Example sentences of "her for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 2 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |
| 3 | The first time Jan Doak wore the dolphin suit in meeting common dolphins , one individual bonded with her for over four hours , a rare response from this shy species . |
| 4 | After trailing her for over two hours Poppy flopped down , but when I approached her she just got up and dived off through a hole in the fence . |
| 5 | It was simply that he could judge such things after living so closely with her for however many years . |
| 6 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’ |
| 7 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's why I used her for so many of the taped examples for my lectures , Folly . |
| 9 | Well I , I , I , I 've see Mrs I 've had her for so many , many years |
| 10 | ‘ I stood by her for almost half an hour , before you came . |
| 11 | I had the advantage of her for that much unobtrusive study . |
| 12 | ‘ You were with her for around five hours , were n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | It was brought to her before I really got to know her , but it was with her for quite some time . |
| 14 | I 'd not seen her for quite some time , you know . |
| 15 | Keep putting up , we 've had her for about two years have n't we ? |
| 16 | I ai n't seen her for about two months . |
| 17 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 18 | She put her arms around his neck , and Edouard managed to resist her for about thirty seconds . |
| 19 | I were talking to her for about half an hour . |
| 20 | I see her for about ten minutes a week . |
| 21 | We have n't seen her for about ten , twelve years and er |
| 22 | Margaret she 's coming to this do we 're going to , I have n't seen her for about forty years . |
| 23 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |