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Example sentences for "her for"

  • Oh, take care of her--take care of her for me!

  • The other gazed at her for a moment or two; he was trying to read the girl's heart, but he saw only the quiet firmness of her features.

  • He gazed at her for a moment, reading still more of her suffering.

  • Her father looked at her for a moment, said to himself--"There spoke a Colonsay!

  • As to her personal appearance, the lad might well have taken her for twenty, for she looked more of a woman than, tall and strongly built as he was, he looked of a man.

  • Malcolm looked at her for a moment, then turned his face towards the sea, and for another moment stood silent.

  • That emanation from her former and kinder self which had been produced by the closing recital of her sufferings was henceforth, at the signal of her last child's death, extinguished in her for ever!

  • After looking steadfastly on her for a moment, Ulpius approached and raised her from the earth.

  • She wished him, for the present, to "make up" to her for nothing.

  • With her pause, in fact, she had fairly made him press her for it.

  • I kept close to her: if I lost sight of her for a moment, it would be for ever!

  • I stood behind her, and gazed down on her for a moment.

  • That sort of regard, which he had proffered to her for so many faithful years, can't be flung down and shattered and mended so as to show no scars.

  • He stared aghast at her for a minute, as Macbeth might on beholding Banquo's sudden appearance at his ball-supper, and remained looking at her with open mouth, when that horrid Major Loder pulled her away.

  • The bailiffs were put upon me; I was taken as I was going out of his house; when I wrote to her for money, she said she was ill in bed and put me off to another day.

  • The Indian gentleman looked at her for a moment in silent scrutiny.

  • The poor slave of the house comes to her for comfort.

  • A week or so afterward, on one of the rare nights when Ermengarde found it safe to steal up to the attic, when she tapped on the door with the tips of her fingers Sara did not come to her for two or three minutes.

  • Take great care of her for me, Miss Minchin.

  • I must be very careful of her for a time.

  • Totty gave looks that were not unkind, but did not make advances; she was a little ashamed of the way she had behaved when Lydia came to her for help.

  • I used to hear just a word or two, but there's been no mention of her for a long time.

  • The pulse of life was what Charlotte, in her way, at home, had lately reproduced, and there were positively current hours when it might have been open to her companion to feel himself again indebted to her for introductions.

  • Do you think you could get it out of her for me--the probable length of her stay?

  • The daughter looked at her for an explanation.

  • Mr Dombey seemed, by his face, to think no worse of her for that.

  • He looked at her for a moment, looked till she dropped her eyes.

  • He would not think the worse of her for it.

  • Not that she was actually afraid of the man himself; he was too much afraid of her for that.

  • He stared at her for a moment, still laughing, but soon his face grew serious.

  • He would listen to her for hours at a time with a quiet smile on his face, scarcely saying a word himself.

  • Gania darted a terrible glance of wrath at her for this, but Nina Alexandrovna, mended matters a little when Gania introduced her at last.

  • He stood and looked absently at her for a moment, then turned, and took the road back to his hotel.

  • I never could look at her for a few moments together but I found her looking at me--in an odd thoughtful manner, as if I were an immense way off, instead of being on the other side of the small round table.

  • I think the better of her for it,' said I, indignantly.

  • Greif looked at her for a moment, and then knelt beside her and kissed her hands.

  • She saw clearly, now, that Greif was indispensable to her for Hilda's happiness, and she comprehended that he was worthy of the girl.

  • He had thought of her for years, but never in this way; she had dwelt in his heart a long time but he had never felt anything like this.

  • For my part I feel obliged to her for asking it.

  • Both seemed to look to her for directions.

  • She was sure of a pleasant reception; and her friend seemed this morning particularly obliged to her for coming, seemed hardly to have expected her, though it had been an appointment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her book; her brother; her brow; her chair; her course; her eyes; her forehead; her former; her heart; her husband; her knees; her lips; her marriage; her pocket; her return; her side; her that; her the; her uncle; her voice; heraldic term; here and; here are; here described; here must; hereafter shall