Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] she for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 2 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
| 3 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 4 | Did she agonizingly miss the faithless Finn who had deserted her for a cross-eyed creature ? |
| 5 | Most memorable was Tory , haughtily holding her very intelligent head in the air , but missing her husband , who had left her for a ‘ woman officer ’ . |
| 6 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 7 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 8 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 9 | No doubt about it , he meant to corner her for the evening . |
| 10 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 11 | To make his point , he had taken her for a burger , nothing more , and defied her to come on too strong about it . |
| 12 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 13 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 14 | One thing she had to say about Dad , at least he had prepped her for the world she was going to have to live in . |
| 15 | He had begged her for a doctor . |
| 16 | He continued to watch her for a moment , then murmured , ‘ I liked him . ’ |
| 17 | He wanted to take her for a ride . |
| 18 | ‘ He wanted to swop her for a guarantee that he would not be arrested ’ |
| 19 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 20 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |