Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for her [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Lucy had already decided that this would be the wisest course for her to take .
2 It would have been an unnecessary and cruel blow for her to see her old home in its state of decay .
3 But strong support for her persisted in the party outside Parliament .
4 And perhaps the light from those ears of corn which are in just the right condition for her to lay her eggs , fluoresce in a particular manner , recognizing which from her own inward pre-patterned instincts , she homes in and deposits her eggs .
5 US prosecutors and lawyers for Imelda Marcos , widow of the late Philippines president , have discussed a possible deal for her to plead guilty and make a full disclosure in a racketeering case in exchange for a suspended sentence , Manila 's chief government lawyer said yesterday .
6 That 'll be another scam for her to get money !
7 In 1914 , three years after her first public concerts , she and her mother moved to Berlin to a life of considerable hardship , until Joachim 's daughter-in-law discovered her talents and arranged some scholarships for her to allow her to study with Huberman .
8 To her immense irritation she found herself babbling , as though there was some need for her to explain herself to him .
9 Recycling of waste was essential and it was the housewives ' job another job for her to salvage from her home such things as paper , bones , tin cans , old gramophone records , photographs and negatives , jam jars , rubber and rags .
10 With this power and position , there existed a proper distance for her to keep , and on that evening she was to bridge it fatally ; worse , there was a strident note of comedy debasing further the shaming accident …
11 She recalled asking her mother — in the way that youngest children often do — whether they could ‘ buy ’ another baby for her to play with .
12 Anyway , there are numerous easier ways for her to show her independence at this stage , such as walking , feeding or emptying out her toy box .
13 EMMA Spiers , John Wood Group PLC wins a side of smoked salmon for her winning caption in the Christmas issue competition .
14 got back home and the post 's been in between time and we 've just got this letter for her to attend on February , I wonder if there 's , if you 've had a mix up ?
15 There was another reason for her to live .
16 A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home .
17 The intention had been to brand her as a ‘ hoarder ’ as well as the ‘ milk snatcher ’ , but most of us thought this seemed an eminently sensible thing for her to have done .
18 It certainly might have helped Diana to listen and learn from counselling sessions , where other couples ' problems are aired and discussed ; but there is no doubt that by taking on the role of patron at a time when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage was an exceptionally brave thing for her to do .
19 A sensible way for her to prepare for such an eventuality is to keep a small case already packed and labelled with her name and address in her wardrobe or in a corner of her bedroom where it can be got at easily ( see Chapter 13 ) .
20 Her mother had high hopes for her to take O-levels and go higher , so when she was pregnant , Elaine could not tell her because she felt she 'd let her down .
21 Helen came in towards the end , and , with no outside calls for her to go to , Joanna looked rather depressed .
22 Lily lay in mild shock afterwards , while nurses fussed about her with hot-water bottles and held a cup of strongly sweetened tea for her to sip .
23 It conjured up too many graphic images for her to reply with any semblance of iciness .
24 There was too much snow for her to tell whether this was the place she had seen before , with the stone walls of the castle rising among the thick , frozen trees .
25 One had come to London university to do a postgraduate music diploma because it was the most appropriate place for her to study .
26 But there was no way she could divulge the pivotal reason for her deciding to move here .
27 turns the beds down and that 's i But she enjoys doing it , so that 's a little bit for her to do .
28 It was an ideal opportunity for her to find out whether Andrew knew the missing don , and whether Puddephat had ever had any connection with rue Roland .
29 A musical is a natural vehicle for her to pull all her talents together , ’ he added .
30 Penry 's wonderful , gratifying desire for her had been a healing fire which had cured her forever of the wounds dealt by Guy .
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