Example sentences of "to her for the " in BNC.

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1 Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her .
2 I did n't speak to her for the rest of the day , of course , and this made her laugh , I do n't know why .
3 Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time .
4 We kissed goodnight , and I again apologised to her for the fright she had .
5 Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline .
6 Unusually , no blame is attached to her for the outcome .
7 ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’
8 Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before .
9 The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her .
10 The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval .
11 Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day .
12 It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood .
13 It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own .
14 It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time .
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