Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 2 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 3 | She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers . |
| 4 | The headmistress , who had always ridiculed her for being bad at games , now referred to her as ‘ our best pupil ’ and gave her a set of Shakespeare , duly inscribed . |
| 5 | The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced . |
| 6 | While Mrs Drubb , with no more explanation than that she was a woman now and had better keep well away from men , had then scolded her for upsetting her mother . |
| 7 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |
| 8 | He had never forgiven her for intruding in what he had seen as his family , his responsibility , the only inheritance his father had left him . |
| 9 | He had never forgiven her for reporting his indiscretion in front of her husband . |
| 10 | It is clear , moreover , from facts which later became public , that her father King Malcolm had never intended her for a monastic vocation . |
| 11 | He had never asked her for her heart . |