Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | An order had been placed with her for ‘ Charlie ’ — a code word for cocaine — in a call made through the main Palace switchboard . |
| 2 | She lost pearls that had been given to her for her 21st birthday . |
| 3 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 4 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 5 | Yeah well he 's been looking after her for , for years ai n't he ? |
| 6 | Those fantasies that had protected her from real life , that beautiful , unpolluted world of the Lock with its seals and its childhood memories of her father and that other glossy , television world that she imagined people like Simon inhabited , had been ruined for her for ever . |
| 7 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 8 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 9 | Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't |
| 10 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 11 | But she did believe that her revelations had not been bestowed upon her for herself but for everybody . |
| 12 | And it makes sense : Ivor 's been married to her for years — he 'd need a good , strong reason to go . ’ |