Example sentences of "[prep] she for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was picturing her daughter , her beloved Angel , and as the pony stepped daintily over the cobbles she was counting the minutes until she was with her for the first time in nearly six months . |
| 2 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 3 | At first I was bitterly jealous of Rachel and only wanted Jacob to love me more than her to win something from her for the first time in my miserable life , but by the end of that blissful week , I found that I , unfortunately , had also fallen victim to his charms . |
| 4 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 5 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 6 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 7 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 8 | Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before . |
| 9 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 10 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 11 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 12 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 13 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 14 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 15 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 16 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 17 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 18 | Infected by his laughter the wife of the younger mandarin smiled , and Joseph looked at her for the first time . |
| 19 | Cheryl looked at her for the first time . |
| 20 | He shrugged , leaning back in his chair , smiling at her for the first time with that devastating smile which made her heart beat faster . |
| 21 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |