Example sentences of "be for her [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good .
2 A writer should suffer and all that — it would be for her own good in the long run .
3 ‘ This is for her own safety , as much as anything else .
4 They said it was for her own protection and they felt she might not surrender to the court .
5 Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ?
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