Example sentences of "she [verb] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 2 | The committee had heard she sold her kidney for £3,265 . |
| 3 | Amanda claims she got her eye for good antique furniture from her grandfather . |
| 4 | She asked her aunt for a little money , for the first time , shuffling her feet and keeping her eyes shyly down . |
| 5 | Notably , she reserves her criticism for Lombroso — not by any means , at the time she was writing , the only person to have made the connection — remarking that his method was merely one of ‘ heaping up instances which support his thesis ’ . |
| 6 | At least she has her family for support and company , and losing some of her friends and social outlets might be less damaging to her than to her single sister . |
| 7 | She has never been to the Caribbean in her life , but most of her friends are black British : to their companionship she owes her aptitude for talking Creole . |
| 8 | She cracked her face for a while . |
| 9 | She blames her mother for this and sees it as a sign of inferiority , thus experiencing penis envy and transfers her affections to her father as he has the penis she wants . |
| 10 | One example of how she uses her position for the good of the game , and for others , occurred in October when , suffering from a painful wrist injury and against her doctor 's advice , she played an exhibition , not for personal gain , but to raise money for multiple sclerosis . |
| 11 | She uses her car for company business ( about 2,000 miles a year ) and it is also available for her private use . |
| 12 | He moved towards her , and instinctively she lifted her face for his kiss . |
| 13 | She lifted her face for his kiss , groaning in soft satisfaction as his mouth claimed hers . |
| 14 | As she clambered over the steep Alpine meadows with Portia , she told her friend for the first time about Thomas and how he had helped her when she had nowhere to go . |
| 15 | The questions she had feared earlier seemed to be taking physical shape in the shadowy corners of the room , phantoms waiting to trap her if she dropped her guard for so much as a second . |
| 16 | She rested her head for a moment against his shoulder and then sat up straight , conscious that she must not ruffle her carefully coiffured hair . |
| 17 | A young child brutally killed , a mother in anguish because she turned her back for seconds : it is a reflection of the society we now live in . |
| 18 | Forcing herself to sit down , she racked her imagination for excuses that might explain his absence . |
| 19 | She reserved her temper for the horse . |
| 20 | She nodded her head for emphasis . |
| 21 | Nicandra burst into tears and , as she opened her mouth for a bellow , the stored spinach and saliva shot out , into her plate , on to the tablecloth , a horrid defilement . |
| 22 | She blamed her mother for thoughtlessly producing so many children . |
| 23 | After the Anglo-French reconciliation of 1303 , Edward wrote to Marie of France thanking her for her letters in which she expressed her desire for a meeting and conversation between him and her stepson , Philip the Fair . |
| 24 | Angela Carter studied medieval literature at the University as a mature student in the 1960s in the English Department , where she developed her taste for folk stories that underpinned such works as The Magic Toyshop , Nights at the Circus and The Company of Wolves . |
| 25 | She takes her greyhound for walks , and the animal becomes , tactfully , briefly , for half a paragraph or so , something more than just a dog . |
| 26 | She loved her great-aunt for many reasons . |
| 27 | Also , perhaps , that sometimes at night , she finds her crying for the starving of Africa or unable to sleep with the terror of the possibility of nuclear war or desperately seeking a denial of the reality of the horror of the Holocaust . |
| 28 | THE father of human torch victim Suzanne Capper spoke of his grief yesterday after she lost her fight for life . |
| 29 | She lost her breath for a moment . |
| 30 | There she took her stand for Moral Re-Armament ; and ran into hot opposition . |