Example sentences of "for [verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British tourist Stephen Profitt , who paid £200 for Lucky in Malta , was fined £100 yesterday for bringing her into the country without a licence . |
| 2 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 3 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 4 | She answered the telephone , thanked the Martellis for thanking her for the party . |
| 5 | What possible reason could a sane man have for thanking her for an evening that had never happened ? |
| 6 | By the end of this scene , however , Terentia expresses fulsome gratitude to Dycarbas for saving her from an uncle who had wanted to steal her inheritance . |
| 7 | She had accepted that he had had grounds for dismissing her at the time , considering the state of that little radio station 's finances . |
| 8 | To hurt Thérèse back for robbing her of the lady in the woods . |
| 9 | ‘ If anyone 's to blame , it 's me , for pushing her over the edge . |
| 10 | She hated the school for forcing her through the mockery of inquiry . |
| 11 | In 1952 she wed film director Roger Vadim , the man responsible for turning her into a screen star , but that soon turned sour . |
| 12 | ’ All the more reason for providing her with a diversion . ’ |
| 13 | Well , it would serve them right for treating her like a baby . |
| 14 | He blamed himself for crediting her with a maturity she did not possess , and regretted that his attempts to assist her studies had been so tragically misinterpreted by her . |
| 15 | The poems may almost be considered as examples of literary collaboration , and , though her own attempts at verse were not successful , the originality and freshness of perception in the Journals and her letters make a clear case for assessing her as a ‘ poet ’ in her own right . |
| 16 | So we might say my friend Ellen Blair , or the former chairman Ellen Blair , or a nurse in the ward called Ellen Blair , giving , in some sense , ‘ credentials ’ for her existence and for her relationship to the speaker who is responsible for introducing her into the conversation . |