Example sentences of "[verb] she for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fishmonger blessed her for calling and wished her a continued pleasant time in their beautiful city . |
| 2 | She would lay the table her own way , not the French way , and no one would reprove her for putting the forks and spoons face up . |
| 3 | Thus a better strategy to employ is one that teaches her to wait and rewards her for doing so . |
| 4 | Of course , more fool her for having succumbed to the moment , but it was over and done with , and that was the end of it . |
| 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 | I do n't want that to happen to my daughter so I smacked her for stealing and lying . ’ |
| 7 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 8 | Around 400 leftwing priests , students and human rights activists staged a demonstration near Ms Aquino 's palace yesterday and condemned her for seeking US help to crush the coup attempt . |
| 9 | It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach . |
| 10 | While Mrs Drubb , with no more explanation than that she was a woman now and had better keep well away from men , had then scolded her for upsetting her mother . |
| 11 | The servant also said Mick phoned Jerry on Monday and blasted her for discussing their marriage in public . |
| 12 | Everyone admires her for working so hard , for thrashing herself relentlessly to entertain the troops and keep the fans happy . |
| 13 | The girls at work admired her for living with a man and not being married to him , but she could forgo that pleasure , she thought , for the baby 's sake . |
| 14 | He admired her for dealing with it so capably . |
| 15 | He condemns her for trying this trick , which is followed by a terrible fall downstairs in the course of an attempt to end her pregnancy . |
| 16 | Carter praises her for transcending the naturalistic , however — for taking off from it and creating something original . |
| 17 | He accepted this he was too young to do anything else — but he hated her for saying it . |
| 18 | Perhaps he hated her for inheriting most of the Havisham fortune . |
| 19 | He hated her for making it impossible for him to bring women home . |
| 20 | Oh , what a fool Fernando must have thought her for finding anything suspicious in a locked door . |
| 21 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 22 | Samy slaps her across the face and storms out , criticizing her for suggesting actions that could cost him his job . |
| 23 | The bald star had been left in tears earlier when fans jeered her for ripping up a picture of the Pope on a US chat show . |
| 24 | Samson had clouted her for burning it — the beginning of a long bad day . |
| 25 | And I reckon that he 's the sort of person who would turn into someone that would hit someo hit his his woman , because he takes her for granted enough as it is , and that , I reckon that 's how wife battering starts because the husband starts taking the woman for granted so much |
| 26 | A final problem was the potential conflict with her stepson , who blamed her for allowing Mr Allen 's problem to become so serious . |
| 27 | They blamed her for splitting up the family and on many occasions were abusive to her . |
| 28 | Prince Philip blamed her for bringing shame and ridicule on the Royal Family and ordered her to ‘ help maintain the dignity of the Crown ’ . |
| 29 | Deep down , he still blamed her for taking his mammy from him . |
| 30 | The rock thanked her for helping it . |