Example sentences of "be [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her threat to leave the job had been an idle one , and whatever ill feeling there had been between her and Jenny must have been papered over . |
| 2 | He took himself off , illogically cursing Emily Groundwater ; if it had not been for her he would have been in a warm bed , with Bible Willie breathing beside him . |
| 3 | It might have been for her , but I thought she could have shown some gratitude , considering the work her stepmother and I had gone to . |
| 4 | If it had n't been for her I would n't be here … |
| 5 | Cecilia reflected on how massive the explosion must have been for her and that beautiful girl to have heard it up here in West Hampstead . |
| 6 | The station had always been for her a place instinct with glory ; its function beautified it immeasurably in her eyes . |
| 7 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 8 | If it had n't have been for her I would n't have been taking so many exams . |
| 9 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 10 | It had not been for her . |
| 11 | If it had n't been for her , he would n't even be here . |
| 12 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 13 | Convenience , that 's what it had been for her — little more . |
| 14 | To actually erm I 'd gather the evidence of how far down the line we are for her , saying that would that would be a a six monthly check . |
| 15 | You see how wrong you are about her , hmm ? ’ |
| 16 | A woman may know what a man 's intentions are towards her , long before he does himself , and can ‘ pick up ’ emotional inclinations which he has not yet recognized . |
| 17 | But all the photographs on the posters are of her ! ’ |
| 18 | And the more scared you are of her , the more perfect she becomes . |
| 19 | ‘ They 're for her ? ’ |
| 20 | You 're after her , are n't you ! ’ |
| 21 | when you 're behind her ; then it 's hands in armpits |
| 22 | Yes , and you 're like her , he thought . |
| 23 | You 're like her , are you ? ’ |
| 24 | It 's for you and your ex-wife to work out when you see the children ( assuming they 're with her ) . |
| 25 | He could n't be sure , but it had sounded like , We 're with her , now . |
| 26 | We 're with her , now . |
| 27 | You 're with her . |
| 28 | I just could n't bear oh — the way you look when you 're with her , relaxed and happy and younger . |
| 29 | There is so much of Keats that he admired — his pugnacity , his social concern , his gusto , his direct presentation of the moment 's phases of mind and moods of temperament — that one becomes aware of the impress of Thomas 's own mind and experience through his comments on Keats : ‘ Because he was then in the midst of his greatest period , and had to find vent for the pressure of poetry within him , he had to live away from Fanny Brawne , at Shanklin and Winchester : had he been near her long , at this time , love and poetry together , not to speak of the ‘ hateful literary chit-chat ’ of Hampstead , would have been insupportable . |
| 30 | She had not realized how close the birds and the snow and the deadwoods had been behind her . |