Example sentences of "for her [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young mother says she 's living in fear for her life after a threatening phone call from the man who kidnapped her at gunpoint . |
| 2 | Far more clear in my mind were recurrent pictures of Victor trembling as if with fever ; Elizabeth , fair and beautiful and composed ; Justine , pleading without effect for her life before a room full of people covertly eager for her blood ; and the creature Frankenstein had made — that gigantic figure without a face , striking fear and worse than fear wherever it went . |
| 3 | Monika Helbing , a former member of the Red Army Faction , received a seven-year prison sentence on Feb. 24 for her complicity in the kidnap and murder in 1977 of Hans-Martin Schleyer , the West German industrialist [ see p. 28918 ; 28920 ] , and for her part in a bank robbery in Nürnberg in 1979 . |
| 4 | She commuted by air between England , France and Monte Carlo , took a Hollywood screen test , only to turn her back on America for her love of a famous impresario . |
| 5 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 6 | She stood up with total aplomb , and carried off first prize for her rendering of a " Purple Pussycat " . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I thanked her for her honesty with a box of chocolates . ’ |
| 8 | Somebody was out of town for two days , he explained , somebody who would block any proposal for her release as a matter of course . |
| 9 | I do n't want to be talking to you , thought Penelope desperately , trying to appear interested in what Robina Fairfax was saying about a place in West London where she had bought a piece of statuary for her garden at a very reasonable price . |
| 10 | Though her motivation is irrelevant in the sense that it matters not why she took the decision she did , I find that the reason for her refusal of a blood transfusion arises because it is contrary to the beliefs of the Jehovah 's Witnesses . |
| 11 | Richard came forward then to formally ask for her hand in a pavan but , observing that his brother was conversing with his elected bride and catching the latter 's meaningful glance , he cheerfully turned away and asked his sister Cecily instead . |
| 12 | Even today , the bookshops of Hamra Street and Sassine Square contain shelves of expensive photographic records of the fighting , coffee table books with colour plates in which readers can study at their leisure and in detail the last moments of a young Muslim militiaman before the firing squad , the anguished eyes of a Palestinian mother pleading for her family before a hooded gunman , a Christian family lying massacred inside their home . |
| 13 | It seemed to be part of this dreadful time , with the responsibility for her mother like a crushing weight on her . |
| 14 | The theme Eva took for her testimony at a united service in Brisbane the Good Friday after her conversion summed up her new found faith . |
| 15 | Ordinarily she would have relished the variety which the creators of Moloch had offered up for her pleasure without a qualm or a second thought , but this time something was getting to her , making her nervous . |
| 16 | The little Hindu girl is brought up carefully to prepare for her role as a wife and mother in an alien family . |
| 17 | There was Irene Munro , who had improved her complexion with Icilma cream before being battered to death for her handbag on a beach . |
| 18 | Fortunately , Miss Zeta Jones wore ordinary clothes for her visit to a victim of Motor Neurone disease . |