Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked Mrs Zamzam what her sons did for a living , a young man interrupted to say that they all worked ‘ for the revolution ’ . |
| 2 | She 's typed up and then said she 's hyped up because her sister works for the R S P C A , and she 's |
| 3 | She left her sister to rest for a while , and she herself set off at once with her possessions in a basket . |
| 4 | Tallis felt a surging flow of sap ; her bark ached for this young man . |
| 5 | Few of her governesses stayed for long and , with the exception of two terms at a French convent near Tours , she had little formal education . |
| 6 | She feels the worst part of being unemployed is her inability to plan for the future . |
| 7 | Japan was not unique in the problems faced by her rural population , but her attempts to search for an external outlet for domestic discontent were unusually vigorous . |
| 8 | But they are not random errors : they grow out of her particular approach to spelling , and suggest that she may have trouble in the future because of a weak visual memory and her attempts to compensate for this are reckless and haphazard . |
| 9 | She had been in her cottage waiting for the return of Tom and Carrie when a villager ran past shouting news of the fire and she had turned out to help . |
| 10 | The facts are : Lady Eleanor kept to herself , put on her cloak to go for a walk and , in the half-light , slipped on the staircase at Godstowe , fell and broke her neck . ’ |
| 11 | As Rune 's hard , caressing hands slid up and down her body , Gina automatically raised her arms around his neck , her fingers reaching for his hair , winding through its golden thickness , oblivious to everything save the heavy clamouring of her heart , the new-found responses of her senses to Rune 's compelling masculine power . |
| 12 | She had never thought that her hair stood for anything other than passion and desire to Benedict . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's I who have been a fool — for five intolerable , hideously long years , ’ he added softly , gently wiping the tears from her eyes before covering her upturned face with butterfly-light kisses that made her heart sing for joy . |
| 14 | Suddenly her heart ached for the sight of her native country , for the sounds and scents and the voices of her own people . |
| 15 | He smiled and Robyn watched and felt her heart stop for the hundredth time . |
| 16 | They sat there side by side , Faye and Roberta , staring at Alice , so unlike Mary and Reggie that Alice was even amused — inside , of course , not letting it show And her heart hurt for the girls . |
| 17 | Knowing exactly what was coming next , and her heart aching for poor Phena , Ellie said softly , ‘ And she could n't find any record of a David Anthony Kent having been born , having even existed — and so knew that her mother had lied . ’ |
| 18 | Fabia at once volunteered , her heart aching for her sister . |
| 19 | So Fernando had been playing by himself — her heart bled for him ! |
| 20 | Listening to her debut recording for Decca , it is difficult to disagree . |
| 21 | she 's had all her plans done for her |
| 22 | She used passionate verbs such as ‘ adore ’ and ‘ detest ’ , as if she wished to proclaim her readiness to fight for every one of those five strokes , for every one of those five points . |
| 23 | She allowed her mind to dwell for a minute on her old schoolfellow in the role of husband . |
| 24 | As she grows up she is able to bring up her child and form other relationships , but the split has occurred and the damaged child within her mind waits for the chance of retribution . |
| 25 | Her mind searched for a safer topic . |
| 26 | When it dawned on her that she would have to earn her own living , she made up her mind to work for a diploma and then teach , and do some book-illustrating while she cast about for her real métier . |
| 27 | Mrs Mitchell wants to know if she can increase or decrease the width of the pattern , in order to get complete repeats of the pattern on a sweater that is a different size to the one she used her 23-stitch repeat for . |
| 28 | Opening her purse to look for change , she crossed the road to the phone box . |
| 29 | As her subjects prepared for action , she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed , notably the intense cold . |
| 30 | As her subjects prepared for action , she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed , notably the intense cold . |