Example sentences of "have [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 2 | He has seen her for all of 30 seconds . |
| 3 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 4 | And it was then she finally asked me a question that has bothered her for twenty years . |
| 5 | HELENA Bonham-Carter , the actress , was yesterday granted a High Court injunction in London against a fan who has pestered her for several years . |
| 6 | Miss Bonham-Carter , whose great-grandfather was the Liberal premier , Lord Asquith , has claimed that Mr Farquharson , 27 , has pestered her for several years . |
| 7 | Ms Nelson has praised her for being brave enough to take the case . |
| 8 | ‘ This business has knocked her for six . ’ |
| 9 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 10 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 11 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 12 | Prim and proper had always been her way , and he 'd appreciated her for it . |
| 13 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 14 | Eventually , Reid said , ‘ All Susan ever said about her father was that he was a grade-A shit who 'd ignored her for most of her life and thought money was a good substitute for love . |
| 15 | She thought perhaps he 'd mistaken her for someone else . |
| 16 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 17 | ‘ Had Diana been within 10 miles of Windsor Castle on the day of the fire , they would have blamed her for starting it , ’ admitted a senior royal source last night . |
| 18 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 19 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 20 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 21 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 22 | Jane believes that her mother was often stressed to the point of despair at this time , ‘ … that she suffered all the torments and tribulations of every working mother without anything in her background , education or make-up having prepared her for such an emotional wrenching . ’ |
| 23 | But he declared that he would be unable to recognize Roksanda , after having seen her for such a short time , and that only by the light of his master 's ring . |
| 24 | I went to my G P , having avoided her for fifteen years , having getting the old story every time you went well you must go on a diet ! |
| 25 | Oh , what a fool Fernando must have thought her for finding anything suspicious in a locked door . |
| 26 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 27 | No event , however unpleasant , could have marked her for ever . |
| 28 | Having known her for less than two months , he was not yet confident of any strong hold on her affections , despite the fact that she seemed quite willing to accept his embraces and kisses . |
| 29 | She is a cold , unfeeling and unresponsive woman : she must be , or Hugo would not have left her for me . |
| 30 | I feel guilty about having engaged her for weeks in close and auto-erotic questioning . |