Example sentences of "for her " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ No , ’ he would reply shortly , thinking she was implying he was mad — insane — with desire for her ( which , in a way , he was ) . |
| 32 | Being Irish for her was synonymous with being . |
| 33 | She must have saved herself about thirty pounds a week having you there , because she used to pay her neighbour to look after the two children for her while she was out at work . ’ |
| 34 | She kept waiting for him to do something , but he hesitated , as if he were waiting for her . |
| 35 | She felt tired and cold from all her walking , her shoes badly worn , and without thinking she asked the landlady if he had left a note for her . |
| 36 | There have been people writing in asking for her fans to stop making excuses for her . |
| 37 | We do n't make excuses for her , she 's too tough for that , anyway if Seles watched Steffi a bit more she might just be able to learn how to lob a ball and hold a racket properly . |
| 38 | That is not to say , of course , that it wo n't take longer for her to fulfil her potential . |
| 39 | One had the feeling that she was happy enough just to let her racket do her talking for her … |
| 40 | Not for her the summit this day ; she 'd left the others to it . |
| 41 | The record company prepared her an exhaustive schedule which made it impossible for her to give Fletch the attention he deserved so , reluctantly , she gave him to friends . |
| 42 | Her application was not processed in time for her to fly home on British Airways with the rest of the family so the flight was cancelled . |
| 43 | Marjorie left Lizzie 's body at the vet 's and arranged for her to be cremated . |
| 44 | He has promised that in extremity he will send for her , and she will come and be his nurse . |
| 45 | Exactly right — for her . |
| 46 | However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers . |
| 47 | The epigraph is Veteris vestigia flammae from Aeneid 4 , 23 , where Dido confesses to her confidante that the love she once felt for her now dead husband is about to renew itself for Aeneas . |
| 48 | Dorothy , one suspects , was always too much ‘ the perfect lady ’ , and schooled too thoroughly in the pre-1914 code of proud reticence ( a code which incidentally her husband also adhered to ) , for her to escape the role of ‘ poor Dorothy ’ that some recent writers have cast her in . |
| 49 | It takes time and effort for her to do this : constantly tapping her nose on the typewriter is exhausting , but then so is making her noises understood . |
| 50 | Every new nurse needs detailed instructions about how to care for her — down to details such as pulling her bra on properly and making sure she is dry before getting her dressed . |
| 51 | The relationship ended after five years : her lover grew too tired to cope with caring for her . |
| 52 | The more Renee Henry learnt about the therapy , the more she became convinced that it was right for her . |
| 53 | How could he have failed to find some extra business for her ? |
| 54 | Toby Marten , Dead Certain 's owner , paid only 5,800 guineas for her and even after stumping up £10,000 to supplement her for yesterday 's race , he is still well over six figures in the plus in prize money , not to mention Dead Certain 's enormous intrinsic value . |
| 55 | While we have to accept that some people have had a good go at blowing up the present inhabitant , would it not be simpler for her to emulate a previous incumbent and move up the road to Admiralty House ? |
| 56 | A 26-year-old woman accountant who knew nothing about the mechanical side of vehicles asked her more knowledgeable friend to find a car for her . |
| 57 | When Warner Bros , the company with which she had signed an exclusive long-term contract , squandered her potential during the Thirties in a series of amusing but , for her , unfulfilling potboilers ( eg Fashions of 1934 , The Big Shakedown , Jimmy the Gent , Fog over Frisco ) , she took the unprecedented step of departing for England , where she could continue working outside of American jurisdiction . |
| 58 | In the late Forties , just as her career was sinking to its lowest ebb , and an English critic commented of her notorious egomania that ‘ only bad films are good enough for her ’ , she returned in triumph with one of her most brilliant performances , as the ageing but feisty actress Margo Channing who , to her emotional and professional cost , learns All About Eve ( directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz , 1950 ) . |
| 59 | When the Princess Royal visited the region on behalf of the Save the Children Fund last year , the local people danced for her . |
| 60 | ‘ I felt high for about four days , not thinking about anything but caring for her . ’ |