Example sentences of "her [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did I think it would be a wise move or should she try to persuade Meredith to keep her on for Christmas ? |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't talked to her properly for weeks . |
| 3 | Medau interested her enough for Olive to take part in our first training course and she was also a member of one of our early display teams . |
| 4 | Mr Hutton often calls her in for dictation and then she gets behind with her work for Malcolm , but he gets annoyed with me rather than her . |
| 5 | Eyeing Gwen Bear , she wondered if she ought to take her down for company , then gave an enchanting little giggle . |
| 6 | When they asked her down for meals she did n't come . |
| 7 | One woman had a friend who constantly let her down for appointments , a lunch , an evening out , by either not turning up , being very late or changing dates at the last minute . |
| 8 | Jake gazed across the dim dunes again , still gripping her in his arm : and it felt now as if he held her just for comfort — his own , perhaps , as much as hers . |
| 9 | It was that sort of attitude that would prevent Craig from coming to her directly for help . |
| 10 | He certainly liked Alix , and after the demo he took her off for lunch in a pub and then for a walk to his room in King 's , where he showed her his pots and his paintings . |
| 11 | Miss Jeanette told how Nichol had scratches on his face , neck and lip when he arrived to pick her up for work . |
| 12 | Another survivor , who was brought up in Leith , where she went to Bell 's School , owed her introduction to printing to a neighbour " a Miss Taylor " , who told her widowed mother that young Jenny would be " just suited " to the printing trade , and herself took her up for interview . |
| 13 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 14 | With this last push Penguin is building her up for HarperCollins to take over , for she is on the move . |
| 15 | they 've not , yeah , they 've not phoned her up for God knows how long . |
| 16 | The position would have qualified her automatically for entry to the ANC national executive committee . |
| 17 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 18 | He has to bring her back for school on Monday . |
| 19 | At Hunstead Park from May nineteen eighty nine until May nineteen ninety , both parents stayed for the first week and thereafter supported the plaintiff in taking her back for home visits , every weekend plus a week at Christmas and Easter . |
| 20 | He 's been nagging me to take her back for weeks . |
| 21 | He 's taking her out for meals and they 're having a good time together you know . |
| 22 | Yes , well there is another man and she 's told Paul frankly she 's lapping up the attention , he 's taking her out for meals and their having a good time together you know , why its great , but as soon as he 's paid for , for the goods and got , got the goods , the chaps going to go off looking for another . |
| 23 | He had thought he would invite her out for lunch , talk to her , try and work things out , assess things . |
| 24 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 25 | We send her out for food every day |
| 26 | I can hardly send her out for sandwiches , and from the way Victor was talking this could be our last proper meal together . |
| 27 | And it was just as well that she did so because Harry appeared at that moment , to lead her out for sherry and soda . |
| 28 | I do not think he married her particularly for love , but for the sake of his daughters , as people did in those days ; and it might have seemed that she was ideally suited for this , with her quiet , dignified manner , and she having been a housekeeper . |
| 29 | His father 's favouring of Chuck had forced him to turn to her increasingly for solace , and that some unimaginable selfishness should have driven her to commit her dreadful act of desertion baffled and disturbed him deeply for reasons he did n't begin to understand . |
| 30 | He loved the sound of her and was always on at me to have her round for tea . |