Example sentences of "[pers pn] for her " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 2 | I had seen him turn human with Margaret , but that glimpse had not been enough to tell me now whether he had stopped on recognizing me for her sake or because I was a Benedict 's nurse . |
| 3 | I rely on everybody else , but she has to rely on me for her food and comfort . |
| 4 | ‘ So you do blame me for her blindness , ’ he said menacingly . |
| 5 | ‘ And to blame me for her bitterness is the height of absurdity ! |
| 6 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter . |
| 9 | They had always written off their mother 's manoeuvres as tribal tactics devised to keep the two of them for her kind , with their father as some sort of lower ally in the endeavour , more deeply absorbed by his autonomy and his cigars than by the dynamics of living with his wife . |
| 10 | He fishes for oysters and leaves them for her lunch . |
| 11 | But she does do them for her family and friends . |
| 12 | Yes , she made them for her teacher 's as well , they 'll chocolates . |
| 13 | Rory told Jessica about his girlfriend Rosie , not a great deal but nothing too disloyal , while she for her part realised after some moments that she was not listening with more than half an ear , but wondering what she should tell him about Parr . |
| 14 | Well let's see you see at the end of the day will probably suit you better er cos she 's quite mature is n't she for her age ? |
| 15 | I am therefore today asking you for her hand , for no one else is capable of making me happy nor more fitted to wear a crown . |
| 16 | Your lust for her knew no bounds and when this loyal woman spurned you for her husband of twenty years you wreaked a terrible revenge ! ’ |
| 17 | Whatever you may have read or heard about their relationship still can not prepare you for her own account . |
| 18 | The young woman remembers how her mother would leave home at 5am day after day , and wait in the Marmoura forest near where the King used to play golf in an effort to plead with him for her husband 's life . |
| 19 | Ellen was sure now that she had him for her own and most likely thought it a fair return for her investment of time and trouble . |
| 20 | In his book Rest Days Hutton Webster has drawn attention to the passage in 2 Kings 4 : 23 , describing how , when the Shunammite woman wanted to go to the prophet Elijah to beg him for her son 's life to be restored , her husband objected , saying ‘ Wherefore wilt thou go to him today ? |
| 21 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 22 | At least , she could understand him for her uncle , later to be the 6th Duke , was deaf as well . |
| 23 | ‘ No names , no pack drill , but I know somebody who works for her and she was saying that Diana will be jolly pleased to have a lump sum to spend instead of having to go to him for her money . |
| 24 | She pushed it back , and wiped the same hand on the Beatrix Potter apron Harriet had made her for her birthday . |
| 25 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 26 | It was all Wilson could do to thank her for her concern . |
| 27 | Mr Browning wrote to thank her for her diligence and in doing so confirmed what she had been certain of , that Miss Henrietta had died . |
| 28 | Her neat footwork won her plaudits even from those who were inclined to knock her for her ‘ lack of substance ’ . |
| 29 | Then it would be her lunchtime , and probably another feed , and after that they 'd send her for her afternoon rest , and then collect the specimens and the data from him for the next day 's test session . |
| 30 | We exchanged the necessary platitudes and i thanked her for her care . |