Example sentences of "[vb pp] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 2 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |
| 3 | After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her . |
| 4 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 5 | ‘ Had Diana been within 10 miles of Windsor Castle on the day of the fire , they would have blamed her for starting it , ’ admitted a senior royal source last night . |
| 6 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 7 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 8 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 9 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 10 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 11 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 12 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 13 | For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’ |
| 14 | Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears . |
| 15 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 16 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 17 | Unlike Napoleon 's mother , Elena Petrescu left no memorable quotation or hint that peasant-wisdom had perhaps already prepared her for her world to be turned downside-up again . |
| 18 | Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside . |
| 19 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 20 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 21 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 22 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 23 | Jane believes that her mother was often stressed to the point of despair at this time , ‘ … that she suffered all the torments and tribulations of every working mother without anything in her background , education or make-up having prepared her for such an emotional wrenching . ’ |
| 24 | Nothing in Australian society nor in the easy commerce between don and undergraduate which she had witnessed and occasionally shared with Michael at Cambridge , had prepared her for this . |
| 25 | The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced . |
| 26 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 27 | Nothing in her life had prepared her for this wanton fire , burning and aching inside her . |
| 28 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |
| 29 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 30 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |