Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] her for " in BNC.
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1 | That this particular dybbuk has fallen in love — not with Lil , the magnificent , many-talented , shape-shifting demon queen who has lusted after her for millenia — but with one ordinary , down-to-earth , mortal dyke . |
2 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
3 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
4 | Of course , it was a shame about that incident when she assaulted the headmaster , but he should n't really have laughed at her for being the only child there who does n't take drugs . |
5 | He should have remained with her for the hunting , devil take it , instead of going to his friend Woolacombe ! |
6 | ‘ It is upsetting for the cast having worked with her for so long . |
7 | I had relied on her for support of every kind , long after I was grown-up . |
8 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
9 | Nobody had looked after her for years , he had been quite right about that . |
10 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
11 | ACTRESS Jean Marsh is not flattered by a description of the rose she had named after her for her role as the maid , Rose , in Upstairs Downstairs . |
12 | I 've done without her for two months now . ’ |
13 | On coming upstairs , he had turned to her for comfort , desperate to make love , needing to feel the growing swell of her body that was his own flesh and blood and , as always , he was moved to tears by it . |
14 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |
15 | Edward had watched over her for hours , even refusing to go down to the lock with his friends for days , though he loved to play there . |
16 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
17 | When Tallis rode up this narrow track she sent stones tumbling to the glittering water below her , and at a certain height she stopped to listen to the sound , recognizing it from a time in childhood , from a time when she had summoned images of another world , and Harry had called to her for help . |
18 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
19 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
20 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |
21 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
22 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |