Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might be able to make a decent cup of coffee but I hope for her sake that he is good at washing up afterwards too . |
| 2 | And when I worked for her boss he only paid me a fiver ! |
| 3 | I waited for her letters , and wondered what new things she was learning . |
| 4 | I hoped for her sake he had been naturally left-handed . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes ’ — she nodded to herself — ‘ that was the word , neurotic , which accounted for her nerves and her funny temper too . ’ |
| 6 | We feel Betty Willis may well be a record-breaker with the super-size socks she made for her super-size son-in-law whose super-loud voice gave him fifth place ( out of 100 contestants ) in the 1991 world championships for Town Criers . |
| 7 | Esther Clark moved to Tetbury , where she cared for her step-daughter and took an active interest in local charities . |
| 8 | All she got for her pains was a slight smile but no verbal reply as with efficient ease he filled and switched on a percolator . |
| 9 | Daughter who cared for her father |
| 10 | She may experience a crisis of disbelief in her religious faith , or direct her anger towards the medical or nursing staff who cared for her husband , for failing to save his life ; or she may blame family or friends and have feelings of guilt and anger against herself for things that were done or not done during his lifetime . |
| 11 | Then I paid the woman the five shillings she asked for her hospitality and went on my way . |
| 12 | She asked for her boys to be taken into care because she was terrified that she would do it again . |
| 13 | She asked for her name not to be used because she wanted to protect her relationship with regular callers . |
| 14 | She said he had agreed to do so but had driven off when she shouted for her father . |
| 15 | ‘ I know , but she phoned for her results — she was surprised to get me , she seemed to have hoped you 'd be waiting by the phone — and when I told them you 'd gone , her mother took the phone and was in quite a tizz and had a word with Mr Fry and then said they 'd get the next plane home . |
| 16 | Who wants to body bash ? ’ she shouts with her body language , as she looks for her type of guy in the park — a hunky Dobermann or a Rottweiler usually twice her size ! |
| 17 | er Nothing or nobody in England make anything anywhere near to what she needs for her disability . |
| 18 | Kerry Sadler , 14 , of Birtley , near Gateshead , who cares for her mum Ann , who has multiple sclerosis , has won £500 in the final of an ITN contest to find the country 's top carers . |
| 19 | The only brush she possessed was the one she used for her make-up , and the only pencil the one she had found lying about on the sideboard . |
| 20 | So I put Lianne 's name down and what she used for her age . |
| 21 | If in a particular language a woman referred to a large number of men other than her husband by the same term as the one she used for her husband , this implied , for Morgan and Engels , that in an earlier stage of this system , a woman would have been wife to all of these men . |
| 22 | She apologises for her simplicity , giving a busy woman 's reason : ‘ T is true I write in shortened measure , Because I scrawl but at my leisure ; For why ? — sublimity of style Takes up a most prodigious while … |
| 23 | Miss Hinkle has a special voice she uses for her jokes . |
| 24 | She brought her haul of county match appearances up to 99 , while the number of times she played for her club — she was playing for Ganton up until a few months before her death — must have constituted a record . |
| 25 | However , she came for her appointment alone . |
| 26 | The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ? |
| 27 | After the banning of The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall was denied the recognition she deserved for her mastery of the narrative technique of interior monologue and as a writer who dealt with a great variety of themes , such as World War I , materialism , Catholicism , and the suppression of women by patriarchal society . |
| 28 | She paid for her purchases , tucking the detergent under the other things . |
| 29 | This was such a beautiful city , Merrill thought a couple of hours later as she paid for her coffee and left the pavement café . |
| 30 | As she prepares for her gold medal exam for speech and drama next month through the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , she confesses she has cast aside ambitions she had as a ten- year-old to be an actress . |