Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she asked her Mum to find something for me . |
| 2 | her Mum bought it for her er pure wool |
| 3 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 4 | She decided she would say it , noticed how her body rearranged itself for the tone that would come . |
| 5 | She looked up , clutching her inadequate plush tablecloths , the supple line of her body begging him for a ride . |
| 6 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 7 | Her husband left her for a job in the Arabian Gulf one year ago , and apart from regular maintenance , neither she nor the children have heard from him since . |
| 8 | But she was quite ready to assign her nuclear units to a NATO Multinational Force ; indeed , she was , in effect , already doing so through the joint targeting of her V-bombers with the US Strategic Air Command , subject to her right to use them for her own purposes if vital national interests were at stake . |
| 9 | Amidst the noise of children shouting , women calling across the alley , and dogs barking , Sarah seemed to hear her father condemning her for the way she had behaved these last months , and her misery grew . |
| 10 | She was abandoned by her mother when she was a year old , and her father gave her for adoption . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 12 | She was philosophical about her stepson blaming her for allowing his father 's foot to become so black , saying that Alex had to look after himself . |
| 13 | He refused her invitation to join her for ‘ a cup of coffee , or something stronger . ’ |
| 14 | Anybody would think she was a promiscuous little tart , the way her family reproached her for her single status … |
| 15 | Her family disowned her for marrying a Gentile . |
| 16 | Starved of emotional nourishment from that quarter , the daughter is brittle and neurotic and , when her boyfriend leaves her for another woman , she takes umbrage , haunts the new love-nest night and day , lets down tyres , makes abusive phone calls and eventually throws a stone through a window and gets herself arrested . |
| 17 | Her mother blamed her for what had happened , and the threatened break-up of the family . |
| 18 | During the day , Erika wondered what her mother wanted her for , but after two hours in the gym she had given up wondering , and , indeed , had forgotten about it . |
| 19 | Nan was in the running for that kind of life , and Emily would do everything in her power to get it for her . |