Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 2 | I do n't want that to happen to my daughter so I smacked her for stealing and lying . ’ |
| 3 | The one that you bought her for Christmas . |
| 4 | Vortigern was so taken by her charms that he took her for his wife . |
| 5 | Nigel told Eleanor that he despised her for making a pass at him . |
| 6 | It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach . |
| 7 | I know of my hon. Friend 's deep interest in the affairs of the Province and I thank her for it . |
| 8 | Back in Australia I have a dog called Gabby and I take her for walks — I really miss her . |
| 9 | ‘ Only the truth , and I admire her for it . |
| 10 | No I 'm not , erm if I , if I take her for a long run . |
| 11 | She was finding the party more trying than she expected , and told me to come and get her if I needed her for anything … |
| 12 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 13 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 14 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 15 | For years , the only person who believed that Alfred Molina would ever become a star was his wife , actress Jill Gascoine , and he credits her for his new-found success . |
| 16 | But it was the correct question , courageous , and he admired her for it . |
| 17 | He sat with me and watched Jo Spence 's documentary on her fight against a serious illness and he admired her for her spirit and for using her work to get through her situation . |
| 18 | At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years . |
| 19 | Rory grimaced , remembering with more than a touch of bitterness Candy 's original theory that Adam had tried to spoil her pleasure in singing because on stage she was public property , and he wanted her for himself . |
| 20 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |
| 21 | I did n't want to accept defeat , to acknowledge that there was nothing I — nor anyone else — could do to help , ’ Ace replied , and it silenced her for a moment , as perhaps it was meant to do . |
| 22 | If he liked her for herself , it should n't . |
| 23 | Erm and she 's had seven youngsters and she 's brought them up and she a , on her own she 's had to bring them up cos he left her for another , another woman and erm she had the seven and she 's worked and fought hard cos she would n't ask for a darn thing and er they 're , they 're great those kids , they are , they 're a credit to her , you know , but it 's taken it out of her , she 's |
| 24 | He accepted this he was too young to do anything else — but he hated her for saying it . |
| 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 | The woman sent her surprise to PCs Rob Barrett and Phil Hogan at Brighton police station a week after they arrested her for stealing shoes . |
| 27 | Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . |
| 28 | He has two grown-up children , Dean and Roberta , by his first marriage to a former model , Tina , which broke up in a blaze of publicity after he left her for Stephanie . |
| 29 | Former model Carol Lawson , 42 , from Park Gate , Hants , refused to hang up on her relationship with neighbour Michael Hughes after he dumped her for another woman . |
| 30 | Susie smiled when I thanked her for putting up with me . |