the first time . |
| 14 | Nicci Gerrard in the Observer reckoned Conran had cribbed the plot from King Lear and indicated her preference for the original , which was hardly biting , but Ruth Dudley Edwards in The Independent ( ’ bilge ’ ) and Moira Shearer in this paper ( ’ high-flown twaddle ’ ) did n't mess about and Julie Burchill in The Spectator ( ’ truly appalling book … ) was predictably excoriating . |
| 15 | ‘ Siddy 's ’ fiancée , Beth , would cut and set her hair for her in the late ‘ twenties , but by the time the couple married in June , 1930 , Granny was very near the end . |
| 16 | As she feared , her mother took Miss Hatherby 's decision as a social slap in the face and blamed her daughter for wasting an opportunity . |
| 17 | Emily paced around the book-lined study and blamed her father for his hostile attitude to Craig . |
| 18 | And the marriage is likely to be far happier than if she is working flat out while she is at home and blaming her husband for giving her no help . |
| 19 | I had one job to do first thing in the morning — to ring Sir Geoffrey Gillington and ask him to arrange for the manager of the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank to receive Miss Macdonald when she called , and to keep her letter for me . |
| 20 | Her research on Artemesia continued and having her idea for this play excepted by Soho Poly 's Blueprint young writers programme gave her the chance to take the play into its performance phase by Workstage |
| 21 | On one occasion , it began to go up when she wanted to go down ; another time , it refused to open and kept her prisoner for half an hour . |
| 22 | She did not like to stop and rest her arm for too long . |
| 23 | ‘ I was not … ’ she began irritably , only to find herself talking to thin air as he ducked down and removed her shoe for her . |
| 24 | ‘ She used to make them run round getting things for her not my father ; he used to make her get things for him but a lot of them would run up and get her cardigan for her . ’ |
| 25 | Caro turned on the hairdryer and saved her answer for a couple of minutes , which gave her time to make it tactful . |
| 26 | She would stand in the door of her enormous closet in a thick velour robe and choose her outfit for the afternoon . |
| 27 | She may even find , if a relationship has been a particularly draining one , that this brings sweet relief and restores her zest for life . |
| 28 | Late at night she kept up her journal and wrote her column for J.D. , and on her last visit he had offered her a post on his editorial staff , a full-time one , when she had finished her East End stint , as he called it . |
| 29 | In retirement Anderson travelled extensively and continued her work for women and children in an international context . |
| 30 | And left her Toilet for the Chimney Side : |