Example sentences of "her for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brothers , who now had good jobs , took her for meals where she could eat her fill of exotic sea foods and rich desserts . |
| 2 | Bruce , 47 , said she happily accepted the £125 he paid her for furniture , china and jewellery . |
| 3 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 4 | She had hopes of an East India merchant taking it off her for £13,000 , and the shock of it falling through brought her to her senses , and to a realization of the depth of the hole she had dug for herself . |
| 5 | Rosa had been crying then , with the pieces of the plate her mother had tried to smash over her head in front of her at the table , and her mother had put the back of her hand to her daughter 's cheek , as if to test her for fever . |
| 6 | ‘ I take her milk in , I do n't ask her for reports , ’ she said as Scott started up the steps . |
| 7 | Another tangled virgin called on her for help against a dragon , called on her though she had thought that her time was past and the dragons had all departed . |
| 8 | One can imagine how ordinary people coming to her for help would have gone away cheered and instructed by this sane visionary . |
| 9 | So it was natural for Sarah to turn to her for help in her troubles — and last year 's annual royal holiday pilgrimage to Balmoral seemed the perfect opportunity . |
| 10 | And once , as she filmed in WPc uniform in London 's Shepherd 's Bush market , a woman who had been mugged thought she was the real Bill and begged her for help . |
| 11 | When Thasos , under siege by Kimon , appealed to her for help , she offered ‘ secretly ’ ( but the offer was evidently everybody 's secret at Athens ) to invade Attica and thereby to relieve Thasos indirectly : Thuc. i. 101 . |
| 12 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |
| 13 | I asked her for help — I wanted to go back to Scotland ! |
| 14 | But she was gone before I could finish asking her for help , borne away by three identically dressed musketeers , waving her whip in the air , and lost in the crowds again . |
| 15 | ‘ We have made Ygelda the new Steward , and she says it will be nothing new to her for Gwion was always running to her for help . ’ |
| 16 | When Tallis rode up this narrow track she sent stones tumbling to the glittering water below her , and at a certain height she stopped to listen to the sound , recognizing it from a time in childhood , from a time when she had summoned images of another world , and Harry had called to her for help . |
| 17 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 18 | The finished clothes were delivered to the hotel on her last morning in Paris only an hour before Bob Storrington was due to collect her for lunch . |
| 19 | Kit knelt in front of Ariel and cried ; he asked her for forgiveness . |
| 20 | And again had to wonder what the dickens was the matter with her for Ven , in no way similarly affected , moved and , taking casual hold of her arm , began to lead her across the road . |
| 21 | Opo would ease between her legs and take her for rides . |
| 22 | All I 'm saying is at the moment , she ca n't apparently cope with the demand on her for bags . |
| 23 | She glanced at her for signs of irony and saw none . |
| 24 | Came a day when your mother walked along the strand at Starr Hills and knew that tomorrow , or the next day , or the day after that , the stupid peasants would come and take away your grannie to the witch-finder , prick her for witch-marks , watch her till she maddened from sleeplessness , then swim her in the river . |
| 25 | She had curled up in the deep old window seat , the velvet coverlet from the bed wrapped about her for warmth , and had drifted in and out of an uneasy sleep . |
| 26 | Neva 's heart nearly burst within her for pride and joy at being chosen by such a noble knight . |
| 27 | I was more able to forgive her for past hurts because , as Nancy Friday says , I needed to do so . |
| 28 | And if her head warned her that he only wanted her for sex , her heart ignored the warning and opened itself joyfully to his tender passion . |
| 29 | We have him for history and her for English . |
| 30 | And her for English ? |