Example sentences of "had [verb] her [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 2 | I had heard her cry for them in the night . |
| 3 | A priestess of Isis , the beautiful Ayesha had broken her vows for love of a Greek soldier Kallikrates who , in his turn , was in danger because of his love for the Egyptian princess Amenartas . |
| 4 | She now remembered how she had criticized her mother for bringing babies into the world without being able to look after them . |
| 5 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 6 | Scarlet had just thrown away a bunch of dried Proveņcal flowers which had adorned her sideboard for over a year and was already feeling slightly better : she thought that if only she could rearrange all the furniture , she might be cured , but it seemed too drastic a step to take . |
| 7 | All his life he had sought her pardon for the failure which she either could not or would not spell out for him . |
| 8 | Karen had done her bit for me and I would have been more than happy to reciprocate . |
| 9 | I thought she might add , ‘ And she 's bloody well going to wear it ’ , but my mother had said her piece for the moment . |
| 10 | But it was starting to worry her that he could so openly refer to her running away from him , and since she had no intention of going into the ‘ whys ’ and ‘ wherefores ’ of that , and since she had made her apology for deceiving him — and had got off rather lightly , she had to admit — Fabia got to her feet . |
| 11 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 12 | ‘ That particular group do , ’ said Rachel , and found herself wondering if that was what David had visited her family for — to discuss the possibility of Jennifer going to Conway House . |
| 13 | In fact , if Matilda 's messenger had n't carried a letter to the Queen explaining the ‘ unfortunate misunderstanding ’ that had resulted in Isabel 's ‘ ill-considered ’ flight from Gloucester with fitzAlan 's assistance , she was quite sure William of Ypres would have clapped her into prison until he had verified her story for himself . |
| 14 | After paying for her younger sister 's lavish wedding last autumn he had begun saving for the world cruise he had promised her mother for their thirtieth wedding anniversary . |
| 15 | It was reported on Aug. 3 that the Supreme Court of New South Wales had awarded damages of A$2,850,000 ( US$2,224,500 ) to a teenage girl who had sued her mother for negligence committed whilst the girl was still a foetus . |
| 16 | Then , Bert and Jasper — but not Jack , a fact which had to give her food for thought — met a certain comrade in a certain private house in a suburb . |
| 17 | He had understood her feelings for Andrew ; he could n't comprehend her reasons for marrying Lovat . |
| 18 | She had timed her arrival for half an hour after the party was due to commence , calculating that this would find the host and hostess busy with other guests , leaving her free to mingle and , with any luck , to slip away early . |
| 19 | The one , two , three and then four hours since she had acknowledged her love for Ven alternately dawdled and then flew for Fabia . |
| 20 | It was the first time any one of them had asked her reasons for wanting to come across and see the New Year in , and she answered , ‘ Some men 's do , I suppose . ’ |
| 21 | She had asked her mother for something to eat over and over again , until finally she had decided to get it herself . |
| 22 | Jane had removed her specs for a short myopic rest , but now put them on again , quickly . |
| 23 | Firstly , although Isabelle had kindled her love for foreign languages by teaching her their own native tongue , at the same time she 'd been strangely reticent about her own life . |
| 24 | She had learned her lines for her final scenes from her sick bed . |
| 25 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
| 26 | Kelly shook her head incredulously ; Ibn Fayoud had taken her acceptance for granted . |
| 27 | Luke had taken her silence for assent . |
| 28 | She had a friend from finishing school , Maria , who came from a rich Hungarian family , and who had fled her country for Paris in 1956 , at the time of the Russian invasion . |
| 29 | Though one would think not a morsel had passed her lips for months . |
| 30 | She explained how she had continued her search for the murder weapon that afternoon . |