Example sentences of "for [v-ing] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the Queen , with a total annual income from the state of £475,000 , came out at better than American rates — $1,330,000 — but two-thirds of that sum was specifically for maintaining her enormous household . |
| 2 | When added to the tapering off of Soviet oil production , the ‘ opportunity cost ’ to the USSR of energy exports to CMEA as opposed to the West has altered appreciably — all the more so once these exports became vital for financing her own grain and equipment imports from the West . |
| 3 | SWINDLING Baroness Cecilia de Stempel slipped out of jail early yesterday after serving less than 2 1/2 years of her seven-year sentence for cheating her aged aunt out of her fortune . |
| 4 | A GIRL was yesterday jailed for five years for stabbing her teenage love rival to death . |
| 5 | So did women — but more , they admired her : for being pregnant with Tyson while her first record climbed the charts ; for cradling her two-month infant through ‘ Manchild ’ ; then for celebrating all of that on ‘ Inner City Mamma ’ , a song dedicated to the strength of working mothers . |
| 6 | In an alcove , which could be shut off from the main room , near a window , was a small writing table which the Empress used for writing her personal letters . |
| 7 | Alan had his own reasons for liking her desperate honesty ; reasons that went beyond his contempt for the other girlfriends of his youth . |
| 8 | In fact , she reminded herself , since they had been children Mandy had always had a knack for getting her sombre cousin , normally something of a goody-two-shoes , into a great deal of trouble . |
| 9 | DUTCH transport minister Johanna Maij-Weggen apologised to colleagues yesterday for breaking her own speed limit . |
| 10 | Luckily my mother was out of the room at the time , or Dawn and I might have been sent to our room for giving her precious cat a heart attack . |
| 11 | In 1955 an 11-year-old Sunbeam was presented with the Silver Cross for rescuing her three sisters from their burning house . |
| 12 | If that was the impression she was giving , then the fault lay entirely with him for disturbing her usual equilibrium with his unexpected behaviour . |
| 13 | She opened her eyes and cursed him for disturbing her silent thoughts . |
| 14 | Queen Elizabeth I , her penchant for black servants and entertainers notwithstanding , took the opportunity to ‘ scapegoat ’ the black communities , and attempted to expel them without compunction when there appeared to be political advantage in doing so for managing her economic difficulties . |
| 15 | She wo n't thank you for blackening her late husband 's name . ’ |
| 16 | But in a television interview at the end of 1989 Kylie confessed that the pressures of international stardom meant that now she had precious little time to spare for making her own clothes . |
| 17 | Holden Caulfield and Lucy Snowe have both been rejected by their societies ; Holden for refusing to conform to standards which he considers ‘ phoney ’ , and Lucy for voicing her Protestant beliefs in a strong Catholic community . |
| 18 | began to help , thinking that she might either find some opportune moment for introducing her own problems , or that she might be treated with news of her mother 's latest triumph . |
| 19 | A WOMAN jailed for life for murdering her violent husband was granted a retrial yesterday . |
| 20 | She was eventually given two life sentences for murdering her seven-year-old daughter and her four-year-old playmate . |
| 21 | The Appeal Court has freed Heidi Colwell , the mother who jailed for leaving her young child alone at home while she went out to work . |
| 22 | Battered wives like Sara Thornton — serving life for killing her violent husband — were always in her thoughts . |