Example sentences of "[verb] she for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outspoken Mrs Clinton , an assertive Leftish lawyer , has already become a campaign issue because of a scathing remark she made about women who ‘ stay at home and bake cookies ’ and because Mr Clinton says he will consider her for a job in his Cabinet once he wins the White House . |
| 2 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 3 | The fishmonger blessed her for calling and wished her a continued pleasant time in their beautiful city . |
| 4 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 5 | This , Emecheta explains , is a very strong goddess of the Ibos , so strong that Hausa soldiers dare not attack her for fear of being made impotent . |
| 6 | I did n't recognise her for some time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'll do , I only want her for breeding , ’ the nasty woman said . |
| 9 | My regard for your daughter has in no way diminished ; I still want her for my wife . |
| 10 | Thus a better strategy to employ is one that teaches her to wait and rewards her for doing so . |
| 11 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 12 | ‘ That 's why I used her for so many of the taped examples for my lectures , Folly . |
| 13 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |
| 14 | ‘ What do you need her for ? |
| 15 | If Duke Egeus did not ask Hermia to choose between Demetrius and life in a nunnery in Act 1 , there would be no point pressing her for an answer four acts later . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found . |
| 18 | Then she turned to the red bitch and thrashed her for her negligence , calling her lazy , useless , good-for-nothing . |
| 19 | I invited her for tea . |
| 20 | After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her . |
| 21 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |
| 22 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Mr MacDuff agreed that the jury should award fair damages to compensate her for what she had gone through . |
| 25 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 26 | He realized with a stab of regret he had never once seen her face clearly , and if he went back to seek her out he would n't know her for sure among the many daughters of the chief . |
| 27 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 28 | ‘ We found her for you . ’ |
| 29 | He wants her for himself . |
| 30 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |